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#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 Liverpool 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 on [...]

University of Nottingham joins Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

We are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Nottingham has joined the Liverpool University Press Opening the Future initiative. With history stretching back to 1881, the University of Nottingham has attracted high profile visiting lecturers including Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and H G Wells. It now boasts 250,000 alumni from 195 different countries.With this new [...]

What is the difference in metrics used for books and journals?

This week, the Opening the Future team at COPIM started making a series of short videos from a recent Zoom chat with Lorraine Estelle, project director of COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources).We posed Lorraine a few topical questions on the use of metrics in measuring OA books and asked her for insights on the pitfalls, pros and cons.In the first of our videos below, [...]

The University of Sheffield joins Liverpool University Press’s Opening the Future programme

The Library at The University of Sheffield (TUoS) 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, TUoS will retain perpetual access to the eBooks.LUP’s innovative OA monograph [...]

Still confused about OA? OtF in 60 seconds

Still confused about OA? We recently challenged the COPIM project to explain our Opening the Future collective funding model in only 60 seconds... and here's the result! Click on the thumbnail below to play the video... div.polaroid { width: 250px; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19); text-align: center; } div.container { [...]

University of Liverpool joins Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press (LUP) is delighted to announce that the University of Liverpool’s own library is the latest to subscribe to our Opening the Future collective funding programme. The University was founded in 1881 and now boasts 400+ Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses with over 22,000 students on campus. Staff and students at Liverpool will now get unlimited, perpetual access to [...]

University of St Andrews is the latest Opening the Future member at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press (LUP) is delighted to announce that the University of St Andrews Library is the latest to subscribe to our Opening the Future collective funding programme. Founded in the 15th century, St Andrews is Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world. The University’s 10,000+ students (a mixture of postgraduates and undergraduates) and [...]

University of Rhode Island joins LUP’s Opening the Future programme

The University Libraries at University of Rhode Island (URI) are the latest to subscribe to Liverpool University Press’s OA monograph funding programme.With history dating back to 1888, the URI has nearly 18,000 students representing 48 states and 76 countries. The library has chosen to subscribe to a package containing two monograph series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, and [...]

European University Institute are early subscribers to Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press

We are pleased to announce that the European University Institute (EUI) Library is the latest library to join the Liverpool University Press (LUP) Opening the Future initiative.Founded in 1976 and with over 1000 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, the EUI is a leading institute in Europe dedicated to the research of social sciences and humanities. With this membership, their staff and [...]

New article in 'Research Information' on OA monographs and Opening the Future

An article co-authored by Anthony Cond, CEO of Liverpool University Press (LUP), was published recently in a leading industry magazine called Research Information. In it, Anthony and co-author Professor Martin Eve (Birkbeck, University of London and a COPIM project lead), recap some of the emerging funding models in open access monograph publishing. They note that the funding landscape is [...]