The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Hawai'i a $90,000 grant to digitise 100 out-of-print University of Hawai'i Press books for open access. The project is part of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative between the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
UH Press selected the 100 titles—representing fields such as Asian studies, Pacific studies, linguistics, anthropology, and history—based on their contemporary scholarly relevance, historical significance, and practical value for teaching and research purposes.
Beginning in 2018, the digitized titles will be hosted on a custom open-access portal where readers will be able to download them in EPUB and PDF formats. A print-on-demand option will also be offered for select titles.
UH Press currently offers more than 800 titles online through library e-book vendors, and more than 350 scholarly monographs through Hawai'i Scholarship Online, a partnership with Oxford University Press and University Press Scholarship Online.
UH Press, which is celebrating 70 years of publishing, is a member of the Association of American University Presses and the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association.
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