[IP-OA_Forum] Central European University Press Announces Innovative Open Access Funding Model

[Tom Mosterd <t.mosterd@oapen.org>]

 

**Sharing on behalf of CEUP - with apologies for cross-posting**

 

Dear all – I hope it is fine that I share this message in English as I believe it may be of interest to you.

 

The Central European University Press (CEUP) announces that it is transitioning to an open access (OA) monograph programme through its new library subscription membership initiative, Opening the Future. The Press will provide access to portions of their highly-regarded backlist and use the revenue from members’ subscriptions to allow the frontlist to be OA from the date of publication. The Press is working with the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.

 

Read the Press Release: Press Release

 

Visit the project website: Opening the Future

 

Additional partners on the initiative include Project MUSE, as hosting platform for the subscription packages and new OA titles, along with LYRASIS facilitating library membership participation, and with OAPEN for hosting and dissemination of OA titles.

 

CEUP is creating a sustainable OA publishing model that will give members access to a selection of the extensive backlist, DRM-free and with perpetual access after three years. In return, this membership revenue will then be used to make newly-published books openly accessible to anyone. When the revenue target is met and the entire monograph frontlist is openly accessible, future membership fee rates can be lowered. The model has support from LYRASIS who will assist with organizing library participation in the programme and has support from OAPEN. Project MUSE will host the books, providing MARC records, KBART files and supporting discovery systems, and subscribers will have access to COUNTER compliant statistics. Membership is open to libraries and institutions worldwide.

 

The initiative builds on library journal membership models such as Open Library of the Humanities and ‘Subscribe to Open’ such as being piloted by Annual Reviews, and also on successful book membership programmes such as those at Open Book Publishers and punctum books.

 

If you’d like to discuss this announcement, please contact Professor Martin Eve at martin.eve@bbk.ac.uk and Dr Frances Pinter at PinterF@press.ceu.edu

 

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Kind regards,

Tom

 

Tom Mosterd

Community Manager DOAB / OAPEN