The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) welcomed Cornell University to the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem initiative. This pilot effort aims to support the digital publication of peer-reviewed scholarly books by participating university presses, allowing the free publication of these works online and broadly improving access to these works by scholars and the public.
Through TOME, Cornell will provide publication grants to a select number of its faculty members each year. These awards include baseline grants of $15,000 that awardees will use to publish their humanities and social science monographs via participating university presses.
More than 60 university presses at 15 universities are currently part of the initiative. Seventeen TOME-funded books have been published since the program began in 2017, with another twenty in process.
AAU, ARL, and AUPresses support an annual summit of TOME representatives who share model license terms and contracts for the open books, campus promotion strategies for the program, and ideas for improving and streamlining communications among authors, their institutions, and their publishers.
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