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University of Southampton signs up to Opening the Future at CEU Press

We are pleased to announce that the University of Southampton Library has joined as a subscribing member of the CEU Press Opening the Future programme. This commitment forms part of its support for sustainable and high-quality open access publishing and equitable education opportunities. The University has opted for the ‘OA Supporter Membership’ package. Some institutions may not wish to [...]

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 [...]

University of Cambridge becomes new Opening the Future member

CEU Press and COPIM are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Cambridge is one of the latest subscriber members to Opening the Future. Cambridge has signed up to the Editors' Choice package. This means that their staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to 50 different eBooks on subjects ranging from mediaeval Europe, to human rights, Jewish studies, [...]

CEU Press announces 8th & 9th OA titles to be funded by Opening the Future

Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce the selection of two more open access books that have been funded entirely by library members of the Opening the Future (OtF) programme. Due for release in July 2022 the two new books will be freely available to download or read online. Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, [...]

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 [...]

OA Monographs: Making Mandates Reality - workshop recording

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 [...]

Opening the Future program welcomes JSTOR as a hosting partner

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 [...]