The winning authors will share a cash award of $20,000, and the winning publishers will share a grant for $30,000 to support “the immediate open access publication of at least two new books.” ...

MIT Press’s digital approach has broadened readership of monographs, but questions remain on whether its “idealistic” open-access model can change the publishing industry. The COVID-19 pandemic fueled ...

The UMass Lowell Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) is a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the UMass Lowell University Library. The OAPF is designed to engage, encourage and enable ...

Marking a milestone in its role as a leading open access (OA) book publisher, Taylor & Francis has announced 'Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism ...

Institutions can strategically support OA by investing in university presses, institutional repositories and collaborative publishing platforms. Successful examples include the Directory of Open ...

Open Access & Self Archiving Open access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. Open access content is open to all, with no access fees.

Through collaboration among the college, Purdue University Libraries and Purdue University Press, the Press will make these materials accessible via open access beginning in mid-2020 to students, ...

The open approach is bolstered by Cambridge Prisms, a series of fully open access journals that map out and build connections in cross-disciplinary subject areas to address real-world challenges.

In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.

If you're looking to unload some books, Chicago's only non-profit bookstore has a new location in Logan Square that's gladly accepting donations.

Libraries have so much to offer, but their opening hours can make access difficult for those with busy lives. A Tasmanian program to allow after-hours access is winning over book fans, but unions say ...