The University of Cambridge has signed up to join JSTOR’s new Path to Open ebook scheme. This is a major Open Access initiative from JSTOR, which involves publishing 1,000 ebooks from over thirty different academic publishers between now and the end of 2026. For a period of three years after publication, each title will only be available as an ebook to those institutions who are participating in Path to Open; after the end of this embargo period, they will go on to be made Open Access, and will be freely available to readers worldwide.
There will be 100 titles published in the scheme in 2023 (you can find a title list here), with 300 per year in each of the three following years. So far, nearly 60 books are available, and records for these should display in iDiscover soon. We have committed to the scheme until the end of 2024 in the first instance, with our participation being funded from a number of different UL budgets, including Collections and Academic Liaison and the Office of Scholarly Communications.
Some of the newly available ebooks can be seen below (click here to skip to the list of iDiscover links). If you have any questions about this scheme, please do get in touch with the English Collections team.
- Awakening the Ashes : An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
- Book Anatomy : Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
- Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors : Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema
- Imagining Musical Pasts : The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
- Living Politics in the City : Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space
- Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect : Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel
- The Race for America : Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
- Urban Indigeneities : Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
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