For Thursday of Open Access Week, we’d like to highlight a relatively new OA initiative that we are supporting – CEU Press: Opening the Future. Central European Press specializes in the history of the region, communism, and transitions to democracy. It publishes approximately 25 new monographs per year. Opening the Future is a collective subscription model that is meant to achieve the dual objectives of increasing access to collections and supporting open access book publishing. UT Libraries pays a small annual membership fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a selection of the well-regarded CEU Press backlist, with perpetual access to those titles after three years. The membership revenue is used to produce new OA monographs with a goal of making their entire frontlist available OA. We are excited about this model because it provides a pathway for open access to books that doesn’t rely on large book publishing charges to authors.
For more information about our support for other open access initiatives and infrastructure, please see our Open Access LibGuide.
