Open access monographs

[Sigi Jöttkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>]

David Ottina wrote:
>  What's the best way to involve
> libraries/consortia?
>
>
>   
Perhaps we could issue an invitation to participate through the ARL 
mailing list? I'm happy to work on it and we can also perhaps use it as 
the beginnings of a Mellon proposal.

There was an interesting report by Karla L. Hahn in the June bimonthly 
ARL report, from which I'm extracting below. Essentially her point was 
that libraries, if they are to become publishers, will need to find new 
resources from institutional leadership rather than shuffling existing 
budgets:

"The time is also ripe for library leadership and increasingly
for campus leadership to give thoughtful consideration
to the potential, the goals, the resource needs, and the
value of investing in and fostering this rapidly evolving
mode of university publishing. The question is no
longer whether libraries should offer publishing
services, but what kinds of services will libraries offer."

Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University 
Publishing and New Roles for Libraries 
<http://www.arl.org/bm%7Edoc/arl-br-258-res-lib-pub.pdf>
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br258.shtml

Best,
Sigi