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UMass Amherst subscribes to Opening the Future at Boydell & Brewer

Boydell & Brewer are pleased to announce that the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are a new subscribing member to our Opening the Future program.The library has boosted their local collection by subscribing to the combined package of Boydell & Brewer’s OtF backlist books. This means that staff and students now have unlimited and concurrent access to 150 different eBooks on [...]

Looking Back on 2025 - OtF Annual Report

The year 2025 was a very busy one for Opening the Future. The main news is that our list of participating publishers doubled, offering still more routes to authors to publish OA and more backlist content to enhance local library collections (and there’s another press on the way in spring 2026 too, bringing the total to 5)!  Read on for more on this and other news.New PublishersWe spent [...]

Boydell & Brewer announces landmark partnership with Opening the Future, Lyrasis, and Fulcrum at Michigan Publishing

Boydell & Brewer's Sales and Marketing Director Antje King is pleased to announce the launch of the new Opening the Future (OtF) program to fund open access publishing at the press. In partnership with Fulcrum and Lyrasis, this collaboration aligns with Boydell & Brewer's commitment to expanding open access publishing in a sustainable way, ensuring that more high-quality content can [...]