Northwestern Open is an online platform providing open access to previously out-of-print titles published by Northwestern University Press. With the generous support of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint effort of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern is proud to make available important and groundbreaking works in philosophy, literary criticism, and African studies. Access to the collection is free and open to scholars and the public alike.

Northwestern University Press is proud to partner with TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—to make selected titles freely available, electronically, in an open access edition.

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Northwestern University Press is proud to partner with Knowledge Unlatched—a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good—to make selected titles freely available, electronically, in an open access edition.

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