How Open Access Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship - ACLS

"ACLS spoke with the finalists of the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards about their experiences publishing open access. Their answers show how open access expands the reach of humanistic inquiry: their work has shaped policy and legal decisions in real time, reached communities across the globe represented in their research, resulted in invitations to government forums and media interviews, and become a springboard for collaboration in higher education, museums, and beyond. Below, read the impact of their work in their own words."