[3] Open access is when academic research is made freely available online for anyone to read and re-use.
Major publishers of open-access books include, for example, Taylor & Francis,[10] MDPI,[11] and MIT Press.
[12] The OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) online library and publication platform provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic books, mainly in the humanities and social sciences.
[14] A report released in 2015 by the UK's main funding body for research, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, states the importance of open access monographs:[15] "Monographs are a vitally important and distinctive vehicle for research communication, and must be sustained in any moves to open access.
"[16] A 2019 survey has shown that a majority of authors agree that all future scholarly books should be made available via open access.