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.”