From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:56:09 -0500

http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/michigan-publishing-collaborates-launch-lever-press

Michigan Publishing, the publishing division of the University of
Michigan Library, will launch a new open-access book-publishing
imprint, Lever Press, in collaboration with Amherst College Press and
the Oberlin Group, a consortium of 80 libraries in America's top
liberal arts colleges.

Lever Press will publish digital-native titles distinguished by three
key features: editorial alignment with the mission and ethos of
liberal arts colleges; a "platinum" approach to open access in which
the pledging institutions rather than authors pay all publishing
costs; and digitally native production processes designed to support
innovative projects that go "beyond the book."

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Nearly 40 liberal arts college libraries—most of them members of the
Oberlin Group, along with Allegheny College and Ursinus College—have
committed more than $1 million to the work of Lever Press over the
next five years. Librarians and faculty members at these institutions
will also comprise the press's oversight committee and editorial
board. Supported by these pledges, Lever Press aims to acquire,
develop, produce and disseminate a total of 60 new open-access titles
by the end of 2020.