JSTOR and University Press Partners Announce Path to Open Books Pilot | SSP Society for Scholarly Publishing

peter.suber's bookmarks 2023-01-21

Summary:

"JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.

Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable participating presses to publish new books that will transition from licensed to open access within three years of publication. The initial pilot will produce about one thousand open access monographs. If successful, it will lay the foundation for an entirely new way to fund long-form scholarship while vastly increasing its impact...."

Link:

https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/jstor-and-university-press-partners-announce-path-to-open-books-pilot/

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oa.new oa.jstor oa.up oa.books oa.business_models oa.path_to_open

Date tagged:

01/21/2023, 08:43

Date published:

01/21/2023, 03:43