About Open Access at LPP

Lived Places Publishing devotes 5% of all revenue generated to funding open access publishing. 

Open access at LPP is entirely publisher-funded at no cost to the author. In other words, there are no "book processing charges" for authors. Nor are there "membership" fees or "subscription" fees for institutions to cover the associated costs of open publishing. 

The 5% of our revenues devoted to open access publishing are allocated based on our average per title book production cost. In the interest of full transparency, we publish average book production costs here on our website (updated every 6 months).  

Lived Places Publishing authors can select to have their book considered for open access. Based on funding available for open access and the considered opinion of our advisory board and publisher, titles enter into our open access program.  

Please see our complete Open Access Policy for more information. 

Open License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

When a book is published open access at LPP, we use the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license as defined by Creative Commons. 

For titles published under this license, you are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

• NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.