OA Progress

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 18 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. For more detailed information about our financial targets and projections, please see our resources page.

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.

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Hana Josticova, Mariupol 2013-2022: Stories of Mobilization and Resistance
Summer 2024 (online OA & print)


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Azra Hromadžić, Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River
Summer 2024 (online OA & print)


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Cathie Carmichael, The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World
DUE OUT: Summer 2024 (online OA & print)


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Andrey Makarychev and Sergei Medvedev, Biopower in Putin’s Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives
DUE OUT: Summer 2024 (online OA & print)


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Ferenc Jankó, From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region
Spring 2024 (online OA & print)


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Sergiusz Bober (ed), Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies: Exploring the Right of Self-Determination
2024 (online OA & print)


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Constantin Ardeleanu, Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860
2024 (online OA & print)


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Jan Mrázek (ed), Escaping Kakania: Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia
Published Spring 2024 (online OA & print)


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László Borhi, Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes
Published Spring 2024 (online OA & print)


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Éva Petrás, The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philanthropist: The Story of Töhötöm Nagy
Published Winter 2023 (online OA & print)


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Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar (eds), Ukraine's Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion, The Russia-Ukraine War, Volume One
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)


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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)


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Lizaveta Kasmach, Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)


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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)


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Mária M. Kovács, The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary
Published Nov 2023 (online OA & print)


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Catherine Horel,  Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914: Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters
Published Fall 2023 (online OA & print)


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Mileta Prodanović, An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade: A Visual Chronicle of the Milošević Era
Published Summer 2023 (online OA & print)


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Yudit Kiss, More Nights Than Days: A Survey of Writings of Child Genocide Survivors
Published Summer 2023 (online OA & print)


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András Bozóki, Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)


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Jenő Szűcs (author), Gábor Klaniczay, Balázs Trencsényi, Gábor Gyáni (eds.), The Historical Construction of National Consciousness: Selected Writings
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)


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Joseph Malherek, Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968
Published Sept 2022 (online OA & print)


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Robert J. Abbott, Policemen of the Tsar: Local Police in an Age of Upheaval
Published Sept 2022 (online OA & print)


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R. Eugene Parta, Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
Published Fall 2022 (online OA & print)


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Tibor Valuch, Everyday Life under Communism and After: Consumption and Lifestyle in Hungary, 1945–2000
Published March 2022 (online OA & print)


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Georgiy Kasianov, Memory Crash: Politics of History In and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s
Published February 2022 (online OA & print)


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Tomasz Kamusella, Words in Space and Time: Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe
Published December 2021 (online OA & print)


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Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Constructing Identities over Time: “Bad Gypsies” and “Good Roma” in Russia and Hungary
Published December 2021 (online OA & print)


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Dagnosław Demski & Dominika Czarnecka (eds), Staged Otherness: Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939
Published January 2022 (online OA & print)



Library feedback

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 retail 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 new programme and we’re working hard to make sure it is efficient for our library partners.


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