University Press of Florida is pleased to announce participation in Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.
Launching the program as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable participating presses—including ours—to publish new books on JSTOR that will transition from licensed to open access within three years of publication. The initial pilot will produce about one thousand open access monographs. If successful, it will lay the foundation for a new way to fund long-form scholarship while vastly increasing its impact.
Path to Open was shaped through discussions convened by the American Council of Learned Societies of university presses, library leaders, and scholars. This new community-supported funding model will provide libraries with affordable access to frontlist titles, support sustainable university press publishing in the humanities and social sciences, help authors reach a global audience, and advance equity of access to underserved researchers around the world.
We will be publishing new books in the Path to Open program starting in 2023. Our initial titles in the Path to Open program include Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century by James D. Nations, Living Ceramics, Storied Ground by Charles E. Orser Jr., and The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century edited by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List. Through the support of this program, these titles will be made open access within three years of publication.
Lacandon Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico’s Tropical Rainforest
James D. Nations
University Press of Florida
This book tells the story of how Lacandón Maya families have adapted to the contemporary world while applying their ancestral knowledge to create an ecologically sustainable future in Mexico’s largest remaining tropical rainforest.
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
Charles E. Orser Jr.
University Press of Florida
Exploring the archaeological study of enslavement and emancipation in the United States, this book discusses significant findings, the attitudes and approaches of past researchers, and the development of the field.
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century
Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List
UF Press
This volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define the emerging filmmaking industry in Central America, providing a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world.
View the full list of the first 100 titles in the program, published by participating university presses, here.
Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 3,000 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 70 new titles each year. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.
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