Schott Music launches Open Access platform

Authors, institutions and editors of musicological publications will be able to "publish books and essays quickly and transparently", writes Schott Music.

All texts published on the "Schott Campus" platform are open access, i.e. freely accessible. At the same time, the publisher will offer books for sale throughout the German and international book market as paperbacks, hardbacks and e-books, as well as making them available to libraries. Schott Music uses the distribution and technology infrastructure of the publishing service provider tredition for the platform.

Each publication undergoes a multi-stage quality assurance process that has been developed together with GfM. At the launch of the platform, Schott Music is offering selected texts from its program. GfM, which has supported Schott Music in setting up the platform, is planning to publish its own series of publications via Schott Campus

According to Peter Hanser-Strecker, publisher and Chairman of the Management Board of Schott Music, the offer is intended to enable "a contemporary form of publishing" and guarantee a "high degree of independence with the usual high publishing quality".

More info: www.schott-campus.com