Language Science Press

Language Science Press
Founded 2013 (2013)
Country of origin Germany
Headquarters location Berlin
Distribution The main means of distribution is electronic
Key people Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Revenue not-for-profit publisher
Official website http://langsci-press.org/

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.[1]

“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.”[2]

Language Science Press publishes books on a central storage and archiving server in combination with print on demand services.[3][4] 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.

  • Studies in Diversity Linguistics
  • Textbooks in Language Sciences
  • Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
  • Classics in Linguistics
  • Computational Models of Language Evolution
  • Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax
  • Studies in Laboratory Phonology
  • African Language Grammars and Dictionaries
  • Contemporary African Linguistics
  • Morphological Investigations
  • Conceptual Foundations of Language Science
  • Language Variation
  • Open Generative Syntax
  • Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
  • EuroSLA Studies
  • Implemented Grammars
  • Niger-Congo Comparative Studies
  • Open Slavic Linguistics
  • Phraseology and Multiword Expressions
  • Studies in Caribbean Languages

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.[5]

The source code of books is available from a GitHub repository.[6]

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[7]. Notable supporters include Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Müller, Stefan. 2012. A personal note on Open Access in linguistics. Journal of Language Modelling 0(1). 9–39.
  2. ↑ "Motivation". Language Science Press. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  3. ↑ "Language Science Press: von der Idee zur Umsetzung in drei Jahren". Community und Geschäftsmodell für Open Access Monografien, Stefan Müller, Sebastian Nordhoff, Debora Siller, 8. Januar 2016, FU Berlin
  4. ↑ "Information on purchasing hard copies of Language Science Press books". Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  5. ↑ "'Setup' section of the publisher's website". Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  6. ↑ Public repository of Language Science Press
  7. ↑ LangSci Supporters
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