Open Access

Open Access Publishing
Open Access Fund
Open Access Books
Open Access Chapters
Queries

Open Access Publishing

We offer the option of making your book available through Gold Open Access immediately on publication. This is a form of Open Access publication where the author, the author's institution or a funding body, pays for the cost of publication upfront, in return for the publication being immediately accessible with no barriers to access.

When we publish a book Open Access, we ensure that the manuscript goes through exactly the same rigorous peer-review process that we use for all of our manuscripts. Similarly, we give Open Access titles the same marketing and promotional opportunities as our other titles.

We usually set an Open Access fee at approximately our break-even point on a project and we only make a profit from selling a printed version alongside the Open Access version. Hence it is in our best interests to put the same efforts into promoting your Open Access work as our traditional model publications.

Fees vary according to the complexity of a project but, for a guideline, please assume £80 per 1,000 words or approximately £20 per manuscript page. It is likely that the true cost will be less but we cannot guarantee this until we have seen the manuscript.

If you would like to discuss this option, please contact Anna Roderick to discuss the next steps.

We recognise that Open Access is one potential solution to increasing the accessibility of academic research and also recognise that there are concerns about publishing fees restricting the ability of academics with less funding from being able to publish if fees are set too high. 

You can read more about Open Access in Tommi's blog post.

Open Access Fund

In 2023 we launched the Channel View Publications / Multilingual Matters Open Access Fund. We have committed to fully funding at least one Open Access publication each year to support authors who wouldn’t otherwise be able to fund Open Access publication for their work. These books will be published online in an Open Access format with no access restrictions or paywalls under creative commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

This new fund aims to increase visibility, dissemination, use and impact of top-quality academic research, particularly for research originating in Low to Middle Income Countries and scholars working outside of traditional academic institutions. Open access publications can be shared freely around the world with no restrictions and remain permanently available in digital format. We hope that by removing the barriers from publications, authors can benefit from achieving increased impact across the world and greater engagement with their research.

All our Open Access publications are subject to the same rigorous peer review process and high publishing standards as our regular publications.

How you can contribute to the fund
We are offering our authors the opportunity to donate their royalties to this fund, with a commitment to a matching contribution of 100%, up to a maximum of £10,000 per year. These author donations will go towards additional Open Access publications over and above the ones we are funding ourselves.

If you would like to donate your royalties to the fund, please contact Tommi Grover.

2024 Open Access Publication
For 2024 we have chosen a book from the Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation series:

Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón:
Memory and New Ways of Knowing: Weaving Narratives from the Armed Conflict in Colombia

The 2025 Open Access Fund 
If your book is already under contract and you’d like it to be considered for the 2025/2026 Open Access Fund please get in touch with Anna Roderick and she will let you know how to submit your book to be considered for the fund.

Open Access Books


Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa edited by Leketi Makalela and Goodith White 



 


 



 

Multilingual Online Academic Collaborations as Resistance edited by Giovanna Fassetta, Nazmi Al-Masri and Alison Phipps 

 








 
Choosing a Mother Tongue by Corinne A. Seals 












Femininities in the Field edited by Brooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel 












English Language Teaching in South America edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli and Luciana C. de Oliveira 





 




 
A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies by Durk Gorter, Jasone Cenoz












Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings edited by Siv Björklund and Mikaela Björklund










The Impact of Tourism in East Africa by Anne Storch and Angelika Mietzner








 



Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching edited by Carl S. Blyth and Joshua J. Thoms










English in Post-Revolutionary Iran by Maryam Borjian










 

Second Language Pronunciation Assessment edited by Talia Isaacs and Pavel Trofimovich










 

Open Access Chapters

 

Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education edited by M. Garrett Delavan, Juan A. Freire, Kate Menken
Chapter 11. Ivana Espinet, Kate Menken and Imee Hernandez: A Case of DLBE Gentrification and Tools for Engaging Stakeholders in How to Do Better
Chapter 12.  Nelson Flores: Nice White Parents and Dual Language Education 
Chapter 13. Deborah Palmer, Emily Crawford, Lisa Dorner, Claudia Cervantes-Soon and Dan Heiman: Countering Gentrification through Critical Consciousness: Recommendations and Success Stories for DLBE Educators  
Chapter 14. Katie A. Bernstein, Kathryn I. Henderson, Sofía Chaparro and Adriana Alvarez: Creating DLBE Programs that Center Equity in the Face of School Choice Policies 

Language Education in a Changing World by Rod Bolitho and Richard Rossner
Chapter 1. The Crucial Role of Language in Education
Chapter 10. Language in Education, and in Teacher Education: Towards New Paradigms





The Local Turn in Tourism edited by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Introduction: Embracing the Local Turn in Tourism to Empower Communities  
Chapter 1. Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism




Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts edited by Lisya Seloni and Sarah Henderson Lee
Chapter 4. Keiko Hirose and Chris Harwood: Factors Influencing EFL Writing Instruction in Japan from a Teacher Education Perspective






Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts edited by Nicola McLelland and Hui Zhao 
Nicola McLelland and Hui Zhao: Introduction: Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts – Asian Perspectives
Chapter 6. Hui Zhao: Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers’ Attitudes Towards Beijing Mandarin
Chapter 8. Alexandra Grey: How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market Forces



Assessing Speaking in Context edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Alfred Rue Burch
Chapter 6: Rating and Reflecting: Displaying Rater Identities in Collegial L2 English Oral Assessment
by Erica Sandlund and Pia Sundqvist





Pedagogical Translanguaging edited by Päivi Juvonen and Marie Källkvist
Chapter 1: Pedagogical Translanguaging: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives. An Introduction
by Päivi Juvonen and Marie Källkvist
Chapter 3: Engaging Teachers and Researchers in Classroom Research: Issues of Fluidity and Time in Two Multi-sited Projects
by Marie Källkvist and Päivi Juvonen
Chapter 4: Mapping Teacher Beliefs and Practices About Multilingualism: The Development of the MultiBAP Questionnaire
by Pia Sundqvist, Henrik Gyllstad, Marie Källkvist and Erica Sandlund
Chapter 8: (Trans)languaging Mathematics as a Source of Meaning in Upper-Secondary School in Sweden  
by Åsa Wedin 

Queries

If you have any queries about our Open Access titles please contact Anna Roderick