Press Release: HARRASSOWITZ Partners with Purchase to Open Initiative to Advance Open Access for Academic Books

From: <eklee_at_HARRASSOWITZ.DE> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:11:08 +0100 To: ACQNET_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG

Greetings, 

I would like to draw your attention to today's press release: 

HARRASSOWITZ Partners with Purchase to Open Initiative to Advance Open 
Access for Academic Books

Wiesbaden, Germany – March 26, 2026. 

HARRASSOWITZ, leading supplier of scholarly content published throughout 
Europe, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Purchase to Open 
(P2O) initiative, continuing its support of open access content for 
academic monographs.

Purchase to Open is a collaborative funding model that brings together 
libraries, publishers, and booksellers to make high-quality scholarly 
books openly accessible. By combining established acquisition workflows 
with a community-based pledging scheme, P2O allows libraries to support 
the open access publication of individual titles in a transparent and 
efficient way.

Under the P2O model, publishers submit upcoming publications with a 
defined funding target. Libraries can then pledge their support via their 
preferred bookseller. If enough institutions participate and the funding 
threshold is reached, the title is published open access. If the threshold 
is not met, participating libraries still receive perpetual access to the 
e-book through a standard campus license.

Seamless Integration into Library Workflows:

P2O titles are now included in Fokus, the HARRASSOWITZ system for 
acquisition and management of scholarly resources. Users can make their 
pledges directly at the selection / ordering level by using existing 
workflows and templates. In addition, where titles match subject profiles, 
HARRASSOWITZ will send New Title Announcements which link back to the 
records in Fokus.

HARRASSOWITZ is pleased to continue its support of moving content to open 
access and building tools to assist libraries with all open access models. 

For questions regarding Purchase to Open or any of our open access 
services, please contact your Regional Sales Manager or 
service_at_harrassowitz.de .

About HARRASSOWITZ
Established in 1872, HARRASSOWITZ has been serving libraries around the 
world for more than 150 years. Customers value HARRASSOWITZ for the 
quality and accuracy of its services and for its industry-leading and 
innovative solutions. HARRASSOWITZ specializes in providing a 
comprehensive range of high-quality collection support services to 
academic and research libraries for e-content, periodicals, continuations, 
books, and music scores.
For more information, see https://www.harrassowitz.de .

About Purchase-to-Open (P2O)
Purchase to Open is a collaborative, cross-publisher initiative operated 
by Transform to Open GmbH that enables the open access publication of 
scholarly books through collective library funding and integration into 
existing acquisition workflows. P2O promotes high-quality content from the 
humanities and social sciences in a particularly resource-efficient 
manner.
For more information, see https://purchase-to-open.com .

Best regards
Edith Klee

Edith Klee
Head
Central Services

Phone: +49-611-530 501
Fax: +49-611-530-560
Email: eklee_at_harrassowitz.de
Web: https://www.harrassowitz.de	
	Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG
	Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung & Zeitschriftenagentur
	Booksellers & Subscription Agents
	Livres & Périodiques
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	65205 Wiesbaden, Germany

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