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Humanities Open Book Program is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities. The Humanities Open Book Program is designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience by taking advantage of low-cost “ebook” technology. The program is jointly sponsored by NEH and the Andrew W.
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Humanities Open Book Program | National Endowment for the Humanities 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: Wesleyan University Press The history of dance and theater https://www. wesleyan.
edu/wespress/dance/ University of North Texas Press The history of Texas and Oklahoma https://texashistory. unt.
edu/explore/collections/OBOOKS/ Oregon State University Press Texts from women authors representing work originally published by the Oregon-based independent press CALYX 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 Irish studies and New York State regional studies https://syracuseopen. syr. edu/ http://tupress.
temple. edu/open-access/labor-studies https://www. fordhampress.
com/american-philosophy/ University of Michigan Press 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 American history, European history, literary criticism, and philosophy https://www. press.
jhu. edu/open-access University of North Carolina Press https://uncpress. org/series/university-north-carolina-studies-germanic-languages-literature/ University of Georgia Press https://dlg.
usg. edu/collection/dlg_ugapressbks 45 texts, including the Complete Works of Robert Browning, the Collected Letters of George Gissing, and the Series in Continental Thought Wayne State University Press 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 Mexican and Latin American Studies https://www. jstor.
org/open/ American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) https://www. fulcrum. org/heb University of Florida Press Florida and the Caribbean https://ufdc.
ufl. edu/openbooks/all University of Arizona Press The southwestern United States https://open. uapress.
arizona. edu/ Appalachian State University 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 Architecture and Urban Studies https://mitpress. mit.
edu/mit-press-open Northeastern University Press https://digitalpublishing. library. northeastern.
edu/ nupress/humanities-open-book/ Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies Incorporated http://www. borderlinesfoundation. org/open Northwestern University Press African studies, literary criticism, and philosophy http://open.
nupress. northwestern. edu/ The American Numismatic Society Coins, currency, medals, and insignia http://numismatics.
org/publications/ University of Hawai’i Press Asian and Pacific Studies Abilene Christian University Press Modern approaches to the study of religion https://www. brown. edu/academics/judaic-studies/monograph/bjs-open-access-books Film, folklore, music, philosophy, semiotics, Asian studies, and linguistics University Press of Kansas History, culture, and politics of the United States
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Digital Projects for the Public Grant is sponsored by U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications, interactive touch screens, games, and virtual environments. Projects should attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience and incorporate sound humanities scholarship. It includes three funding categories: Discovery (up to $30,000), Prototyping (up to $100,000), and Production (up to $400,000).
NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This program supports fellowship opportunities at independent centers for advanced study, libraries, and museums in the U.S. and American overseas research centers. These fellowships provide humanities scholars with stipends, a collegial environment, and access to resources for research on foreign cultures.