Liverpool University Press join Opening the Future | Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

COPIM WP3 are pleased to announce that Liverpool University Press (LUP) is the second press to pilot an Opening the Future OA funding programme. They will join Central European University Press who launched the first pilot earlier this year, and who recently announced they’ve already reached the target for funding an OA monograph.

We’re thrilled that Liverpool are launching with us. They have a long history of publishing in the Romance languages, and in open access publishing: they’ve explored many avenues, from BPCs to Green OA, and have been publishing OA books since 2010. This new Opening the Future programme sees them expand their commitment to disseminating research globally — and by harnessing the power of collective library funding no single institution bears a disproportionate burden.

LUP’s programme offers libraries subscription/membership access to two modern language backlist series — and in return the press will use subscription fees to produce new OA monographs, freely accessible to all.

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