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Academics Urge Peers To Self-Publish Research
Academics are looking to their own Open Access ventures to create new spaces for monograph publishing, a conference on OA in the humanities and social sciences heard last week. Read More »
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Knowledge Unlatched and University of Michigan Library Announce Collaboration to Advance Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for-profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library), a major research library based in Michigan, are pleased to announce that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the arrangement, U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU which has recently also established presences in Germany and Australia...
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Knowledge Unlatched Enables a Further 78 Books to Be Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the 'unlatching'* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe. This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide...
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Knowledge Unlatched Select 2016 off to a strong start: 53 Publishers submit 681 titles
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, has commenced preparations for its next front list and backlist collections: KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 follows on from the successful unlatching of new books earlier this year, bringing the total to over 100 Open Access books. This time KU will offer subject-based packages of both new books and complementary older books that will be of high value to both researchers and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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KU Launches Pledging Period for KU Select 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, today launches its next front list and backlist collections; KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 offers 343 titles to libraries (147 front list to be published between November 2016 – April 2017 and 196 backlist published between 2005 – 2015) with 16 subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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