From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:29:07 -0600

A fuller account, with some comments I added, is available here:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/06/amherst-college-launches-open-access-scholarly-press

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:29:24 +0100
>
> From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
>
> Amherst College Introduces Open-Access Press for the Liberal Arts
>
> Amherst College's new digital-publishing effort, announced on
> Wednesday and known as Amherst College Press, will publish
> peer-reviewed contributions from scholars working in a small range of
> liberal-arts disciplines. The college plans to hire a director and two
> editors to run the new operation, which will be housed in the
> college's library and will produce books in formats common to most
> e-readers. The venture will not focus on print production or
> distribution, and all publications will include Creative Commons
> licenses, according to the college's announcement. "Current models of
> scholarly publishing do far more to lock down information than to
> disseminate it to those who need it," said Bryn Geffert, librarian of
> the college, in a news release. "We aim to change that."