Knowledge Unlatched
"Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access (OA) infrastructure. Our online marketplace provides libraries and institutions worldwide with a central place to support OA collections and models from leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives. With their support we transition monographs and journals in a wide variety of disciplines from paywalled to Open Access content." The UB Libraries are one of more than 600 institutional partners around the world supporting Knowledge Unlatched open publishing initiatives.

Lever Press

Lever Press is a fully open access liberal arts publisher. All of its monographs are freely available to readers on the web immediately upon publication. Its monographs are "platinum" or "diamond" open access, meaning that all the costs of acquiring, editing, developing, and producing are borne collectively by supporting institutions, not by authors or their sponsoring departments or institutions. The University at Buffalo Libraries are a proud member. 

Lever Press is a member of the Association of University Presses (AUP). However, it is is unlike most university presses. It is not affiliated with a single university, but instead represents a consortium of institutions that govern and guide the press's operations. 

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
The TOME program was an experiment that brought together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of these common goals: a sustainable open monograph ecosystem, support for authors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, and a strengthened network of university presses. This program launched in 2017 as a five-year collaborative pilot project involving the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUP). UB was one of the original participating TOME partners. The following UB-authored monographs were published open access under the program:

• Liu, Y. (2021). Healing with poisons: Potent medicines in Medieval China. University of Washington Press.
• McAlonie, K.H. (2023). Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every woman her own architect. SUNY Press.
• Valente, J, & Backus, M.G. (2020). The child sex scandal and modern Irish literature: Writing the unspeakable. Indiana University Press.
• Varnado, C. (2020). The shapes of fancy: Reading for queer desire in early modern literature. University of Minnesota Press.

The TOME experiment ended on December 31, 2022.

If you are a UB author interested in publishing an open access monograph, the contact person is Chris Hollister, Head of Scholarly Communication: 

Telephone: (716) 645-1323
Email: cvh2@buffalo.edu