Fellowships Open Book Program.

June 22, 2022 by languagehat 2 Comments

Via Anne Lounsbery’s FaceBook post, I present the Fellowships Open Book Program:

The Fellowships Open Book Program supports the conversion of recently published books funded by NEH into eBooks that are freely available online. This page lists all books that have received a Fellowships Open Book award and includes links to the eBooks that are currently available. Other open access books can be found at the NEH-Mellon Humanities Open Book Program website.

It’s some mitigation of the outrageous prices charged for academic books that more of them are being made freely available online. Two that immediately attracted me are The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky and American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream by Julia L. Mickenberg; among the “Forthcoming eBooks” is Anne’s Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917, which I highly recommend (LH, The Millions).

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Christopher Henrich says

June 24, 2022 at 5:26 pm

If a book is funded by the NEH, might there be a clause in the NEH’s agreement with the publisher that either sets bounds upon the hardback and paperback prices or allows it to be placed online after some interval of time?
languagehat says

June 24, 2022 at 6:17 pm

I certainly hope so!

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