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Open Access Week: Building Equity in Scholarly Publishing

“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for Open Access Week this year—and the SU Libraries and SU Press are both helping to build a scholarly publishing community centered on equitable access for all. In the spring of 2023, the Libraries subscribed to the Path to Open collection at the same time that SU Press signed up to make some of its e-books available through this pilot program. This innovative initiative comes from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in partnership with the University of Michigan Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and JSTOR. It aims to create a…


Open Access Week: The demand for accessible scholarship

Figuring out how to make open access sustainable—free to authors, free to readers, and financially manageable for presses and libraries, with their highly skilled, highly dedicated staff—that’s fulfilling our mission.




Q&A with Uncommon Allies author Alan Shore

Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945 illuminates the origins of this interfaith collaboration, demonstrating that Judeo-Christian values were present before the Holocaust. Using an impressive array of English and Yiddish newspapers to inform his work, Alan Shore paints a vivid picture of vibrant rallies at Madison Square Garden, with both Christians and Jews eager to speak out against the terror of Nazism. We sat down with Shore for a quick Q&A about the book and his research process. What pushed you to write this book now? What do you hope to accomplish with your audience? One…




Reading list: Examining Olympic success and athletic legacy

As we enter the final week of the 2026 Winter Olympics, we wanted to further explore the impact athletic competition can have, the potential of athletes to reshape discourse and culture, and the historical significance of trailblazing successes.