My apologies for the radio silence. I just stumbled across the University of California Press’ Luminos publishing project. From their FAQ page: “Luminos is UC Press’ new Open Access (OA) monograph publishing program. It will make a version of the digital edition of scholarly monographs available free of charge to anyone around the world. In addition to giving readers access to the work without price barriers, OA monographs will be available for online viewing as well as for download. Print copies will be available for purchase for those who prefer to read in this way.”

I’ve already found several books to add to my to-be-read list and I’m only partway through the catalog. I know I’m a little late to the party on this. I knew about MIT Press’ open access program, which has been around for about 30 years, but hadn’t investigated to see how many others there might be out there and was happy to see quite a few I was interested in reading.

The following isn’t meant to be comprehensive list of open access books, but hopefully it gives you an idea of what’s out there if you haven’t explored yet. And if it adds to your TBR stack, I’ll apologize in advance.

• University of California Press Luminos
• MIT Press open access
• Cornell Press Open (a Donald Kagan title there!)
• UCL Press open access
• Open Access at University of Michigan Press
• Lever Press
• Open Access books and journals at Liverpool University Press
• Open Book Publishers
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Punctum Books
• Ubiquity Press
• AU Press