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