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."