This week, from Monday 6 to Friday 10 June, is the fourth International Archives Week organised by the International Council on Archives (ICA). This year’s theme is #ArchivesAreYou and Liverpool University Press is commemorating the week by making a selection of articles from Archives: The Journal of The British Records Association free to read for … Continue reading
Celebrating LUP Open Planning success: leading planning journals now available Open Access through new subscribe to open model
We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning has now reached its target for 2022. This means that this year's content for our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review and International Development Planning Review, is now available via Open Access!
OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph initiative
ECRs: the challenges Open Access is becoming ever more important for researchers, research funders and readers. With limited resources available for Gold Open Access, early career researchers (ECRs) face significant barriers. They must compete with established scholars while they build a successful track record of publication, their employment contracts may be short-term, or otherwise less … Continue reading
LUP Announces First Open Access Books Funded by Opening the Future
The team at Liverpool University Press are thrilled to announce that our Opening the Future library membership programme has reached the threshold needed to begin funding its first two titles, made fully open access through subscribing libraries’ memberships.
Reconstructing Mandaean History by Charles G. Häberl
The Book of Kings is a universal history and capstone to the chief scripture of the Mandaeans, the only surviving Gnostic community from Late Antiquity. For the first time ever, it has been published in English in its entirety, directly translated from original Mandaic manuscripts with a scholarly commentary. Charles G. Häberl introduces his new publication and … Continue reading