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Language Science Press
Founded2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Country of originGermany
Headquarters locationBerlin
DistributionThe main means of distribution is electronic
Key peopleMartin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Revenuenot-for-profit publisher
No. of employees2
Official website[1]

Language Science Press is an open access scholarly publishing house specializing in linguistics. This publishing house was set up in order to contribute to solving an economic issue in scientific research: double and triple payment and copyrights.[1] “Writing books, reviewing books for publishers, and copying them afterwards takes a lot of time. This time is usually paid for by state institutions or funding agencies. The publishers do not pay for it. On the contrary, some even require money from the authors to keep the book prices low (...). When libraries buy our books, the state pays a second time.” [2]

The solution proposed by Language Science Press consists of publication on a central storage and archiving server in combination with print on demand services.[3][4] The copyright is granted by the Creative Commons CC BY license, which allows the work to be printed and figures to be reused, provided the original work is cited. The translation rights remain with the author. The authors can additionally put a PDF file of their work on their web page.

Setup

The publisher's Advisory Board decides upon series proposals. Authors can submit their manuscripts to a certain series. The publisher's website states that each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers determined by the series editors.[5]

The source code of books is available from a GitHub repository.[2]

Future plans are also announced, including possibilities for open reviewing.[6]

Partnerships

Language Science Press has a partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.

The publishing house maintains a list of supporters shown online.

See also

References

  1. ^ Müller, Stefan. 2012. A personal note on Open Access in linguistics. Journal of Language Modelling 0(1). 9–39. Available: https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/oa-jlm.html
  2. ^ "Motivation". langsci-press.org.
  3. ^ "Language Science Press: von der Idee zur Umsetzung in drei Jahren". Community und Geschäftsmodell für Open Access Monografien, Stefan Müller, Sebastian Nordhoff, Debora Siller, 8. Januar 2016, FU Berlin https://www2.hu-berlin.de/fupush/documents/fupush-workshop_mueller.pdf
  4. ^ "Information on purchasing hard copies of Language Science Press books". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "'Setup' section of publisher's website". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ "Plans for later developments as set out on the publisher's website". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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