Amherst College Press Names Founding Director | Amherst College

"The Amherst College Press (ACP), a pathbreaking initiative for open-access scholarly publishing in the humanities, will be led by Mark D. W. Edington, Amherst College announced today. Edington, a social entrepreneur with an extensive background in higher education, will guide Amherst’s digital-first publishing venture, which will solicit and edit peer-reviewed books written by leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences and then make them freely available online. Edington is currently the executive director of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, an advanced, cross-university research facility in the behavioral sciences. He will begin his duties as director of the ACP on Jan. 1 ..."