Invest in Open Access | University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection

"Fund to Mission demonstrates a return to the origins of the university press movement and moves toward a more open, sustainable infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. Our goal is to convert at least 75% of U-M Press monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay. The Funding Model Libraries are invited to continue to participate in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) by way of our current fair pricing. However, rather than only funding a paywalled collection, an increasing percentage of titles become open access. By committing to purchase one of the UMP EBC packages (listed under "Investment Options"), libraries: Support the conversion to open access of at least half (~40) of University of Michigan Press scholarly monographs in 2022. (If we realize our goal, we will expand this percentage in succeeding years.); Receive perpetual access to the remaining restricted frontlist titles and term access to the backlist (~1,700 titles), which will otherwise remain closed to non-purchasers; Support authors’ ability to publish innovative, digital scholarship leveraging the next-generation, open-source Fulcrum platform...."