University of California Press is pleased to announce a new partnership between Knowledge Unlatched (KU), whose open access platform works with libraries and publishers to create a sustainable market where scholarly books and journals are freely accessible, and Luminos, University of California Press’s open access program for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences which publishes freely available digital monographs with the same high standards for selection and peer review as the Press’s traditional book program.

Over its first two years of existence, Luminos—which relies on a transformative funding model in which both costs and benefits are shared among all who benefit from publication—has published 38 new open access monographs and edited volumes, including its newest releases Taiwan and China: Fitful Embrace, edited by Lowell Dittmer, and Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France, by Jean Beaman.

“We are delighted to partner with KU to increase our outreach capabilities to libraries worldwide wishing to support open access publishing through the Luminos library membership program,” says Erich van Rijn, Interim Director of University of California Press.

“We believe that it is time to help libraries support Open Access in a more systematic way, and KU is supporting this with one central platform that unites different models for different kinds of content,” says Dr. Sven Fund, Managing Director of Knowledge Unlatched.

Read Knowledge Unlatched’s press release.

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