About Boydell & Brewer

We are a mission-based publisher of scholarly works, our head office is in Suffolk, England and an office in Rochester, New York where we publish as a University Press in partnership with the University of Rochester. Always independent, we were founded 55 years ago by two British medieval scholars and became employee-owned in 2015. Over the years the business has grown substantially, we now publish over 200 books per year and have over 6000 books in print, over half of those also as ebooks. The majority of our titles are high-quality, peer-reviewed, academic monographs, but we do have a small list of trade titles as well. 

About OtF at Boydell

Open access is a powerful tool to make research accessible to the widest possible audience, and we have OA chapters and books dating back to 2002.

We also have a long-standing interest in making sure that, as well as removing barriers to reading new scholarship, we also remove barriers to publishing it openly. To this end, we have participated in other collective funding schemes such as Knowledge Unlatched and Path to Open, and have set up an OA author fund to support early-career scholars. 

We see participating in Opening the Future as a natural addition to our current work - allowing us to fund more titles in a selection of our lists. Opening the Future enables us to continue diversifying and strengthening the paths available to our authors to publish their work open access.

Books funded via Opening the Future revenue go through the same editorial and peer review processes as our books that are for sale/funded via other means.

About our backlist selection

We are offering multiple packages, focussing on the medieval world, performance and music, and politics and economics in Africa.

We have chosen these areas because they represent the broad subject strengths at Boydell & Brewer, and also topics that we want to make as widely accessible as possible.