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Two new books funded at Liverpool University Press via OtF

Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce the funding of two new open access books thanks to the existing supporters, and recently joined new library members of the Opening the Future (OtF) programme. Published over October and November 2024, our new OA books will be freely accessible and readable online, and will also be available in print.Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political [...]

Opening the Future marks International OA Week 2024!

To mark International Open Access Week 2024 (21st-27th October) we’d like to share some relevant updates since the last OA week back in 2023 for Opening the Future (OtF) at large, and for our two current partner presses CEU Press and Liverpool University Press. Opening the Future and CommunityThe theme of this OA week is ‘Community over Commercialisation’, a subject that our project has, [...]

Queen’s University Belfast subscribes to Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press Press are pleased to announce that Queen’s University Belfast is a new subscribing member to their Opening the Future programme.The library has boosted their local collection by subscribing to the Modern Languages package. This means that staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to 37 different eBooks on subjects including: Hispanic and lusophone [...]

The University of Edinburgh subscribes to Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press are pleased to announce that The University of Edinburgh is a new subscribing member to their Opening the Future programme.The library at The University of Edinburgh has decided to support the press’ OA commitment by selecting an OA Supporter package without backlist access.As with all Opening the Future members, the library’s subscription fees are funding new frontlist [...]

University of Sussex becomes Opening the Future member at Liverpool University Press

The Library at the University of Sussex is the latest to subscribe to LUP’s backlist of Modern Languages books. As members they will get DRM-free access to 37 of the publisher’s eBooks on Hispanic culture and languages, including literature, cinema, politics and history. And after three years membership, Sussex will retain perpetual access to the eBooks.LUP’s OA monograph funding programme will [...]

University of Surrey joins Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce that the library at the University of Surrey is the latest subscriber member to Opening the Future. Surrey has subscribed to the Modern Languages Package which means their staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to two monograph series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, and Liverpool Latin American Studies. In [...]

LUP release 2 more books funded by OtF

A further two books in LUP’s Opening the Future (OtF) open access programme have reached their funding targets: A City Against Empire by Thomas K. Linder and Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain by Dean Allbritton are now available as part of LUP’s renowned Liverpool Latin American Studies and Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series.A City Against Empire combines [...]

University of Tennessee, Knoxville becomes Opening the Future member at both Liverpool University Press and CEU Press

Liverpool University Press (LUP) and CEU Press are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a new member of the Opening the Future (OtF) programmes at both publishers. The library has chosen to sign up to: * At CEU Press: the Library Selection Package, which contains 50 eBooks selected by an independent panel of librarians on the history of the [...]

Cardiff University is now an Opening the Future member at both CEU Press and Liverpool University Press

CEU Press and Liverpool University Press (LUP) are pleased to announce that the library at Cardiff University is now a member of the Opening the Future (OtF) programmes at both publishers. Staff and students at Cardiff have access to 100 eBooks at CEU Press on the history of the Central and Eastern European region, culture, and politics. And at LUP they can now access the Modern Languages [...]

University of Washington becomes new Opening the Future member at Liverpool University Press and CEU Press

Liverpool University Press (LUP) and CEU Press are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Washington is a new member of the Opening the Future (OtF) programmes at both publishers. The U of Washington library has chosen to sign up to: At LUP: the Modern Languages Package which contains 37 eBooks on 'Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures' and [...]