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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 [...]

Librarian perspective: Q&A with Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University

University of New South Wales Library joins Opening the Future at CEU Press

CEU Press is pleased to announce that the library at University of New South Wales (UNSW) is now a subscriber member of Opening the Future. UNSW has opted for the Editors' Choice package of backlist books. This means that their staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to 50 different eBooks on subjects ranging from medieval Europe, to East European culture, economics, and [...]

University of California signs up to Opening the Future program through CDL

CEU Press and Liverpool University Press are pleased to announce that nine University of California (UC) campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to their Opening the Future collective funding programs. Under the terms of the deal, nine University of California campuses will receive unlimited, perpetual access to curated selections of the two publishers’ backlists: the [...]