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Alessandra Tosi (born 1968, Turin, Italy) is a scholar specialised in Russian literature and a publisher devoted to the promotion of Open Access in academia. Alessandra completed her BA in Modern Languages with cum laude at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1992. with a PhD in Russian studies at the ［[University of Cambridge]］ she specialized in nineteenth-century Russian fiction, reception and gender studies. In 2008 she co-founded [Open Book Publishers] which she continues to serve as the managing director. Aeessandra Tosi is Life Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Main Books and Edited Volumes

 * 2012. Women in Nineteenth Century Russia: Lives and Culture, Edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi. Open Book Publisher. ISBN 978-19-06-92466-9.
 * 2008. [A.M. Belozel'skii-Belozerskii i ego filosofskoe nasledie], Edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-02-30-55323-1.
 * 2007. Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700 - 1825, Edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-02-30-55323-1.
 * 2006. Waiting for Pushkin: Russian Fiction during the Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825), Alessandra Tosi, Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-42-01829-7

Open Book Publishers
The idea stemmed from Alessandra’s first hand experience of the difficulties of getting her book on a specialist area of Russian literature even considered by university presses; when it was eventually published, it had a tiny print run with an exorbitant retail price – very few people (and virtually no-one in Russia) could read the research she had worked so hard to produce. She realised that many of her colleagues were having a similar experience. There had to be a way to make academic books available to all readers.