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Hundreds of new, peer-reviewed titles are added to Path to Open each year, and participating libraries receive exclusive, early access before the books become open to all. Selected using a combination of JSTOR data and community review, the titles showcase impactful research, diverse scholarly perspectives, and timely topics across the humanities and social sciences.

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Heritage in the Body by Kristina Baines — blue cover featuring a silhouette filled with colorful plants and tropical imagery.
Experiments in Silence by Sana R. Chaudhry — cover depicting a collage of flowers, hands, butterflies, and a black crow.
Patterns of Sustaining Peace by Julia Leib — book cover featuring colorful geometric tiles with a blue title box overlay.
Women in the Orthodox Tradition by Ashley Marie Purpura — colorful painted icon of a woman holding a child, rendered in vivid reds, blues, and golds.
Phonographic Modernity edited by Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-Fen Wang — collage of colorful vintage record labels with a central black record label title.
Hip-Hop Civics by Jabari M. Evans — black cover featuring a diverse group of illustrated students in colorful clothing.
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell — minimalist black cover with pastel text and a colorful soundwave line.
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education by Michael Bernard-Donals — book cover showing a murmuration of birds forming an abstract shape against a blue sky.
Maya Blue by Dean E. Arnold — close-up of a weathered blue-and-red ceramic bowl on a teal background.
Lost Literacies by Alex Beringer — book cover with teal background and vintage comic strip illustrations of a man and a dog.
Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance by Miles C. Coleman — geometric yellow and white book cover with large overlapping text.
Subjunctive Aesthetics by Carolyn Fornoff — pale green and gray cover with silhouettes of fish swimming overhead.
Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History edited by Thomas P. Leppard and Sarah C. Murray — illustrated cover with a large fish swallowing smaller fish and a person fishing.
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals by Richard Twine — cover showing a lone lamb standing on a foggy road at sunrise.

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Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya Pritzker
Published by University of Michigan Press

Explore how intimacy and emotion intersect with development and cultural change in modern China.

Minimalist white cover with a large red heart bearing the Chinese flag inside it. Title reads “Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China” by Sonya E. Pritzker, in handwritten and serif fonts.

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

By Alexander Beringer
Published by Ohio State University Press

Discover the playful and experimental roots of the nineteenth-century American comic strip.

Teal-toned cover with the title “Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip” by Alex Beringer. Features three sepia-toned cartoon panels of a man interacting with a dog, in a 19th-century comic strip style.

Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

By Brian Sinche
Published by University of North Carolina Press

Uncover how African American writers forged their own paths to publication and self-representation.

Cover shows a red vintage book titled “Published by the Author” resting atop a green pamphlet with the subtitle: “Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature.” Author name “Bryan Sinche” appears below on a weathered paper background.

The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List
Published by University of Florida Press

Dive into the vibrant stories and social movements shaping contemporary Central American cinema.

Book cover with a maroon background featuring three stylized, illustrated characters from Central American films—two women and one man—in dynamic poses. Title reads “The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century,” edited by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List.

Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium

By Daniela Finzi and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
Published by Leuven University Press

Examine Freud’s enduring influence on how we understand groups, identity, and collective behavior.

Book cover split vertically: the left half in green shows a stylized illustration of a panicked crowd in black-and-white attire running and falling, with hats and canes flying. The right half is white with the title “Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium,” edited by Daniela Finzi and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein.

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran

By Pamela Karimi
Published by Leuven University Press

See how Iranian women artists use creativity as a form of activism and resistance.

Cover of “Women Art Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran” by Pamela Karimi. The background shows an outdoor urban art installation at night, featuring scaffolding and trees. A large projection of a woman’s face with windblown hair dominates the scene, symbolizing artistic expression and resistance.

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