50¶È»Ò publishes open access books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints. We helped to pioneer open access book publishing, first piloting open access publication for books in 2011.
We publish open access books across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine (STM), and humanities and social sciences (HSS). In 2020, we achieved the milestones of publishing our 1000th open access book and reaching 100 million chapter downloads across the whole portfolio.
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Publishing an open access book with us can lead to 10 times more downloads, 2.4 times more citations, 10 times more online mentions, and 61% more countries than publishing a book through the non-open access route (source: 