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 is a publishing model that makes research freely available online for anyone to read, share and reuse. Research published open access can reach a wider audience, gaining more citations and ...

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 ...

The University of North Carolina Press is leading an experiment to significantly lower the cost of producing scholarly books -- an important step toward a sustainable open-access publishing model for ...

MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly books available to the public for free.

Monday marked the beginning of International Open Access Week, but the Open Educational Resources Consortium at the ...

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 ...

Taylor & Francis is delighted to announce the results of Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 2023, with support pledged to convert over 50 book titles to open access (OA). Titles to benefit from this support ...

$50,000 Prizes Award Four Open Access Books in the Humanities and Fund Future Open Access Publications "These authors and publishers exemplify the promise of open access: top-notch scholarship with ...

Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees. For more information about open ...

Marking a milestone in its role as a leading open access (OA) book publisher, Taylor & Francis has announced Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism as ...

IDS Researcher Robert Chambers books (authored or co-authored) have been made open access for all to read for free. We are thrilled to announce that the IDS Participation, Inclusion and Social Change ...