Coalition of College Libraries, including Bowdoin, Launches New Press | Bowdoin News

"A collaboration of college libraries across the country, including Bowdoin, are starting up a new publishing outfit that aims to shake up the world of academic publishing. By making its titles available for free on the Internet, the new Lever Press will fulfill the library group’s objective of widening access to new scholarly books and offering an alternative publishing venue, particularly for scholars who teach at liberal arts colleges. Lever Press is an outgrowth of the Oberlin Group, a consortium of 80 libraries of liberal arts colleges. Nearly half of the members have teamed up with Amherst College Press and Michigan Publishing to establish the new open-access, peer-reviewed publishing venture. Lever will initially focus on books in the social sciences, the humanities and the arts ..."