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Opening the Future funds scholarly presses to publish new OA monographs, while libraries that participate simultaneously benefit from access to closed content.

For a modest annual fee your library gets DRM-free, unlimited access to a closed-access selection of the press' backlist, with perpetual access after three years. The press uses the membership revenue solely to produce new OA monographs, moving towards an affordable, sustainable model for academic publishing and creating a collection of OA books that are open for the world.

Our Publishers

These presses are offering packages of books on topics ranging from pre- and post-communist Russia, and the history and politics of the Central European region, to award-winning books on Latin American culture and language, Rio de Janeiro and guerilla war in Peru, to books on African history, Namibia, the African diaspora and black experience in America and elsewhere.

"For a small press publishing in a specialist area of study our progress in publishing OA books has far exceeded anything we hoped to achieve when we first launched Opening the Future."

–Kat Baier, Head of Sales, Marketing and Operations, CEU Press

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Central European University Press, Liverpool University Press, Michigan State University Press, Boydell & Brewer and Basler Afrika Bibliographien are grateful to all of their subscribing libraries for their ongoing support. Click the button below to see the institutions that are all members of the Opening the Future programme at one or several of the presses. Each library member is benefiting from special backlist access and/or is supporting the presses on their OA frontlist journey.

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