The University of Pennsylvania renews their Opening the Future membership at CEU Press

Posted by Kira Hopkins on May 28, 2024 at 1207

CEU Press are pleased to announce that the University of Pennsylvania has renewed their initial three year membership of their Opening the Future programme.

The library has continued to boost their local collection by subscribing to the Library Selection package on top of their original subscription to the History Package. 

This means that staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to a library-curated selection 50 different eBooks on Central and Eastern Europe. The library now also has perpetual access to the books from their initial subscription package, which focussed on the socio-political and cultural history of the broader region. 

As with all Opening the Future members, the University of Pennsylvania has enhanced their eBook collection with titles relevant to the university’s research and teaching needs - and at the same time their membership fees are funding new frontlist titles in OA format so that everyone, including their users, will benefit from the global open collection it contributes to. We are very grateful for their ongoing support.

Through the generous support of member libraries like them all over the world, CEU Press has already been able to publish many new OA books (with more funded and planned) which are freely available for download from Project MUSE, OAPEN, JSTOR and other open platforms. You can read about, and access, all the OA books on the progress page: ceup.openingthefuture.net/forthcoming

If you would like to see how your library might similarly enhance your digital collection by becoming a member of Opening the Future, you can read more about the programme, and sign up in just a few clicks at ceup.openingthefuture.net or sign up directly via Lyrasis or Jisc through your normal invoicing workflow.