Edinburgh University Press has announced a new Open Access initiative to support authors in the College and to help ensure their books reach the widest possible audience. The leading scholarly publisher of books and journals is creating a £250,000 fund to publish Open Access editions of 50 research publications by University staff. Image These books published by Edinburgh University Press (EUP) over the next five years in both print and digital formats, will be freely available in their ebook edition to a global audience on publication. Sharing research The funding comes from EUP’s cash reserves and speaks to their mission as a University Press to maximise the influence and impact of research in the humanities and social sciences. This major initiative is part of a commitment to finding a sustainable model for Open Access (OA) monograph publishing in the humanities. EUP will invest the sales revenue from the print editions of these OA books in the fund, to cover the costs for additional future OA publications. I am delighted to be launching this initiative. Open Access is a key theme of EUP’s strategic plan and we hope this fund will go some way to help solve the challenge of funding OA monographs for academics in the Humanities, and to finding a sustainable OA model for our books. Nicola RamseyChief Executive of EUP I very much welcome this exciting and forward-looking commitment from Nicola Ramsey and EUP to support Open Access publication for Humanities research at the University of Edinburgh. This major initiative provides vital support for the work of Humanities scholars to increase its impact and visibility as well as widening accessibility to world-leading research. Sarah PrescottHead of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences The first eight books to be published under this initiative are available this summer via the open access section of the Edinburgh University Press website. The titles are listed below, with more information available on the Edinburgh University Press website. • Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War by Marie Allitt • Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction by Alexandra Lawrie • Scottish Education and Society since 1945 by Lindsay Paterson - available 30 June 2023 • Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire, Volume 1 edited by Pedro López Barja, Carla Masi Doria and Ulrike Roth • Theocritus and Things by Lilah Grace Canevaro • Iconoclasm in European Cinema by Chiara Quaranta- available 31 July 2023 • Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West by Walaa Quisay • The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor by Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen Edinburgh University Press [Image credit - SPMemory via Getty Images] This article was published on 2024-08-28
