Top 10 Social Sciences Open Access Books

Posted on: August 16, 2022

Our open access books have been leading the way in 2022, with titles and chapters published across all subject areas, as well as subject-specific and institutional funded collections.

Take a look at our top 10 most used titles from across the Social Sciences, or browse our full open access collection.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese
Medicine
Edited by Vivienne Lo, Dolly Yang,
Michael Stanley-Baker

Discourses of Global Queer
Mobility and the
Mediatization of Equality
By Joseph Comer

Queer Methods and Methodologies
Intersecting Queer Theories and
Social Science Research
By Catherine J. Nash, Kath Browne

Co-Production and Co-Creation
Engaging Citizens in Public
Services
Edited by Taco Brandsen,
Trui Steen, Bram Verschuere

Sacred Civics
Building Seven Generation Cities
Edited by Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman,
Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
Edited by Max Gallien, Florian Weigand

A Handbook of Management Theories
and Models for Office
Environments and Services
Edited by Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek,
Vitalija Danivska

Indigenous Data Sovereignty
and Policy
By Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie
Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear

Everyday Automation
Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies
Edited by Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton,
Minna Ruckenstein

Subtle Agroecologies
Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature
Edited by Julia Wright, Nicholas Parrott

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Why choose open access?

Read what our authors have to say:

Elisa Piras, co-editor of Democracy and Fake News

“My co-editor Serena Giusti and I, we had the opportunity to make our book available for free and we thought that this could be a helpful resource for students and young researchers who might be interested in the topic! Also, we hoped to reach journalists and professionals who are not familiar with academic books.”

Kelly-Ann Allen, co-editor of Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy

Kelly-Allen started a Twitter thread about their reasons for choosing open access, here is a snippet from it:

“Building Better Schools, a free-to-use resource for schools & educational researchers made it in the #Top10 #openaccess books of 2021. Publishing open access was a strategic & essential decision for us. We chose to publish #openaccess because we wanted #BuildingBetterSchools to be used and shared. We wanted as many schools as possible to benefit from the resource & the expertise of the 72 contributors.”