The theme of this year’s International Open Access week is ‘Community over Commercialization‘, a principle which aims to encourage a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not.

Chosen by the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, this year’s theme provides an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. Open Access Week 2023 will be held from October 23rd through the 29th; but the team at Liverpool University Press have made it our mission to continue the #OpenAccess conversation throughout the year, launching our Open Access Newsletter in 2023, designed to share the latest news and industry updates for all things #OpenAccess within the humanities and beyond.

In this spirit, we have complied a quick breakdown of the latest Open Access research from our collections of books and journals, as well as the latest in our Open Access initiatives and projects . You can also sign up to our Open Access mailing list here >

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New in Open Access Books:

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond: Politics, Communities, Contexts edited by M. E. Gkikaki

This edited volume contains a selection of essays on symbola, as the tokens of Classical Athens were called, bringing together scholars of various disciplines and professional categories (numismatists, historians, museum curators) that intends to reshape our knowledge on the roles these objects played in the Athenian Democracy.

Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery

This publication explores the history of Conservative electoral performance in Liverpool from the end of WWII to the present day, and challenges myths regarding the city’s political history. It argues that Conservative post-war success was not due to sectarian tensions or false consciousness, taking a multi-method approach to the study of Conservative Party history in Liverpool.

Haiti for the Haitians by Louis-Joseph Janvier

The first English translation of Louis-Joseph Janvier’s most prominent work, this monograph provides a searing critique of European and U.S. imperialism, predatory finance capitalism, and Haiti’s domestic politics. It offers his vision of Haiti’s future, with unprecedented access to this vital Haitian thinker and provides an important contribution to the scholarship on Haiti’s nineteenth century.

Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947–1996: Towards A Full Life? by David Kilgannon

This book explores the varied experiences of the intellectually disabled during the latter half of the mid-twentieth century in Ireland. Addressing the evolution of disability policies and provision, it shows how a range of different actors became engaged in shaping the disability services landscape during this period.

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New in Open Access Journals:

Romani Studies Becomes a Fully Open Access Journal

We are delighted to announce that Romani Studies is now a fully Open Access journal thanks to sponsorship from the Gypsy Lore Society. As an international , interdisciplinary publication specialising in modern scholarship of all branches of Romani/Gypsy studies, the journal’s transition to Open Access marks an important step in increasing the accessibility of Gypsy/Romani studies research more broadly. Forthcoming issues of the journal will now be freely accessible to all via the LUP website.

Journal of Beatles Studies – Issue 2 out now

The Spring/Autumn 2023 issue explores the nature of Beatles Studies and citizen scholarship, aiming to shine a light on the potential power of open-access research to empower readers and contributors alike.

Contributions include critical analysis of Cass Sunstein’s concept of ‘informational cascades’ (Sunstein 2022) as a way of understanding the phenomenon of Beatlemania; emulating the experiences and emotions of 1960s Beatles fans; the creative evolution of the Beatles’ development as songwriters and musicians; a quantitative accounting of the Lennon—McCartney song writing partnership; 1960s European geopolitics when the Beatles consider buying a Greek island; a never-before-heard recording of a live performance by the Beatles at Stowe School in April 1963; taking part in a Yoko Ono performance art piece; Liverpool commemorates and celebrates George Harrison’s birthday; original poetry about coming of age in Liverpool; and how podcasts influence the lives of Beatles fans today.

Browse the full collection of Open Access journals from LUP >

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New in Open Access Initiatives:

JSTOR Path to Open

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce its participation in a new Open Access (OA) monograph scheme, Path to Open, in partnership with JSTOR. Path to Open represents a new program developed by university press directors, librarians, and scholars. The model makes frontlist books available to supporting libraries exclusively through JSTOR, on an unlimited, multi-user, digital rights management-free basis. After three years of availability only to supporting institutions, the books become Open Access under Creative Commons licenses. The following books are forthcoming in the initiative for 2024:

• Britten’s Gods: Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Mahler by Sterling Lambert (Published in partnership with Clemson University Press)
• Ezra Pound and Chinese Landscapes by Kent Su (Published in partnership with Clemson University Press)
• Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Craft of Public Criticism by Patrick Thomas Henry (Published in partnership with Clemson University Press)
• Womb Work: Womb-Centered Health Narratives as Reparative Praxis in Black Women’s Fiction by Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson
• British society and its three crises: From the 1970s to the onset of Brexit in 2016 by Neville Kirk
• Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise by Joanne Leow
• Domestic Workers in Indonesia: Feminist Activism and a Politics of Presence by Mary Austin
• Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Greg Gilles, Karolina Frank, Christine Plastow, Lewis Webb
• Global Trespassers: Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture by John McLeod
• Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust by Max McGuinness
• Mixed Marriage: Class, Religion, Race, and Nation in England, 1837-1939 by Ginger S. Frost
• Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought by Bruno Chaouat
• Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema by Nicoleta Bazgan
• Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and Ideal by John Godwin
• Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry by Denis Murphy
• The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Gender, Genre, Glamour by David Sweeney

Opening the Future

Opening the Future is a collective subscription model that, through its membership scheme, makes library funds go further: achieving the dual objectives of increasing collections and supporting Open Access. We’re offering libraries anywhere in the world subscription/membership access to a choice of two Hispanic Studies backlist series of monographs. In return LUP will use the subscription fees to produce new Open Access monographs, freely accessible to all. 

So far, five monographs have been published Open Access through the scheme. You can view the progress and all upcoming titles via the Open Access Progress page.

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