Birkbeck awarded $741,000 grant for new humanities open-access model of publishing

Birkbeck, University of London has been awarded a three-year grant of $741,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines.

The Open Library of Humanities platform, directed by Dr. Martin Paul Eve and Dr. Caroline Edwards – both faculty members in Birkbeck’s School of Arts – will allow access to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles without requiring readers to pay.

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