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

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been out of print.

The Humanities Open Book Program is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation (Mellon).

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 secure the rights and 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. 1 (or later) format, to ensure that the text is fully searchable and reflowable and that fonts are resizable on any e-reading device.

Proposed books can be on any topic relevant to any humanities discipline.

However, in recognition of two important upcoming anniversaries, NEH and Mellon encourage applicants to consider proposing books related to the following:
• the 250th anniversary of the United States, coming in 202 6. Applicants may wish to include important books relevant to the founding of the United States.

• the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, coming in 202 0. Applicants may wish to include important books relevant to the Nineteenth Amendment and women’s suffrage.

Applicants are encouraged to form partnerships, if appropriate, when applying.

For example, two or more presses could collaborate to bring together books published by their respective institutions on similar themes and topics.
Related Programs

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National Endowment For The Humanities


Agency: National Endowment For The Humanities

Office: National Endowment for the Humanities

Estimated Funding: $1,000,000


Who's Eligible





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

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: Fellowship proposals may be submitted by a US university, college, or non-profit, non-academic organization with the prospective Fellow as the Principal Investigator (PI).

Fellowship proposals may also be submitted by individuals who are unaffiliated or who are affiliated with for-profit organizations, state or local governments or federal agencies.

When applying as independent/unaffiliated individuals, Fellow applicants must register with FastLane or Grants.gov prior to submitting their proposals and, if recommended for a Fellowship, must affiliate with a US university, college, or non-profit, non-academic organization, which administers the Fellowship award.

PI Limit:The PI on an American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship must be the prospective Fellow.

No co-PIs are allowed.

At the time of the award, a Fellow must hold a doctorate in the chemical sciences and must be a US citizen or permanent resident.

For a Postdoctoral Fellowship, the individual must have received his or her doctorate within two years from the start date of the fellowship.

PIs who have not yet received their PhD are eligible to apply.

Exceptions to this time-related restriction can be made for extenuating personal circumstances, such as a career interruption due to family responsibilities, but must be approved by a cognizant program officer prior to submission of the proposal.

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

Contact:


Agency Email Description:
odh@neh.gov

Agency Email:


Date Posted:
2018-08-01

Application Due Date:


Archive Date:
2010-03-04


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