[IRTalk] FW: [EIFL-OA] CEU Press announces first OA book funded entirely by library membership programme ‘Opening the Future’

[Leti Kleyn]

*From:* Iryna Kuchma <iryna.kuchma at eifl.net>
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*Subject:* [EIFL-OA] CEU Press announces first OA book funded entirely by
library membership programme ‘Opening the Future’



Dear colleagues,



Please see below the announcement from the Central European University
Press that launches a new open access publishing programme.

[Forwarded message from *Tom Grady* <GradyT at press.ceu.edu>]



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

Central European University Press (CEU Press <https://ceupress.com/>), in
partnership with the Community-led Open

Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM <https://www.copim.ac.uk/>),
and in collaboration with early supporters of the Opening the Future
<https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/> 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 double dipping.

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
<https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/about/> and structure of the model, see
the FAQs <https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/FAQ/> and resources
<https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/resources/> web pages.



*Contact details for further information*

PinterF at press.ceu.edu

Dr Frances Pinter

Executive Chair

Central European University Press

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