The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) celebrates the successful launch of 100 open access books in the humanities and social sciences through the Path to Open initiative. Hosted by JSTOR, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled a mass push toward digitizing just about everything, from e-books to online courses. That trickled down to the scholarly publishing industry, most notably making journal ...

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) this week announced the winners of the inaugural 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. In the history category, ...

Open-access publications can generate significant revenue, despite hesitancy among universities to embrace free and open online access to research, a new report finds. The Association of University ...

Last year, more people in more places read a range of Taylor & Francis high-energy physics books thanks to an innovative crowd-funded open access (OA) initiative. Taylor & Francis has confirmed it ...

The UMass Lowell Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) is a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the UMass Lowell University Library. The OAPF is designed to engage, encourage and enable ...

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Springer Nature has signed its first ever institutional open access (OA) book agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Library. The agreement will cover a broad range of book titles ...

T he open-access policies now being adopted by governments around the world, most notably in the U.S., the U.K., and the E.U., are designed to remove paywalls from the publication of publicly funded ...

Funded by Andrew W. Mellon and the National Endowment for the Humanities foundations as part of the Open Book Program, a collection of classic books, published between 1964 and 1998 are now available ...

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem ...