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.
New Journals Agreement with Jisc
A new agreement for access to the Liverpool University Press Journals Collection is now available. Jisc Collections last had a journals agreement with LUP in 2011, at which time 13 journals were offered. LUP's journals portfolio has since expanded to 27 scholarly journals across the humanities and social sciences, of which 24 are included in this agreement. … Continue reading
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