Amherst College Press
Amherst College Press, founded in 2014, is a new university press (NUP) sponsored by Amherst College, Massachusetts that specializes in open-access monographs. Initially organized by members of the Amherst College Library, the press issues books via the Fulcrum publishing platform. The press, which is currently an affiliate of the Association of University Presses, publishes all of its digital work through platinum open access licenses.
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Amherst College Press
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- United States
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- Amherst College
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Overview
Amherst College Press, in partnership with Michigan Publishing and the Oberlin Group of Libraries, helped launch Lever Press in 2016.
Key facts
Key facts
• Parent — Amherst College Library • Founded — 2014 • Publications — Books • Url — acpress.amherst.edu/
Book series
Book series
Notable book and monograph series published by Amherst College Press include the following: • "Public Works: Insights from the Humanities on Issues in the Public Square" • "Studies in Ethnomusicology"
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The following is established of the heading itself. It is also recorded that amherst College Press is recorded from 2014. Associated with United States.
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that women of the commonwealth: work, family, and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts / edited by Susan L. It is also recorded that the Custom-made child?: women-centered perspectives / edited by Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Working-class women in the academy: laborers in the knowledge factory / edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Institutional cataloguing adds that amherst College Press is recorded as publishing house. It is also recorded that amherst College Press was established or created in 2014. Institutional cataloguing adds that amherst College Press is situated in United States.
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- 1.Adema, Janneke. The Surge in New University Presses and Academic- Led Publishing: An Overview of a Changing Publishing Ecology in the UK. LIBER Quarterly. 27. 1. 97–126. 2017. 10.18352/lq.10210.
- 2.Amherst College. About Amherst College Press.
- 3.Kim, Andrew. Press Aims to Provide Free Digital Content for All. The Amherst Student. March 13, 2014.
- 4.Howard, Jennifer. For New Ideas in Scholarly Publishing, Look to the Library. Chronicle of Higher Education. February 4, 2013.
- 5.Bouloukos, Beth M. Varieties of University Press Business Models V: Open Access. H-Net. November 9, 2022.
- 6.Association of University Presses. Our Members.
- 7.Free, David. Oberlin Group, Partners launch Lever Press. College & Research Libraries News. 77. 2. 58. 2016. 10.5860/crln.77.2.9440.
- 8.Association of American University Presses. Directory 2016: Information on Scholarly Presses in the U.S., Canada, and Overseas. 30–31. 2016.
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