New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut

By Jennifer Howard

Scholars in the sciences have been light-years ahead of their peers in the humanities in exploring the possibilities of open-access publishing. But a new venture with prominent academic backers, the Open Humanities Press, wants to help humanists close the gap.

The nonprofit operation—described by those involved as "an international open-access publishing collective"—makes its official debut on Monday with a roster of seven