From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:42:33 -0400 The Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries have an ongoing scholarly communications task force, comprising provosts and librarians from leading institutions. This group released just a few days ago a proposal to support a critical early phase of scholarly publishing. Given the source, this is a project with very good prospects. "Prospectus for an Institutionally Funded First-book Subvention" http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/aau-arl-prospectus-for-institutionally-funded-first-book-subvention-june2014.pdf Thoughts? Jim O'Donnell Georgetown