Knowledge Unlatched ‘comes’ to North America, garners an impressive number of titles from various publishers

Eventful week for the folks at Knowledge Unlatched. The not-for-profit from England and University of Michigan Library (UML) just announced that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Under the agreement, UML will provide a North American base for KU, which has also established presence in Germany and Australia. KU will have an office within the University of Michigan Library and Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director of University of Michigan Press, will join the Board. In the press release today, Frances Pinter, founder of KU, said: “I’m delighted that KU can benefit from the rich and diverse experiences and programmes that are part of University of Michigan Library, source of major initiatives such as HathiTrust and home of Michigan Publishing,” A

lso in the news from KU this week, KU has commenced preparations for its next round of front list and backlist collections, announcing that 53 publishers have submitted 681 titles (from both university presses and commercial publishers). In the press release from three days ago, Pinter said: “The number of international publishers submitting titles has doubled, submitting more than four times the number of titles compared to the last round.”

Way to go, KU.

Both press releases are available below.

Mirela Roncevic

Mirela Roncevic is Editorial Director of No Shelf Required. She is a professional editor, writer, content developer, and consultant to publishers, libraries, book distributors and library vendors around the world. Over the course of her career in publishing and libraries, she has written, edited, and published countless articles, reports, magazine features, and book and product reviews. She has also spearheaded the publication of a wide range of books, book series, journals, portals and digital resources for the publishing and information science industry.

She was previously Senior Book Review Editor at Library Journal, Managing Editor at Salem Press, Director of Content at Total Boox, Director of Content at The Short Story Project, Director of Publisher Relations at Chapters, and Contributing Writer and Managing Editor to a range of literary and LIS publications and magazines.

Mirela teaches classes on ebooks, hosts webinars, moderates panels and speaks internationally on the future and present of books and the written word in digital format. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Sciences.

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