Open Access Books—A World beyond Covid
Peter Potter, ARL visiting program officer for TOME and director of publishing at Virginia Tech Publishing, and Sara Grimme, senior director of operations at Digital Science, consider the following question on the Digital Science Blog: What comes next for open access monographs as we cautiously start to envision life beyond COVID-19?
Learn more2021 TOME Stakeholders Meeting
The 2021 TOME Annual Meeting will take place virtually on October 28, 2021. TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) is an initiative to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs. Event Details Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021 Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. eastern […]
LEARN MORERe-Envisioning Humanities Infrastructure
Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to humanities infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press, and Melissa Pitts, University of British Columbia Press, in Inside Higher Ed.
Learn MoreTOME at Virginia Tech: A Progress Report
In 2017 Virginia Tech joined eleven other American universities in the launch of a 5-year pilot project called TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a bold new effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing. To date, Virginia Tech has funded a total of 10 monographs by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences (CLAHS) and the College of Architecture & Urban Studies (CAUS).
Learn MorePenn State University Libraries to Host TOME Author Discussions during Open Access Week
Penn State University Libraries is holding two virtual panel discussions on October 20-21 with Penn State authors who have published open access monographs through TOME. Seven authors will discuss their research and the impact of having their work made openly available.
Learn More60 Open-Access University-Press Monographs Published through TOME Initiative
Sixty scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences have been made freely available to researchers, students, and the general public under the TOME initiative. The Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses launched TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) in 2018 as a five-year pilot project to change […]
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