Taylor & Francis has announced 32 new open access books under its Pledge to Open collective funding initiative and has confirmed that the program will run for a third year. Concluding the initiative’s second year, the new titles cover key global themes including children’s welfare, global security, and artificial intelligence. Pledge to Open enables books that are free to read and free for authors to publish through library collective action, which facilitates worldwide dissemination of research, particularly benefiting readers in resource-constrained regions and authors with limited open access funding.
Twenty-four institutions and consortia in Australia, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States pledged to support at least one of this year’s collections, and more than half of authors who will see their book published open access through Pledge to Open are based in countries outside Australasia, Europe, and North America.
New books to be made open access through Pledge to Open include Revitalizing the United Nations; Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sustainable Healthcare 5.0; The Foster Family in the Service of the Foster Child; and Smart IoT for Sustainable Development. Institutions are now invited to pledge support for forthcoming collections on artificial intelligence, biotechnological solutions, climate change, global security, social movements and activism, sustainability in practice, and wellbeing and mental health.
Participating libraries receive perpetual access to 50 backlist titles for each collection they support, selected from a pool of 1,000 books on related themes. The publisher has indicated that continued support in the second year has enabled more open access books than in the previous round, with participation spanning organizations of varying sizes, including smaller teaching colleges, research-intensive universities, and a statewide library service, and emphasized that these pledges help make new knowledge available to readers globally.
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