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Six titles from the OpenEdition Books Select package have now been published in open access on OpenEdition Books and will soon be published on OAPEN.OpenEdition Books Select is the firstcrowdfunding programme for scientific publishing in French. Launched in 2018 inpartnership with KnowledgeUnlatched and the Couperin consortium, this unprecedented project aims to publish in open access abundle of books by major publishers in the humanities and social sciences. Thecrowdfunding campaign is aimed at libraries around the world, enabling them tooffer any reader access to French-language content of the highest quality. Thisethical and transparent model is based on a collaboration between publishersand libraries committed to open science.The works published in this first phase of theproject are new releases published between late 2018 and early 2019. These arethe six titles:Le cinéma ou le dernier des arts (PressesUniversitaires de Rennes) Le théâtre de Dumas père, entre héritage etrenouvellement (Presses Universitaires de Rennes) Enquêter, former, publier au cœur de la cité (IESÉditions) Cases-pixels : une histoire de la BD numérique en France (Presses universitaires François-Rabelais) Les mises en guerre de l’État (ENS Éditions) Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web ? (OpenEditionPress)We warmly thank the institutions that have contributed to releasing these books. The other titlesin the bundle (including 4 new releases and 20 backlist titles) may also bepublished in open access should other libraries offer their support. Librarieshave the opportunity to participate in the campaign until 30 April 2019.For any additional information, please contact us at the following address: oebselect[at]openedition.org.