Language Science Press


Language Science Press is an open access scholarly publishing house specializing in linguistics. This publishing house was formally set up in 2014, in a context of perceived overcharging by traditional publishing houses.
“Writing books, reviewing books for publishers, and copying them afterwards takes a lot of time. This time is usually paid for by state institutions or funding agencies. The publishers do not pay for it. On the contrary, some even require money from the authors to keep the book prices low. When libraries buy our books, the state pays a second time.”

Language Science Press publishes books on a central storage and archiving server in combination with print on demand services. Language Science Press uses the Creative Commons CC-BY license as a standard. As of October 2017, 40 books had been published.

Setup

Language Science Press is organized in series. As of October 2017, there are 20 such series.
The publisher's Advisory Board decides upon series proposals. Authors submit their manuscripts to a specific series. The publisher's website states that each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers determined by the series editors.
The source code of books is available from a GitHub repository.

Partnerships

Language Science Press has a partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.
The publishing house maintains a list of supporters shown online. Notable supporters include Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker.