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University of Chicago joins Opening the Future at both CEU Press and Liverpool University Press
The Library at University of Chicago recently became a subscriber member of CEU Press and Liverpool University Press’s OA monograph funding programmes.Chicago has chosen to subscribe to three packages of backlist eBooks, enhancing their digital collection by 136 titles in total. With this subscription, staff and students now have access to 36 books from the LUP monograph series Contemporary [...]
Liverpool University Press releases first OA book funded by Opening the Future - OUT NOW
Liverpool University Press (LUP) is pleased to announce the publication of its first academic monograph funded entirely by the Opening the Future library membership scheme. In May we announced that LUP had reached the funding threshold to produce two new OA books, and we are pleased that the first of these is now freely available worldwide to read and download from the LUP website at [...]
University of Exeter joins Opening the Future OA books programme at Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP) is delighted to announce that the library at the University of Exeter has become the latest institution to subscribe to its Opening the Future membership programme. Their membership will see Exeter staff and students benefit from unlimited, perpetual access to two backlist series of LUP monographs on contemporary Latin American culture, language, politics, [...]
University of Salford joins Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press
We are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Salford has joined the Liverpool University Press (LUP) Opening the Future initiative. With this membership, staff and students at the University gain access to titles from two series of LUP’s books: 'Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures' and 'Liverpool Latin American Studies’. In total they’ll be able to read 37 [...]
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 [...]
King's College London joins Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press
We are pleased to announce that the library at King’s College London has recently become a new subscriber to the Opening the Future membership programme at Liverpool University Press (LUP). Granted a Royal Charter in 1829, King’s have a long-standing reputation in the humanities, law, science, psychiatry, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and the social sciences.With their new Opening the Future [...]
West Virginia University joins LUP’s Opening the Future programme
The Libraries at West Virginia University (WVU) are the latest to subscribe to Liverpool University Press’s OA monograph funding programme.WVU’s history dates back to 1867 and is now home to students from 112 nations. The WVU Libraries encompass seven libraries statewide, including a Health Sciences Library, Law Library, and the West Virginia and Regional History Center. Onsite collections [...]
Announcing the first Liverpool University Press OA books funded through Opening the Future
The team at Liverpool University Press are thrilled to announce that our Opening the Future library membership programme has reached the threshold needed to begin funding its first two titles, made fully open access through subscribing libraries’ memberships. Opening the Future is a collaboration between Liverpool University Press and COPIM, with support from LYRASIS and Jisc, and was launched [...]
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 [...]