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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 [...]

Loughborough University joins Opening the Future at CEU Press

Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce that the library at Loughborough University is now a subscriber member of Opening the Future. Loughborough are subscribing to the Political Science package of backlist books. Through this, staff and students now have unlimited access to 50 different eBooks on the political, economic, social and cultural changes of the Central and [...]

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 [...]