Berghahn Open Access

Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.

In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors' funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.

Additional information regarding our open access policies can be found here, under the “Open Access” tab. If open access status is required for your publication, please contact your Berghahn editor.

A selection of more than 200 Open Access Books available on this site

After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)

Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate, The

The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Brunet, L.-A. & Karamouzi, E. (eds)

Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Diamonds and War

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

De Vries, D.

Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Martin, L. M.

Impotent Warriors

Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity

Kilshaw, S.

Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Kalb, D. (ed)

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Social Anthropology in the Arab World

The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline

Alajmi, A., Cantini, D., Maffi, I., & Melliti, I. (eds)

Sweden after Nazism

Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War

Östling, J.

Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The Train Journey

Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

Gigliotti, S.

Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective, The

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)

Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

Browse the full list of Open Access books here

Introducing the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we add 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries and institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the publication costs of these books, making them available as Open Access.

The collection includes titles from the Forced Migration series as well as the Integration and Conflict Studies and the Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology series, among others.

Berghahn Open Anthropology

In partnership with Libraria

Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria, a group of researchers who are also supporting a number of other publishers hoping to adopt this model should the pilot prove successful.

This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts that was held at MIT. BOA-S2O is in its third year and has added a new journal, Social Anthropology, in 2022, and Ethnologia Europaea in 2024.

Researchers can support the BOA-S2O initiative by contacting their libraries directly or filling out a recommendation form.

For more details, please read our Frequently Asked Questions.

The 2025 collection includes the following 16 journals: