[IP-OA_Forum] Press Release: CEU Press announces first OA book funded entirely by library membership programme ‘Opening the Future’

[Tom Grady <GradyT@press.ceu.edu>]

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Roll out of first open access books fully funded by Opening the Future

Central European University Press (CEU Press), in partnership with the Community-led Open

Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM), and in collaboration with early supporters

of the Opening the Future library membership programme, has reached the threshold needed

to begin funding its first titles in open access.

The Opening the Future platform is a CEU Press and COPIM initiative, launched earlier this year

to facilitate transitioning the entire monograph program of CEU Press into open access together

with its partners Project MUSE, LYRASIS and Jisc. Within the model, which is a first of its kind, CEU

Press provides access to portions of their highly-regarded backlist, to which members subscribe.

The revenue from these subscriptions is allocated entirely to allow the frontlist to be OA from the

date of publication.

Words in Space and Time: Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe by Dr

Tomasz Kamusella will be the first title to be published OA through the Opening the Future (OtF)

program. The atlas, available this autumn, offers novel insights into the history and mechanics

of Central Europe’s languages as products of human history and a part of culture. It includes

forty-two annotated and interactive maps.

Further titles will be announced soon and advance notice will be given to avoid any doubledipping.

Opening the Future is a simple and cost-effective way for libraries to support OA books

for HSS subjects especially. With 250 libraries, each participating at appropriate pricing tiers

in the model, CEU Press can publish 25 OA books at a cost of 11 EUR / 13 USD / 10 GBP per

monograph for each library.

“With the Opening the Future model, CEU Press and COPIM developed a fair pricing system in the

true sense of the word “fair” that allows libraries of all sizes and budgets to support OA monograph

publishing in a sustainable way,” said Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly

Communication and Collections at Iowa State University, a member of the OtF program.

“During the past five years, the move toward open access for all publicly-funded research

publications has become a new norm and goal. CEU Press with its own OtF project trailblazes

this new ground as a leader in this regard,” said Dr Tomasz Kamusella, Reader at the University

of St. Andrews, UK.

More Information and Call to Action

For libraries or other institutions that want to support the move to immediate OA, without

author-facing charges, more information can be found at https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/.

For further details on the pricing and structure of the model, see the FAQs and resources web pages.

Contact details for further information

PinterF@press.ceu.edu

Dr Frances Pinter

Executive Chair

Central European University Press