LPP's 1st Open Access Book (and a Different Approach to Funding It)
This month, we published a new book in Queer & LGBT+ Studies; our first open access title!
Advocating for Queer and BIPOC Survivors of Rape at Public Universities
by Taylor Waits, Kimiya Factory, and Coreen Hale
This book is available for anyone to download and distribute under the terms of a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Please share widely – we are proud to support the #ChangeRapeCulture Movement.
What's remarkable about this is how it was funded – NOT by industry-standard "book processing charges," but by a different approach to funding open access books:
We reserve 5% of all sales to fund author-choice open access books like this one
Every 6 months we track (and publish publicly) our average cost of production
Three New Collections
Speaking of milestones, this month we have also launched 3 new collections:
Jewish Studies
Dr. Angy Cohen is building her collection around the narratives, life stories, ethnographies, and other ways of “telling” that describe Jewish lived experience.
Middle Eastern Studies
Dr. Kaziwa Salih is seeking compelling lived stories related to the Middle East or the Middle Eastern diaspora that represent the individual or collective voice of a community.
Incarceration Nations Network Collection
Dr. Baz Dreisinger aims to deliver the stories of people who have experienced prison firsthand and are thus living witnesses to the global catastrophe known as mass incarceration.
Two New Seminars
Apr 10: A Tale of Two Generations: Parallel and Divergent Paths of a Family of Ethiopian Immigrant Entrepreneur
Yoni Medhin, author of An Ethiopian Family's Journey of Entrepreneurship in the US: A Story of Determination, Resourcefulness, and Faith, discusses how his entrepreneurial experience as a second generation immigrant was shaped by, but different from, his parents’ entrepreneurial journey as first generation immigrants.
Apr 25: From “My Child” to “Our Children” – Fostering Positive Family Advocacy as a Path to Educational Equity
Liz Dempsey Lee, author of Parents as Advocates: Supporting K-12 Students and their Families Across Identities, discusses how recognizing and addressing family advocacy is critical to creating educational equity and how demystifying and educating families around effective advocacy can build better relationships among educational communities.
We continue to make excellent progress – we now have 26 institutions who have purchased our collections, including UPenn, Georgetown, NYU, Princeton, UT Austin, LSU, Northwestern, University of Toronto, and Cambridge University.