Start of the pilot project for the open access transformation of E-Books - National Contact Point Open Access

The National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE, the publisher transcript, the Political Science Information Service (FID) at the Bremen State and University Library and Knowledge Unlatched are launching a project today that will enable political scientists to publish their books directly in Open Access.

The aim of the pilot project is the development of a publisher and library equally manageable, transparent and economically sustainable open-access e-book business model. That means, that instead of buying the E-Books, the participating libraries enable the open access publication of all forthcoming books. Through that, the library budgets unlatch the titles to the benefit of everybody instead of supporting isolated access for single institutions.

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Find more information on our project website: http://oa2020-de.org/en/pages/pilotprojects/ Website of transcript publishing house: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-politikwissenschaft Or Knowledge Unlatched: http://knowledgeunlatched.org/political-science/