Humanities Open Book Program

Open Access Humanities Books Funded by the NEH and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Humanities Open Book Program was designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience, and was jointly sponsored by NEH and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Over four years (2016-2019), the Humanities Open Book Program made 31 awards to university and non-profit presses to support the release of digital, open access editions of humanities books, released under a Creative Commons license.

A list of awardees, with links to the e-books made available through this program, is below: 

Award

Topic

Website

Wesleyan University Press

HZ-233998-16

 

The history of dance and theater

https://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/dance/
neh_open_book/index.html

University of North Texas Press

HZ-234002-16

The history of Texas and Oklahoma

https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/OBOOKS/

Oregon State University Press

HZ-234043-16

Texts from women authors representing work originally published by the Oregon-based independent press CALYX

Forthcoming

Cornell University Press

HZ-234074-16, HZ-254284-17, HZ-259514-18

Slavic Studies, German Studies, literary criticism, anthropology, classics, political science, literary theory, Classics, Medieval Studies, and Science Education

http://www.cornellopen.org/

Syracuse University Press

HZ-254255-17

Irish studies and New York State regional studies

https://syracuseopen.syr.edu/

Temple University Press

HZ-254286-17

Labor Studies

http://tupress.temple.edu/open-access/labor-studies

Fordham University Press

HZ-254314-17

American philosophy

https://www.fordhampress.com/american-philosophy/

University of Michigan Press

HZ-259485-18

Japanese, Chinese, South Asian, and South East Asian Studies

https://www.press.umich.edu/browse/digital_products?format=all_ebooks_oa

Johns Hopkins University Press

HZ-259515-18

American history, European history, literary criticism, and philosophy

https://www.press.jhu.edu/open-access

University of North Carolina Press

HZ-265135-19

German Studies

https://uncpress.org/series/university-north-carolina-studies-germanic-languages-literature/

 

University of Georgia Press

HZ-265200-19

The history of Georgia

https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/dlg_ugapressbks

Ohio University Press

HZ-265426-19

45 texts, including the Complete Works of Robert Browning, the Collected Letters of George Gissing, and the Series in Continental Thought

Forthcoming

Wayne State University Press

Funded by Mellon

Industrial and labor history, maritime history, Detroit history, Jewish history, Holocaust Studies, Israel and Middle East Studies, and biographies of significant individuals

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/openaccess

Ithaka Harbors

Funded by Mellon

Mexican and Latin American Studies

https://www.jstor.org/open/

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Funded by Mellon

Humanities

https://www.fulcrum.org/heb

University of Florida Press

Funded by Mellon

Florida and the Caribbean

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/openbooks/all

University of Arizona Press

Funded by Mellon

The southwestern United States

https://open.uapress.arizona.edu/

Appalachian State University

Funded by Mellon

Books printed by the Appalachian Consortium Press, which published multidisciplinary scholarly works in history, literature, photography, music, sociology, folklore, and environmental studies that together provided a holistic view of the region

https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/82

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

Funded by Mellon

Architecture and Urban Studies

https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-open

Northeastern University Press

Funded by Mellon

Boston history

https://digitalpublishing.library.northeastern.edu/
nupress/humanities-open-book/

Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies Incorporated

Funded by Mellon

Slavic Studies

http://www.borderlinesfoundation.org/open

Northwestern University Press

Funded by Mellon

African studies, literary criticism, and philosophy

http://open.nupress.northwestern.edu/

The American Numismatic Society

Funded by Mellon

Coins, currency, medals, and insignia

http://numismatics.org/publications/

University of Hawai’i Press

Funded by Mellon

Asian and Pacific Studies

Forthcoming

Abilene Christian University Press

Funded by Mellon

Modern approaches to the study of religion

Forthcoming

Brown University

Funded by Mellon

Judaic Studies

https://www.brown.edu/academics/judaic-studies/monograph/bjs-open-access-books

 

Indiana University Press

Funded by Mellon

Film, folklore, music, philosophy, semiotics, Asian studies, and linguistics

Forthcoming

University Press of Kansas

Funded by Mellon

History, culture, and politics of the United States

Forthcoming