Publishing a book is a significant milestone in a researcher’s career, and can increase your visibility, credibility, and recognition. When you publish a book, you can explore ideas and concepts in depth, and elaborate on your findings and recommendations.
What does it take to publish your work as a book? Discover our guide covering the various stages and requirements, as well as tips and advice, templates, author benefits and more.
You’ll need to include a detailed description, intended audience, co-author names and the expected timeframe.
Once you've signed your contract, get your free Research Round-up, an in-depth Literature Review of up to 30 PÕ¾ÊÓƵ articles or chapters on your publication topic. .
It usually takes 2 to 6 months to produce your book once we've accepted your final manuscript.
Our books can be fully open access, paid-for or hybrid, with a mixture of open access and paid chapters.
Publishing your book open access makes it more visible and discoverable:
It's free to publish a paid-for book, but there are fees to cover the cost of open access publishing. Take a look at each publishing brand's guidelines to learn more.
Many organisations require you to publish your research open access. It’s worth checking with your supervisor and colleagues to understand your organisation’s approach. They may be able to cover your open access fees.
We also offer a range of book agreements to support authors with open access fees.
To find out if your fees are covered, take a look at our funding agreements.
PÕ¾ÊÓƵ has a family of book publishing brands that cover a wide range of topics: Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Apress, Atlantic Press, and J.B. Metzler.
Springer publishes over 2,900 journals and 300,000 book in English and German, across science, technology, medicine, humanities and business.
Palgrave Macmillan is a world-class publisher of books and journals with more than 175 years’ experience in the humanities, business and social sciences.
Atlantis Press is a global open access publisher of scientific, technical and medical content. Atlantis Press has launched and developed several book series containing more than 120 books (co-published with PÕ¾ÊÓƵ) and 17 proceedings series with over 1,200 proceedings.
Apress focuses purely on technology titles and is best for meeting the information needs of IT professionals, developers, and tech enthusiasts worldwide.
J.B. Metzler covers arts, media and languages and publishes only in German. It is one of the most important humanities publishers, producing respected and acclaimed reference works, handbooks and textbooks.
We offer editing, translation, data presentation and formatting services to help you at each step.
