Opportunity Information: Apply for 20250312 DR
The Fellowships Open Book Program is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant opportunity designed to help publishers make certain humanities books freely available to the public as open access e-books. Run by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities in partnership with the NEH Division of Research Programs and the NEH Division of Education Programs, the program provides small, targeted awards to support the costs of releasing a digital edition under a Creative Commons license. The main goal is straightforward: books that grew out of NEH-supported research should be easier for anyone to find, read, and download without paywalls.
This is a limited competition that awards a flat grant of up to $6,600 per project, with NEH expecting to make about 12 awards. Funds are intended for publishers to produce and release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by an eligible NEH fellowship or grant (the specific list of qualifying NEH programs is provided in the Notice of Funding Opportunity under the "Allowable Books" section). The program supports either forthcoming books that will be open access at first publication, or already-published books, as long as they were published, reissued, or released in a new edition during or after calendar year 2010. In other words, it can help convert a qualifying recent backlist title to open access, or ensure that a new title launches as open access from day one.
Eligibility is focused on the publisher rather than the author. Applicants must be publishers that have published, during or after 2010, a book tied to research supported by one of the NEH programs that the NOFO deems eligible. The eligible applicant types include U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status, as well as accredited public institutions of higher education or 501(c)(3) institutions of higher education (both public/state-controlled and private IHEs are included). The program is categorized as a discretionary grant in the humanities (CFDA 45.169), and it is administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number 20250312 DR and an application deadline of March 12, 2025 (original closing date). Overall, the program is best understood as a practical open access publishing support mechanism: it helps qualified publishers cover the work needed to produce a compliant Creative Commons-licensed e-book edition and make it freely downloadable, expanding public access to scholarship that NEH has already invested in through earlier fellowships and grants.Apply for 20250312 DR
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fellowships Open Book Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.169.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-23.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-12. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,600.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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