Indeed interesting. Just curious to know how they "organize peer review on request"... Best, Jan Houben
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 at 13:08, Vitus Angermeier via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > We had a very good experience publishing our Puṣpikā volume with HASP > <https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/?lang=en>. They are an open access > publisher focusing on Asian studies. They do not charge OA fees, organize > peer review on request, and offer printed versions as print on demand for a > very moderate fee. More details on their services: > https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/publishing/for_authors. > > > Further fair open access (FOA) options are collected at the FOASAS > website, run by Dominik Haas and myself: https://foasas.org/#journals. If > you know of any other good OA publishers not yet listed here please get in > contact with us. > > > Best wishes, > Vitus Angermeier > > > > Am 04.06.23 um 06:50 schrieb McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY: > > The Australian National University Press (ANU Press) is a leading > open-access publisher. They don't charge to publish book per se, but they > do require authors to use one of their approved copy-editors. I have > followed this path twice - both for 500-page volumes. The total cost for > each volume was about US$4000. > > Hope this helps > > McComas > > > *McComas Taylor, *Associate Professor, Reader in Sanskrit > College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University > Secretary-General, International Assoc. of Sanskrit Studies > > ------------------------------ > *From:* INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> on behalf of Arlo Griffiths via > INDOLOGY <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, June 3, 2023 3:59 PM > *To:* INDOLOGY <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] about Routledge and Open Access fees > > Dear colleagues, > > For several years now I have observed colleagues publishing their > monographs or edited volumes with Routledge, asking myself why any > colleague should wish to entrust such a ruthlessly profit-oriented > enterprise with their scholarly work, while there are more sympathetic > commercial publishers not to mention quite a number of non-commercial > publishers willing and able to publish Indological research. > > Anyhow, I wish to report a concrete bad experience. Several colleagues > participating in the ERC project DHARMA have contributed to a volume > published earlier this year in the Routledge Worlds series. Since the ERC > requires research produced thanks to its funding to appear in Open Access, > it seemed necessary to us to accept paying the publisher's Open Access fees > in order to ensure that the contributions by said colleagues would appear > in Open Access. My employer has paid £3.750,00 funding to the publisher > late last year as "Fees for making three chapters Open Access in the book > The Angkorian > World." See the attachment. From the budget of the ERC project > Archaeospace, initiated by my colleague Damian Evans (incidentally, one of > the editors of the volume), we paid the same sum once more for three other > chapters, though I was not involved in that decision. The book was > published on 28 April ( > https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953) > and yet not a single chapter has so far been made available in Open Access > by the publisher. They would seem to have taken European tax payers' money > and run with it. > > Yesterday one of the editors wrote to me: "I received word from Routledge > that they are working on making the six chapters open access. I am not sure > why this is taking so long but it is pretty much par for the course with > this publishing house. Avoid them in the future is my advice." I could not > agree more with this advice. > > Best wishes, > > Arlo Griffiths > EFEO > > > > > > > > > > <https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953> > The Angkorian World > <https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953> > The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest > ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by > leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural > sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and > explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and > accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying > premodern Asia. The volume’s first of six sections provides his > www.routledge.com > ** > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing > [email protected]https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > ––––––––––––––––––––––– > > *Dr. Vitus Angermeier* > PI at the FWF Project "Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South > Asia" > University of Vienna > Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies > <https://stb.univie.ac.at/en/> > Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 2.1 > 1090 Vienna, Austria > > T: +43-1-4277-43516 ][ [email protected] <[email protected]> > ][ @jalaukika > ORCİD: <https://twitter.com/jalaukika>0000-0002-8505-6112 > <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-6112> ][ at HCommons > <https://hcommons.org/members/vangrmr/> ][ at Academia.edu > <https://univie.academia.edu/VitusAngermeier> ][ Personal Website > <https://homepage.univie.ac.at/vitus.angermeier/> > ––––––––––––––––––––––– > > > Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia > <https://epidemics.univie.ac.at/> > > > The Initiative for Fair Open Access Publishing in South Asian Studies > <https://foasas.org/>, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- *Jan E.M. 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