ACLS Open Book Prize + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award
This prize honors exceptional open access monographs in the humanities and interpretative social sciences, rewarding both authors and publishers for scholarly excellence and innovative, accessible publishing.
Funder: American Council of Learned Societies
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Final submission deadline for ACLS Open Book Prize + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award)
Funding Amounts: $20,000 cash prize to author(s) and $30,000 publishing award to publisher per winning book; one award per category.
Summary: Recognizes outstanding open access monographs in the humanities and interpretative social sciences, rewarding both authors and publishers for excellence and innovation.
Key Information: Publishers must submit entries; authors cannot submit independently.
Description
The ACLS Open Book Prize + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is an annual competition that celebrates exceptional, peer-reviewed open access monographs in the humanities and interpretative social sciences. The prize aims to promote scholarly excellence, innovative publishing practices, and broad, equitable access to humanistic research. Awards are given in multiple categories, including Anthropology, Environmental Humanities, History, Literary/Media Studies, Multimodal works, and Political Science. Each winning author receives a cash prize, and their publisher receives funding to support further open access publishing.
