Exploring the impact of Pledge to Open - Research Information

"Pledge to Open (P2O) is a collaborative funding model designed to work with the academic community to open important, key issue-based collections of scholarly book titles, so they are free to read, and free to publish open access for the authors.

By helping to fund open access (OA) book publishing through this collaborative funding initiative, participating institutions help disseminate important research to ensure its widest possible reach, including benefiting authors and readers from lower income countries.  Through the collaborative funding approach, the intention is twofold: to remove barriers to publishing open access – by removing the requirement of a Book Publishing Charge – and remove barriers to accessing the latest research, maximising the potential for the book content to reach a wide and diverse audience and drive real world impact...."