Open Access Policy
Everyone hates publishers for making things so expensive - readers, libraries and authors, in particular. And there is a fine line to be trodden when trying to prioritise 'getting the ideas out there' in a commercial world.
Triarchy tries to make books as cheap as possible and the prices of our more academic titles are generally less than half of those charged by the leading international academic publishers.
But our resources are limited and we cannot afford to lose money consistently on the books we publish. So we look for a balance as follows:
a) We encourage authors to write as much as possible and to post that writing widely and for free - provided it has not been included in a book published by us or another publisher. We will publish it for free on our website and suggest authors also post material on their own sites and other aggregating websites. The intention is that this will help to disseminate their ideas, get them known and help to publicise their books. If you want to write an essay or an article and give it away free to readers, we support that, provided it is not writing that we are investing in and publishing.
b) We cannot afford to allow authors to post chapters or whole books online for free or open access. If authors do that, then we lose some of the already small market for their books, lose revenue and eventually go out of business (which is bad for disseminating ideas).
We invest heavily in your book (mainly in terms of editorial time, but also in the work required to get books catalogued, listed, priced and distributed internationally) and need to recoup that cost if we can.
In response to the argument that making chapters and books available free online increases paid sales --- that is not our experience. Posting excerpts of up to 350 words or so is the best way to interest potential readers and buyers.
If you need to have Open Access to your book because your institution requires it, there are two options:
1. Find a publisher that offers that facility free of charge (some large mainstream publishers can afford to do that)
2. Talk to us about paying Triarchy an Open Access fee to cover the value of lost sales. [This is the only situation in which we will ever consider accepting a payment from an author or their employer/institution.] Many publishers now offer such an arrangement. Typically, we charge a fee of around £250 to allow a chapter in an edited collection to be included in an online repository, and a fee of about £2,500 for a whole book to be made freely available online.
Triarchy tries to make books as cheap as possible and the prices of our more academic titles are generally less than half of those charged by the leading international academic publishers.
But our resources are limited and we cannot afford to lose money consistently on the books we publish. So we look for a balance as follows:
a) We encourage authors to write as much as possible and to post that writing widely and for free - provided it has not been included in a book published by us or another publisher. We will publish it for free on our website and suggest authors also post material on their own sites and other aggregating websites. The intention is that this will help to disseminate their ideas, get them known and help to publicise their books. If you want to write an essay or an article and give it away free to readers, we support that, provided it is not writing that we are investing in and publishing.
b) We cannot afford to allow authors to post chapters or whole books online for free or open access. If authors do that, then we lose some of the already small market for their books, lose revenue and eventually go out of business (which is bad for disseminating ideas).
We invest heavily in your book (mainly in terms of editorial time, but also in the work required to get books catalogued, listed, priced and distributed internationally) and need to recoup that cost if we can.
In response to the argument that making chapters and books available free online increases paid sales --- that is not our experience. Posting excerpts of up to 350 words or so is the best way to interest potential readers and buyers.
If you need to have Open Access to your book because your institution requires it, there are two options:
1. Find a publisher that offers that facility free of charge (some large mainstream publishers can afford to do that)
2. Talk to us about paying Triarchy an Open Access fee to cover the value of lost sales. [This is the only situation in which we will ever consider accepting a payment from an author or their employer/institution.] Many publishers now offer such an arrangement. Typically, we charge a fee of around £250 to allow a chapter in an edited collection to be included in an online repository, and a fee of about £2,500 for a whole book to be made freely available online.