BJS is a book series with a long and distinguished history, and I have the privilege of serving now as its Managing Editor. In addition to working on our publication list (we have recently published some terrific books, including Moshe Halbertal’s The Birth of Doubt, I have spent much of the past year running a program to digitize fifty of our back-titles and to make them open access, in perpetuity. We are just beginning to roll this out. The press release is below. Press Release April 21, 2020 Brown Judaic Studies (BJS) announces the launch of our Open Access Books program. During the 2019-2020 academic year, with the support of a grant from the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Books program, we have been digitizing about fifty titles from our backlist in order to make them publicly accessible at no cost in perpetuity. The books are available for download in different formats, including PDF, EPUB, HTML, and plain text (for text-mining). Most of the books have received additional copyediting and several contain new prefaces by the authors. Print on Demand editions of these new editions will also be available for purchase. BJS Open Books will be available on the Brown […]
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