Puget Sound Joins Lever Press: Open Access Scholarship
Supporting Publication of Research in the Liberal Arts
I’m writing to make you aware of this new publishing initiative that the Collins Library, the Dean, and the Library, Media and Information Services Committee are supporting and to encourage you to consider submitting ideas for publications to this press.
The Lever Press is a peer-reviewed, digitally native, open-access press supported by a consortium of 44 liberal arts college libraries. Undertaken in partnership with the Amherst College Press and Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan, the Lever Press offers scholars a press with the highest scholarly standards, yet “aligned with the mission and ethos of liberal arts colleges.” All works will appear in print, and will equally be available both as web-readable and downloadable titles.
Lever Press has recently announced its inaugural editorial board and has opened an online pathway at this link for receiving proposals for both individual works and series of works. I encourage you, as your summer research plans take shape, to consider submitting your ideas for consideration in what I believe will become a voice in scholarly publishing distinguished by the rigor and accessibility that is the mark of excellence in liberal arts colleges.
Puget Sound, along with other colleges such as Amherst, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Middlebury, Pomona, Reed, Spelman, Vassar and Whitman, takes the scholarly communication crisis seriously and is willing to step forward with a solution that will certainly advance the mission of liberal arts colleges. A summary of the project, authored by Barbara Fister of Gustavus Adolphus College, appeared in Inside Higher Ed.
-Jane Carlin
Library Director
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