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Leuven University Press Expands its Open Access Collection by Flipping Recent Backlist Titles
30th September, 2025 in Latest news
As a scholarly publisher Leuven University Press takes Open Access book publishing to heart. Thanks to continued efforts of its parent institute KU Leuven and the structural support of various Diamond OA-consortia, the Press has managed to diversify its Open Access publishing models and to open up its academic book collection significantly, both front list and back list titles, in order to allow free access to its high-qualified scholarly content.
On the occasion of the international Open Access Week 2025, Leuven University Press is pleased to announce that the following selection of recent backlist titles is now freely available in Open Access to readers worldwide:
In the book series Translation, Interpreting and Mediation
- Personality Matters: The Translator’s Personality in the Process of Self-Revision, by Olha Lehka-Paul (2020)
- Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies: Playing with the Black Box of Cultural Transfer, edited by Maud Gonne, Klaartje Merrigan, Reine Meylaerts, Heleen van Gerwen (2020)
- Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives, edited by Peter J. Freeth, Rafael Treviño (2024)
- Recharting Territories: Interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies, edited by Gisele Dionísio da Silva, Maura Radicioni (2022)
- Situatedness and Performativity: Translation and Interpreting Practice Revisited, edited by Raquel Pacheco Aguilar, Marie-France Guénette (2021) [will follow shortly in November 2025]
In the book series Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
- The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach, by David Pinho Barros (2022)
- Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics, by Mark McKinney (2021)
- Visualising Small Traumas: Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma, by Pedro Moura (2022)
For all Open Access scholarly monographs and edited volumes published by Leuven University Press: Browse our Open Access publications >
For more information on the Press’s Open Access policy and publishing models, visit the Open Access menu or contact publish@lup.be.
With thanks to our partners who support us in making Open Access publishing a reality for as many as possible:
Related Publications
Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies
Maud Gonne (Editor), Klaartje Merrigan (Editor), Reine Meylaerts (Editor), Heleen van Gerwen (Editor),
September 2025
Situatedness and Performativity
Raquel Pacheco Aguilar (Editor), Marie-France Guénette (Editor),
November 2025
Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility
Peter J. Freeth (Editor), Rafael Treviño (Editor),
September 2025
