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Opening the Future Funds Its First Two Titles From Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press shared the first OA books to be funded fully by the Opening the Future collective subscription model. The threshold was reached to fund two titles so far, which will be made fully OA via subscribing libraries’ memberships in Opening the Future. They are Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures by Daniel F. Silva, associate professor of Luso-Hispanic studies and director of Black studies at Middlebury College, and Football and Nation Building in Columbia by Peter J. Watson, an early-career teaching fellow at the University of Leeds. Additional titles to be funded will be announced soon.The press release states, “As a leading international publisher in the field of modern languages, the focus of the Liverpool Opening the Future scheme is to make books that focus on Latin American Studies and Hispanic and Lusophone Studies open access.” For more information, read the press release.
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