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