JSTOR is proud to announce that Path to Open has been named a Silver Award Winner in the Partnership or Collaboration, Education, Art & Culture category in the 6th Annual Anthem Awards.
“The work of social impact doesn’t pause when conditions get harder, and this year’s Anthem Winners proved it,” said Patricia McLoughlin, General Manager of The Anthem Awards. “Facing new challenges, they kept building, kept organizing, and kept delivering for the people and causes they serve. They set a new standard for good, one defined as much by persistence as by results.”
That spirit is at the heart of Path to Open, a community-led Books at JSTOR program that brings libraries, publishers, and authors together to expand open access to humanities and social science scholarship at scale. Libraries help sustain the path to open while gaining immediate access to new scholarly books; publishers have time to recover publishing costs; and authors’ work reaches more readers globally. Each year, 300 licensed monographs join the program and 300 titles become freely available to readers worldwide.
For the first 100 titles to transition from licensed access to open access, item requests rose 1,227%, access expanded from 245 to 3,722 institutions, and readers spanned 192 countries, up from 16.
“Path to Open shows what’s possible when publishers, libraries, authors, and academic societies work together toward a shared goal,” said John Lenahan, Vice President of Published Content at JSTOR. “This award belongs to the community behind the program—and to everyone whose scholarship can now reach readers around the world.”
JSTOR would like to thank the more than 50 presses participating in Path to Open, as well as nearly 300 library partners, authors, scholarly societies, Advisory Committee members, and colleagues whose collaboration and support make Path to Open possible.
Learn more about this community-led program and how your organization can participate.
About JSTOR
JSTOR is a mission-driven nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to knowledge. We work with libraries, museums, and publishers to preserve and bring to life scholarly materials, helping more people discover these collections and improve their lives through learning. Our research and teaching platform combined with our innovative collections stewardship tools, make information more affordable and accessible to current and future scholars everywhere. JSTOR is a part of ITHAKA.
About The Anthem Awards
Launched in 2021 by The Webby Awards, The Anthem Awards recognizes impactful brands, nonprofits, and individuals that are setting the standard for good worldwide. The Anthem Awards honors work across seven core causes: Belonging & Inclusion; Education, Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Sustainability, Environment & Climate; and Technology. This season’s partners and sponsors include NationBuilder, Sustainable Brands, NationSwell, The Bloom, the Social Innovation Summit and The Nonprofit Alliance. The Awards were founded in partnership with the Ad Council, Born This Way Foundation, Feeding America, GLAAD, Mozilla, NAACP, NRDC, WWF, and XQ.