Ten Scholarly Books within the Humanities Advance to Ultimate Spherical of $50,000 Open Entry Prize
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The American Council of Discovered Societies (ACLS) is happy to announce 10 finalists for the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. The finalists, 5 historical past titles and 5 multimodal works, have been chosen by a distinguished panel of students, librarians, digital humanities consultants, and accessibility specialists. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes acknowledge and reward the authors and publishers of outstanding, modern, and open humanities books printed from 2017 to 2022.
Within the preliminary competitors, one open entry monograph in every class will obtain twin awards: authors obtain the $20,000 ACLS Open Entry Guide Prize, and publishers of the profitable titles obtain the $30,000 Arcadia Open Entry Publishing Award to assist forthcoming books that might not in any other case be printed open entry. The prizes, among the many largest for scholarly books, can be offered in Might 2024 on the ACLS Annual Meeting.
The 5 finalists within the historical past class are:
The 5 finalists within the multimodal, born-digital class are:
Honorable Point out: Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara by Elaine A. Sullivan (Stanford College Press, 2020)
“ACLS applauds the authors and publishers of those distinctive books,” mentioned ACLS President Pleasure Connolly. “They’ve proven a dedication to creating their scholarship accessible freely to the world, shifting away from ‘cloister’d advantage,’ sharing their insights into the human expertise with fellow students and communities worldwide.”
For greater than 100 years ACLS has supported the creation and circulation of information that advances our understanding of humanity and human endeavors. Amplifying humanistic scholarship by means of initiatives such because the ACLS Open Books Prizes helps domesticate a twenty-first-century ecosystem during which humanistic publications can thrive.
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Shaped a century in the past, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 80 scholarly organizations. Because the main consultant of American scholarship within the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core precept that data is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS makes use of its endowment and $37 million annual working finances to develop the types, content material, and circulate of scholarly data, reflecting our dedication to range of id and expertise. ACLS collaborates with establishments, associations, and people to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all points of our work, ACLS is dedicated to ideas and practices in assist of racial and social justice.
Arcadia is a charitable basis that works to guard nature, protect cultural heritage and promote open entry to data. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded greater than $1 billion to organizations around the globe.
SOURCE American Council of Discovered Societies
