openEAI’s Open Innovation series brings the principles of Open Access to book publishing, reflecting the need for european project reports, core scientific research and educational material to be distributable and usable in as free and open a manner as possible. Books published in this series are released under liberal copyright licenses such as those used in Open Access journals, with electronic copies being available free of charge and print copies being purchasable at minimal cost. Instead of charging for access, the production and startup costs are met upfront by the editors’ or authors’ funding agency.

Open Innovation is especially suitable for

• Research project reports. Research funding agencies will often mandate that final project reports be disseminated as widely as possible. The Open Innovation series can provide project reports with a high profile, together with long-term electronic archiving and low-cost print distribution. Publication fees can be budgeted into project costs.

Other examples of use-cases for the Open Innovation series include:

• Conference proceedings. The motivations for Open Access apply just as much to the proceedings of scientific conferences as to the contents of scientific journals. The Open Innovation series provides a cost-efficient solution to the problem of securing Open Access for your proceedings, while providing attractive, low-cost print copies to those who desire them.
• Textbooks and educational material. Educators at all levels, from primary school teachers to postgraduate lecturers, benefit from having high-quality teaching material that can be freely shared, adapted and re-used. Interested educational authorities can sponsor the production of books whose electronic versions can be adapted to need by teachers, with low-cost print versions of the standard text also available.

Guidelines for authors and editors

Editor-in-chief: Dr. Juan Carlos Augusto, School of Computing and Mathematics and CSRI, University of Ulster

Editors:

• Jean Roberts, Phoenix Associates, United Kingdom
• Jilei Tian, Nokia
• Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany
• Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer, Germany