Path to Open
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Discover the rise of Central American cinema through insightful essays in “The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century.” Explore the dramatic resurgence of filmmaking in the region from Belize to Panama. Learn about JSTOR’s Path to Open pilot program supporting open access publishing for diverse voices in the academic world.
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Three hundred groundbreaking new books are on the path to open access Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that brings diverse perspectives and research to millions of people, will add 300 new books from 44 university presses in 2024. This includes titles from 9…
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Eight BLC libraries join JSTOR and the academic community in developing a sustainable path for open access university press monographs at scale Boston Library Consortium (BLC), a coalition of libraries in the northeastern United States that share knowledge, infrastructure, and resources at scale, is the latest consortium to join Path to Open, a pilot program…
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Unveiling the critical role of trust in open access publishing, highlighting the DOAB Trusted Platform Network’s mission to combat predatory practices and uphold quality. Learn how initiatives like JSTOR ensure the integrity of scholarly works, facing challenges from perceptions of quality to generative AI, and fostering a sustainable open access ecosystem.
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JSTOR recently joined the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Platform Network, a global initiative bringing together platforms committed to maintaining the highest standards in open access (OA) book publishing. The DOAB Trusted Platform Network creates a more seamless process for platforms and publishers, including JSTOR, to index their OA books in DOAB by…
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Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), a centralized service supporting the shared needs of Florida’s 40 public colleges and universities, has joined Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Path to Open launched in 2023 as…
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Learn how presses, libraries, and authors are tackling the challenges of open access publishing by exploring JSTOR’s Path to Open program.
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Path to Open is hitting its stride with some exciting developments in the past few weeks. Here are highlights since we released the list of the first 100 books on October 4th: One of the first Path to Open books released, On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell, is…
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JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, announced today the release of the first books in Path to Open, a new program designed to affordably and sustainably support the open access publication of new groundbreaking books in the humanities and social sciences. Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed open…
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JSTOR will make a new 100-title open access book collection available as part of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s latest open access initiative. Centered on Gender and Sexuality studies, this collection is the first in a series of collections from Big Ten Open Books, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big…
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Brings JSTOR to 10,000 Open Access Books punctum books, an independent scholar- and queer-led open access publisher, and JSTOR recently released punctum’s entire backlist of 250 open access academic books on JSTOR. punctum books is dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry, publishing works that take experimental risks with the forms and styles of…
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Explore the growing collection of Path to Open titles—peer-reviewed books from nearly 50 university presses that showcase diverse voices and groundbreaking research across the humanities and social sciences.
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The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to support Path to Open, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model for supporting frontlist university press monographs and making them open access after three years. More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part…
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Dear Colleagues, I recently shared the 2023 priorities ITHAKA has set to help provide the infrastructure the academic community needs to support research, teaching, and learning in an increasingly digital world. One of our most important aims is to provide universal access to as much content as possible. We are pursuing this through a range…
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JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable…
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Explore the global community of university presses participating in JSTOR’s Path to Open, advancing access to high-quality monographs and supporting sustainable, equitable scholarly publishing.
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Explore the global network of libraries partnering in Path to Open, institutions committed to expanding access to high-quality, open access scholarly books.
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Discover how Path to Open, a Books at JSTOR initiative, brings libraries, publishers, and authors together to make open access for scholarly books sustainable, equitable, and scalable.
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