Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced the launch of the seventh round of funding. It includes the KU Select Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) collection of books familiar to libraries, as well as nearly 20 discipline-specific collections developed in partnerships with HSS and STEM academic publishers including Berghahn Books, Brill, and International Water Association Publishing.
The 2020 collections have been assessed and selected by librarians around the world based on their relevance, including over 100 subject experts on the KU Selection Committee who have curated the content for KU Select HSS 2020 Books. In 2020, KU has introduced some noteworthy changes to the KU Select pledging model, giving libraries more flexibility than before to decide how to allocate their funds. Libraries will be able to pledge for the full KU Select HSS collection, or they may choose to support one or several HSS disciplines within KU Select, based on their profiles and researchers’ needs, including Anthropology, Communications, History, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.
In view of the current restrictions related to the Covid-19 crisis globally, it is more important than ever for scholars to have uninhibited access to quality research content. KU invites libraries everywhere to pledge support for OA offerings of 2020, till November 2020. Provided enough institutions take part in pledging, KU’s initiatives will once again enable researchers to publish their work OA and users everywhere will benefit from unrestricted access to the content, regardless of their location or affiliation.
More information about the 2020 OA initiative is available on KU’s website. Over 1,700 books and 40 journals have been published OA through KU initiatives, with the help from more than 600 libraries in 36 countries.
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