Such a shame to see CUP setting up exclusive deals like this, rather than shifting to scrap BPCs and welcome OA book proposals from anyone. A press with their resources and reputation should be showing more leadership and ambition, in my opinion.

A great opportunity for classicists working-in or recently trained at the University of Cambridge. Not so great for anyone else…

The Faculty of Classics is delighted to have reached an agreement with Cambridge University Press by which, for the next three years, five volumes a year in the Cambridge Classical Studies Series (monographs on…[Read more]

This is a huge question, and there are so many complex issues. Much has been achieved, but there is still so much to do. In my world –  I say this because awareness, adoption and advocacy is uneven across libraries and other stakeholders – open access is a new normal, but it took a long time and a lot of education, outreach, and advocacy work to…[Read more]

This is really interesting and powerful Sherri — I’m very curious to know how (or if) you think things have moved on since the Huma study group you were part of in the late 2000s? Has progress been made on the issues you discussed, or are we still circling around the same questions?