ACLS Launches 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Competition - ACLS

"ACLS is pleased to announce it is now accepting nominations for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize for authors and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award for publishers.

For more than a century, ACLS has been a leader in supporting the creation and circulation of humanistic knowledge—knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors. Today, in promoting the sharing of such knowledge via open access—publications made freely available in digital formats online—ACLS reaffirms its commitment to equity and innovation in how humanistic knowledge is shared, both within and beyond the academy.

Established in 2023, the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award aim to raise awareness about the benefits of open access publishing in the humanities, as well as support increased access to high-quality humanistic research and writing via open access, which is increasingly vital for today’s diverse communities of students, educators, and librarians around the world. Both awards are made possible by a generous grant from Arcadia.

Now in its second year, this program will once again recognize authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities scholarship. It also offers the largest prizes recognizing open access monographs in the humanities with dual awards for each winning book: $20,000 for authors, and $30,000 for publishers to support making future books available as open access...."