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American Council of Learned Societies Names Finalists for 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce 10 finalists for the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. The finalists, five history titles and five multimodal works, were selected by a distinguished panel of scholars, librarians, digital humanities experts, and accessibility specialists. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities books published from 2017 to 2022.

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  • Amplifying humanistic scholarship through initiatives such as the ACLS Open Books Prizes helps cultivate a twenty-first-century ecosystem in which humanistic publications can thrive.
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  • Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 80 scholarly organizations.
  • Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge.