From: Heidi McGregor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:42:54 +0000

Dear colleagues,



Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), a centralized service supporting the shared
needs of Florida’s 40 public colleges and universities, has joined *Path to
Open <https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/>*, a pilot program to support
the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will
bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.



Path to Open launched in 2023 as a collaboration among JSTOR, a nonprofit
service of ITHAKA, The University of Michigan Press, the University of
North Carolina Press, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The
program now has the support of nearly 150 libraries around the world, and
42 presses. FLVC marks Path to Open’s largest library consortia commitment
to date with funding for the full 2024-2026 pilot period. This agreement
gives all 2 and 4-year public colleges and universities in Florida access
to Path to Open books as they are published and helps to ensure that more
than 1,000 new books from university presses and their authors will be
published through this new sustainable open access model.



Read the full *press release*
<https://about.jstor.org/news/florida-virtual-campus-joins-path-to-open/>.



Heidi



Heidi McGregor

VP, Communications

ITHAKA



ITHAKA’s mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people
around the world. We believe education is key to the well-being of
individuals and society. Through our work, we make higher education and
access to knowledge more affordable, improve outcomes for students and
researchers, and preserve knowledge for future generations. Our services
include: Constellate, Ithaka S+R, JSTOR/Artstor, and Portico. Learn more at
www.ithaka.org.