Humanities Open Book Program

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 will allow teachers, students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that have long been

out of print.

The Humanities Open Book Program is jointly sponsored by NEH and the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation.

Traditionally, printed books have been the primary medium for expressing, communicating, and debating humanistic ideas.

However, the vast majority of humanities books sell a small number of copies and then quickly go out of print.

Most scholarly books printed since 1923 are not in the public domain and are not easily available to the general public.

As a result, there is a huge, mostly untapped resource of remarkable scholarship going back decades that is largely unused by today’s scholars, teachers, students, and members of the public, many of whom turn first to the Internet when looking for information.

Modern ebook technology can make these books far more accessible than they are today.

NEH and Mellon are soliciting proposals from academic presses, scholarly societies, museums, and other institutions that publish books in the humanities to participate in the Humanities Open Book Program.

Applicants will provide a list of previously published humanities books along with brief descriptions of the books and their intellectual significance.

Depending on the length and topics of the books, the number to be digitized may vary.

However, NEH and Mellon anticipate that applicants may propose to digitize a total that ranges from less than fifty to more than one hundred books.

Awards will be given to digitize these books and make them available as Creative Commons-licensed “ebooks” that can be read by the public at no charge on computers, mobile devices, and ebook readers.

The final ebook files must be in EPUB version 3. 0. 1 (or later) format, to ensure that the text is fully searchable and reflowable and that fonts are resizable on any e-reading device.

Related Programs

Promotion of the Humanities_Office of Digital Humanities

National Endowment For The Humanities


Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities

Office: None

Estimated Funding: Not Available


Who's Eligible





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Not Available

Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program

Contact:
If you have questions about the program, contact the Office of Digital Humanities staff at odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff member by telephone should provide in an e-mail message a telephone number and a preferred time to call.odh@neh.gov

Agency Email Description:
odh@neh.gov

Agency Email:
odh@neh.gov

Date Posted:
2017-06-22

Application Due Date:
2017-09-13

Archive Date:
2017-06-26


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