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Taylor & Francis makes 50 more titles open access with Knowledge Unlatched
Taylor & Francis has announced 50 more of its titles will be converted to open access (OA) thanks to support from Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit scheme.
Titles to benefit from Knowledge Unlatched’s (KU) support cover a range of humanities and social science disciplines as well as topic areas including global health and gender studies.
Under KU’s crowdfunding model, research libraries around the world unite to support the publication costs of new e-books and enable access for all to new research.
Since 2016, when Taylor & Francis’ partnership with KU began, over 100 books have been published OA at no cost to the authors.
As in previous years, the list of Taylor & Francis books to be made OA in 2023 has a particular focus on supporting disciplines and regions where there is otherwise limited funding for traditional OA models. This includes long-standing subject collections within African Studies. Two African Studies titles recently published open access under the programme include The South African Response to COVID-19 and Nigeria’s Third-Generation Literature.
Nicola Parkin, director of books editorial services at Taylor & Francis, said: “Taylor & Francis has one of the largest portfolios of OA books and we’re delighted that the latest Knowledge Unlatched pledging round will see more than 50 titles added to that list. We believe that open access is the most effective way to amplify the research that fosters human progress. That’s why our KU partnership, which prioritises research on some of the key challenges faced by our societies and our planet is so important”.
Neil Christensen, head of publisher relations at KU, added: "We are excited for the high-quality books that Taylor & Francis and their authors commit to this collective-action model for equitable open access that KU brokers. Made possible by the support of hundreds of libraries, the KU model has made more than 4,000 scholarly books open access in the past 10 years and counting.
“Taylor & Francis, the authors, and the supporting libraries play a fundamental role in shaping the collective knowledge of our world – and often doing so in areas that suffer from systemic funding shortage. Full details for pledging support for KU 2024 collections are due to be announced in the second week of May."
