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Our Story

Bloomsbury Academic began as an open access book publisher in 2008. Since then the division has grown to become a leading global independent publisher focusing on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences with offices in London, New York, Sydney and New Delhi. We have one of the largest open access book portfolios, with several hundred titles available through our rapidly expanding programme. We are committed to evolving this programme as well as adapting to change as the demand for open access increases.

Our Mission

We publish works of excellence and originality, selecting the highest quality content for publication in print and a range of digital formats. Through our open access publishing programme we are committed to the widest possible dissemination of research, whilst providing subject expertise and professional publishing services to authors, funders and institutions.

Find out more about our open access programme

Visit our open access programme pages to learn about our OA publishing options and policies.

Access Bloomsbury open access books

  • All Bloomsbury open access titles are made available via a dedicated open access collection on Bloomsbury Collections.
  • Open access titles are also typically included in our standard subject collections on Bloomsbury Collections for discovery purposes.

Open access book metadata

Digital preservation

All Bloomsbury eBooks and digital resources, including all open access content, are preserved with Portico.

Price adjustments

While open access books are included in Bloomsbury Collections subject collections for discovery purposes, they are not included in title counts used to determine collection fees. Where books are made open access retrospectively, the cost of any subject collection in which they appear is adjusted down proportionally.

Contact Us

We’re always happy to discuss open access issues with you, and to work with you to enable open access options for researchers at your institution.

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