The Research Services Team has launched its Open Access monograph competition 2024/25, which closes on Friday, 31 January 2025. Unfunded monograph authors from any University faculty can enter the competition, as long as they will soon be publishing a monograph or published one on or after 1 October 2023. 

Entries will be judged by a representative panel led by Professor James Evans, Associate Dean for Research in Humanities. Winners will receive funding from the Library to make their monograph Open Access, meaning anyone can access and read their research for free. The Library’s Research Services Team will contact successful applicants in early April 2025.

The OA Monograph competition was set up to help researchers publishing long-form outputs to make their work Open Access. While researchers wanting to publish journal articles Open Access potentially have access to multiple funding streams, funding for OA monographs has been historically been comparatively limited.  

Since the competition started in the 2019/20 academic year, Research Services has published 24 monographs. You can go to Library 2023/24 Open Access monograph competition: winning entries for details of the winners from last year’s competition.

To enter, authors need to complete this application form by Friday, 31 January 2025.

Questions about the competition should be directed to libraryresearch@manchester.ac.uk