Gutenberg-e, a digital book project jointly developed by the American Historical Association and Columbia University, is now open and available to anyone with an internet connection. Gutenberg-e currently provides full-text access to 22 scholarly history monographs with a 2000 or later copyright date. Eventually 36 award-winning titles will be made available through both the project’s website and the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project.
The project hoped to find out whether or not “born digital” history monographs can compete with scholarly monographs published under a traditional print model. The good news is that the young scholars who authored the e-Books in Gutenberg-e all received tenure at their respective institutions. For more information about the project see the AHA Today announcement and this post on Library Journal’s Academic NewsWire.