Fellowships Open Book Program
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NEH offers $6,600 grants to publishers for open access digital editions of books based on NEH-funded research, using Creative Commons licenses.
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Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Dates: July 16, 2025 | November 12, 2025
Funding Amounts: Fixed award of $6,600 per book; 12-month project period; no cost sharing required.
Summary: Supports nonprofit publishers in releasing open access digital editions of books based on NEH-funded research, under a Creative Commons license.
Key Information: Book must be based on NEH-funded research and published (or reissued) in 2010 or later; author(s) must receive a $600 royalty.
Description
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships Open Book Program provides fixed-amount grants to nonprofit publishers to make outstanding humanities books freely available as open access e-books. Eligible books must be based on research supported by an NEH fellowship or grant and published, reissued, or released in a new edition during or after 2010. The program aims to broaden access to high-quality humanities scholarship by leveraging digital publishing and Creative Commons licensing.
