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6 new ebooks available in open access thanks to an institutional fundraising campaign
The institutional fundraising campaign for the OpenEdition Books Select offer, conducted jointly with Knowledge Unlatched, OpenEdition and Couperin, is on the right track: 58 institutions (mainly from France but also from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, USA) have pledged for the release of a package of 30 SSH research books in French (10 new books and 20 from OpenEdition collections).
In fact, 6 out of the 10 new titles are already available on the OpenEdition Books platform:
- Le cinéma ou le dernier des arts (Presses Universitaires de Rennes)
- Le théâtre de Dumas père, entre héritage et renouvellement (Presses Universitaires de Rennes)
- Enquêter, former, publier au cœur de la cité (IES Éditions)
- Cases-pixels : une histoire de la BD numérique en France (Presses universitaires François-Rabelais)
- Les mises en guerre de l'État, 1914-1918 en perspective (ENS Éditions)
- Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web ? (OpenEdition Press)
For Libraries and institutions, engaging in this operation is a good opportunity to show policy makers, researchers and publishers that other ways of funding the dissemination of research exist and work. It is also a concrete way of putting into practice the political will that is increasingly being expressed in favour of open science.
The release of the entire package requires 120 participants to join the project: the commitment period has therefore been extended until 30 April 2019.
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