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OA Monographs: Making Mandates Reality - workshop recording
A COPIM workshop in partnership with RLUK - video link and speaker slides, 23 June 2022RecordingCOPIM - RLUK | Open Access Monographs: Making Mandates RealityAbout this eventThis half-day workshop galvanised a much-needed sector-wide conversation on OA monographs in the context of the UK’s policy landscape. Expert panels of speakers from the library, publishing and policy worlds outlined the [...]
Opening the Future program welcomes JSTOR as a hosting partner
JSTOR has joined the Opening the Future program as a hosting partner for Open Access ebooks published by Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press. These ebooks will be freely available on JSTOR, in addition to the publishers’ websites and other platforms offering Open Access ebooks. Making the titles available on multiple platforms ensures that users can discover and [...]
Loughborough University joins Opening the Future at CEU Press
Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce that the library at Loughborough University is now a subscriber member of Opening the Future. Loughborough are subscribing to the Political Science package of backlist books. Through this, staff and students now have unlimited access to 50 different eBooks on the political, economic, social and cultural changes of the Central and [...]
Librarian perspective: Q&A with Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University
We recently caught up with Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University, for a Q&A on OA monographs and library collection policies.Iowa State University Library assists beyond the university faculty, staff and students. How does OA help serve its obligations towards the state of Iowa?Iowa State University is a Land Grant [...]
University of New South Wales Library joins Opening the Future at CEU Press
CEU Press is pleased to announce that the library at University of New South Wales (UNSW) is now a subscriber member of Opening the Future. UNSW has opted for the Editors' Choice package of backlist books. This means that their staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to 50 different eBooks on subjects ranging from medieval Europe, to East European culture, economics, and [...]
University of California signs up to Opening the Future program through CDL
CEU Press and Liverpool University Press are pleased to announce that nine University of California (UC) campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to their Opening the Future collective funding programs. Under the terms of the deal, nine University of California campuses will receive unlimited, perpetual access to curated selections of the two publishers’ backlists: the [...]
Library perspective: balancing investments and sustainability in Open Access
The COPIM Opening the Future team recently caught up with Annie Johnson (formerly of Temple University Libraries, now at the University of Delaware Library) for a Q&A on balancing investments and sustainability in Open Access. Annie Johnson was until this month the Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications at Temple University Libraries and Press in [...]
Announcing two more Open Access books funded by Opening the Future library membership programme
Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce the selection of two new open access books, due for release in July 2022, when they will be freely available to download or read online:Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union, R. Eugene Parta. The account of a remarkable Cold War operation to assess the impact of Western radio broadcasts on Soviet [...]
#RLUK22: Making Open Access Books Work Fairly
Our colleagues at the COPIM project recently ran a workshop at the RLUK22 conference. They described the work they are doing in lots of areas around OA monographs, including the Opening the Future pilot that we at Central European University Press are participating in. You can watch a recording of the session, and there are links to the slide decks and abstract below.Video SlidedecksAvailable [...]
Announcing the publication of CEU Press’s fifth Open Access book
Announcing the publication of CEU Press’s fifth Open Access bookfunded by Opening the Future library membership programme Everyday Life under Communism and After: Consumption and Lifestyle in Hungary, 1945–2000Tibor ValuchCentral European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new book this week: Everyday Life under Communism and After: Consumption and Lifestyle [...]