If you would like to help fund equitable OA publishing while simultaneously enhancing your own library collection please consider investing in Opening the Future at Basler AB. See the Sign Up page for details of which books you could own in perpetuity when joining as a subscriber member.
Every euro, pound or dollar you invest goes towards helping us flip our frontlist to OA, while your own collection of closed backlist books also grows.
"...initiatives that strengthen the capacity of university presses and independent publishers to produce open access monographs—whether immediately or through phased approaches—are viewed as essential in protecting these presses’ capacities to publish alternative voices. As such, these open monograph efforts underpin the sustainability of these publishers and also safeguard their ability to curate and disseminate specialized and underrepresented areas of scholarship to a wide range of readers...
...the real value is that the library views [Opening the Future] more as a subscription model plus supporting open access, as opposed to providing open access support alone.”Bergstrom, Tracy, and Makala Skinner. "The Current State of Academic E-Book Business Models: Access Strategies and Budgeting Realities." Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R. 13 August 2025. Web. 8 January 2026. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.323373