monographs

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2013 IFLA/Brill Open Access Award Winner Selected

Press Release | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Brill | May 31, 2013

IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce that Open Book Publishers, Cambridge (United Kingdom) is the winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing. Read More »

Knowledge Unlatched Enables a Further 78 Books to Be Open Access

Press Release | Knowledge Unlatched | March 1, 2016

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the 'unlatching'* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe. This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide...

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On Monographs, Libraries And Blogging: A Conversation With Duke University Press, Part One

Adeline Koh | Chronicle of Higher Education | April 9, 2013

This is part 1 of the ninth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. Read More »

Open Access

Cecy Marden | Before It's News | July 1, 2013

Imagine, if you will, open access as a train, running up and down the length of the country, travelling anywhere track is laid, delivering papers, books, ideas to all and sundry. Research funders have the opportunity to man the signal boxes and set the open access movement’s direction of travel. Read More »

Open Access: Brought To Book At Last?

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | July 18, 2013

A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf Read More »

University of California Press Expands into Open Access with Innovative Journal and Monograph Programs

Press Release | Collabra, Luminos, UC Press | January 20, 2015

UC Press today announces Collabra and Luminos, two new open access programs for journal and monograph publishing.... Instead of retaining all funds generated from author article processing charges (APCs), UC Press directly compensates reviewers and editors for their work on the journal; reviewers and editors can then opt to pass these earnings on to an APC waiver fund that benefits other authors or to their institution’s open access fund.... At launch, Collabra will focus on three broad disciplinary areas: life and biomedical sciences, ecology and environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences.