Open access publication in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is well established, though still a marginal percentage of the market, while in the humanities and social sciences, open publication is still in its infancy, without a firmly planted business model. Hear how Dean Smith, the publisher of Cornell University Press, navigates the sometimes fraught and binary positions of librarians, publishers, and authors when talking about open access, and how Cornell University Press is working to develop sustainable open business models through experimentation with grants and workflows.

This episode explores grant funding for open books, partnerships with services like MUSE Open, discovery, and metrics, and highlights one university press’s efforts to open up its catalog and the ways those efforts are paying dividends of greater use and increased visibility.