CEU Press has been running the Opening the Future OA monograph funding model for over two years. During that time, we have been able to publish 28 new OA frontlist titles solely through the support of our library members, of which the details are available below. We are grateful to all our library supporter members for enabling this. We have several more titles forthcoming, confirmed as funded via OtF, details below.
As this model works differently to many subscription/collective monograph funding models, there is no in-built threshold: instead frontlist titles are opened up as soon as the funds become available. Every single subscription counts towards enabling the publication of a forthcoming book as OA.
If your library would like to help tip the balance and enable the next book to come out, please visit our membership options page: ceup.openingthefuture.net/packages/
OA books we’ve already published or that are in the OtF pipeline
These books are all listed on DOAB and are freely available to download from OAPEN, Project Muse, the ORL, and JSTOR, as well as via De Gruyter, ProQuest, EBSCO, and other partners.
Augusta Dimou, Contesting Copyright: A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans
May 2025 (online OA & print)
Kārlis Kangeris, Rudīte Vīksne, Uldis Neiburgs, Beyond Nazi Crimes and Soviet Propaganda: The Salaspils Camp in Latvia, 1941–1944
March 2025 (online OA & print)
Philip J Lowe, Thomas A Lorman, Daniel E. Miller, Governing Divided Societies: Habsburg Austria’s Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic
March 2025 (online OA & print)
Klaus Richter, Jasmin Nithammer, Anca Mândru, The Great Depression in Eastern Europe
February 2025 (online OA & print)
Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar (eds), Russia's Imperial Endeavor and Its Geopolitical Consequences, The Russia-Ukraine War, Volume Two
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)
Lizaveta Kasmach, Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)
edited by Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, Sabrina P. Ramet, Anti-Fascism in European History: From the 1920s to Today
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)
Mária M. Kovács, The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary
DUE OUT Nov 2023 (online OA & print)
Catherine Horel, Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914: Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)
Mileta Prodanović, An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade: A Visual Chronicle of the Milošević Era
Published Summer 2023 (online OA & print)
Yudit Kiss, More Nights Than Days: A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors
Published Summer 2023 (online OA & print)
András Bozóki, Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)
Jenő Szűcs (author), Gábor Klaniczay, Balázs Trencsényi, Gábor Gyáni (eds.), The Historical Construction of National Consciousness: Selected Writings
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)
Joseph Malherek, Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968
Published Sept 2022 (online OA & print)
Robert J. Abbott, Policemen of the Tsar: Local Police in an Age of Upheaval
Published Sept 2022 (online OA & print)
R. Eugene Parta, Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)
Tibor Valuch, Everyday Life under Communism and After: Consumption and Lifestyle in Hungary, 1945–2000
Published March 2022 (online OA & print)
Georgiy Kasianov, Memory Crash: Politics of History In and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s
Published February 2022 (online OA & print)
Tomasz Kamusella, Words in Space and Time: Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe
Published December 2021 (online OA & print)
Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Constructing Identities over Time: “Bad Gypsies” and “Good Roma” in Russia and Hungary
Published December 2021 (online OA & print)
Dagnosław Demski & Dominika Czarnecka (eds), Staged Otherness: Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939
Published January 2022 (online OA & print)
Avoiding double-dipping
All new frontlist titles are at first planned as traditionally-sold ‘closed’ books. But as soon as we have accrued enough library support to fund a book, we change the metadata before any sales are made and our distributors move the book to an OA status. This happens well before the book is published: so far, we’ve estimated between 2-3 months.
Please note that GOBI now indicates if a book is available OA and does so as soon as our metadata is changed to OA status. You are still able to purchase print or digital editions as usual.
Incorporating feedback
We welcome your views on how long this lead time should be for you, or any other thoughts and suggestions. This is still a very new programme and we’re working hard to make sure it is efficient for our library partners.
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