Four 鶹ƵUniversity Press authors and their forthcoming books will embark on the Path to Open this year.
鶹ƵUniversity Press is participating in , a groundbreaking collaboration between university presses, libraries and JSTOR, to promote sustainable open-access publishing of high-quality scholarly eBooks and increase meaningful engagement with them. Through the program, will be publishing new books in the humanities and social sciences each year that will be available to a growing group of Path to Open libraries for three years and then become open access to anyone, anywhere. 鶹ƵUniversity Press’ books will be among 300 new titles added to the collection from an array of university presses. This community-supported funding model will assist libraries’ efforts to increase cultural diversity in their holdings, reduce the financial risk of open-access publishing for small and medium university presses like 鶹ƵUniversity Press, help our authors reach a global audience and advance equity of access to underserved researchers around the world.
“鶹ƵUniversity Press is confident that removing barriers to access can significantly boost the readership and the impact of our authors’ books,” says Catherine Cocks, director of 鶹ƵUniversity Press. “In fact, eBooks on JSTOR have already been used more than 43 million times in every country in the world. They have reached nearly 12,000 institutions, some of which might not be able to afford these texts, including high schools and community colleges.”
The following 鶹ƵUniversity Press authors and their forthcoming books will embark on the Path to Open this year:
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