The award will provide $15,000 per academic monograph paid to a participating university press publisher on the author's behalf to make a digital copy of the monograph available free of charge on the open web under a Creative Commons license through sites such as the Directory of Open Access Books, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, JSTOR's Open Content, MuseOpen, and OAPEN Library.
The Prague Declaration, also published as part of this monograph (available as Supplemental Material online at http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/10517/suppl.pdf), summarizes issues upon which the majority of scientists can agree, outlines research priorities for the next decade, and highlights steps that can be taken today to prevent health risks to humans and wildlife.
Abstract: Many Latin American scholarly monographs are available for free to read and download in a scattered fashion across the web, hosted on educational, institutional and government websites as well as commercial websites and publishing platforms.
The Duke Open Monograph Award is a part of a collaborative project developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of University Presses (AUP) called Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME), which is an effort to make more scholarly monographs openly available on a broad scale.
The 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th through 52nd series of FAS monographs are available in HTML format.
The monographs are available for view and download at the WHO JECFA Web site in chronological order.
IARC staff first use previous IARC Monographs (if available), database searches using relevant text strings, and contact with investigators in the field to identify potentially relevant material.
Applicants must submit this form, which requires an executive summary of the content of your monograph and your goals for making your monograph openly available online (approximately 300-500 words).
The accompanying monograph is available here.
The complete monograph is available here.
