Largest Prize for Open Access Titles in the
Humanities Now Accepting Nominations from Publishers
NEW
YORK, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American
Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce it is
now accepting nominations for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize
for authors and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award for
publishers.
Largest Prize for Open Access Titles in the
Humanities Now Accepting Nominations from Publishers
For more than a century, ACLS has been a leader in supporting
the creation and circulation of humanistic knowledge—knowledge that
advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors. Today, in
promoting the sharing of such knowledge via open
access—publications made freely available in digital formats
online—ACLS reaffirms its commitment to equity and innovation in
how humanistic knowledge is shared, both within and beyond the
academy.
Established in 2023, the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia
Open Access Publishing Award aim to raise awareness about the
benefits of open access publishing in the humanities, as well as
support increased access to high-quality humanistic research and
writing via open access, which is increasingly vital for today's
diverse communities of students, educators, and librarians around
the world. Both awards are made possible by a generous grant from
Arcadia.
Now in its second year, this program will once again recognize
authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open
humanities scholarship. It also offers the largest prizes
recognizing open access monographs in the humanities with dual
awards for each winning book: $20,000
for authors, and $30,000 for
publishers to support making future books available as open
access.
The 2025 competition will recognize one open access monograph
published between 2018 and 2023 in each of the following
categories:
- Environmental Humanities, including humanistic
examinations of such issues as climate change, biodiversity,
conservation, and environmental justice;
- History, including historical examinations of all eras,
geographical regions, peoples, and/or cultural developments through
any theoretical lens;
- Literary Studies, including studies of language,
literature, and media from all eras, cultures, and locales through
any theoretical lens; and
- Multimodal, in any humanistic discipline, including
works that incorporate digital content or affordances that are not
possible in a print edition, demonstrate effective and innovative
use of online environments and contain the entirety of the
monograph's text (i.e., not a companion website to a separate print
edition).
Publishers are invited to nominate up to three books in each of
the four categories through Tuesday,
September 10, 2024. Learn more about the prize at
acls.org/OAbookrizes.
ACLS will also host a series of live information sessions via
Zoom on Wednesday, July 31,
Wednesday, August 14, and
Wednesday, August 28, 2024. These
sessions are free to join. Register at
acls.org/OAprizeinfo.
Learn more about the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and
Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Winners.
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly
organizations. As the leading representative of American
scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences,
ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In
supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its endowment
and $37 million annual operating
budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly
knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and
experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and
individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for
scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to
principles and practices in support of racial and social
justice.
Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to
protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access
to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more
than $1.2 billion to organizations around the world.
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