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Paradigm Publishing Services Press Releases | October 8, 2025
The eBound Foundation has announced nearly $100,000 in grants from its new UPLOpen Climate Change Fund to support 13 open-access scholarly books on global climate issues. The funded titles—produced by leading university and scholarly presses—will be freely available on UPLOpen.com, advancing eBound’s mission to broaden access to vital climate research.
EdTech Innovation Hub | Emma Thompson | February 2025
UPLOpen, the open access eBook platform developed by De Gruyter Brill eBound, has surpassed 10,000 freely accessible scholarly titles. Featuring content from over 50 academic publishers, the platform supports global research with a particular focus on the humanities and social sciences. Recent updates include enhanced discoverability through semantic search, integration with library systems, and improved usage reporting via OPERAS metrics.
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The Scholarly Kitchen | Peter Potter | September 2025
In a recent guest post for The Scholarly Kitchen, Peter Potter explores the evolution of open access (OA) book metrics and the need for long-term sustainability. He highlights key community-led initiatives, including the OA Book Usage Data Trust (OAEBUDT), Book Analytics Dashboard, and OPERAS Metrics, that are helping standardize and scale the tracking of OA book engagement. While technical solutions and governance structures are taking shape, Potter emphasizes that sustained funding and community support are now critical to ensuring the long-term success of these tools.
Library Technology | Press Release: De Gruyter Brill | August 2025
The De Gruyter Brill eBound Foundation has launched a new fund to support open access monographs focused on climate change and sustainability. Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 13, the fund provides publication grants to authors within the University Press Library (UPL) network. Titles supported by the fund will be published without embargo on UPLOpen, making critical climate research freely available to readers worldwide.