NEH, Mellon Foundation Revive Backlist Work

摘要

As part of a wider emphasis on digital publishing and the relevance of humanities scholarship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are giving new life to out-of-print (o.p.) humanities books. In January, the two organizations announced a joint pilot grant program, Humanities Open Book (HOB), that will help publishers identify important o.p. works, secure rights to them, and convert them to EPUB format ebooks freely accessible under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Awards range from $50,000 to $100,000 per recipient and will cover a period of one to three years.