(11 Nov 2025) In the effort to remove barriers to the publishing of research and the pursuit of knowledge, university presses and libraries are natural partners. Case studies from three of our institutions—Temple University, University of Liverpool, and Brown University—describe collaborative initiatives between presses and libraries: how they came to fruition, their long-term benefits for both parties, and, ultimately, how they support publishers’ and libraries’ mutual goals of advancing open access scholarly communication, fostering diversity, and broadening access to knowledge.
The case studies consider:
- Brown University Digital Publications, a library-based program through which Brown, in partnership with scholarly publishers, supports the digital publication of open access, multimodal scholarship. Among other initiatives, the program offers training workshops for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) scholars and library professionals seeking to gain expertise in developing open access, born-digital scholarship.
- Trailblazers, a new open access initiative from Liverpool University Press, now run partnership with libraries at six UK universities, that champions early-career researchers.
- North Broad Press, a joint imprint from Temple University Press and the Temple University Library that publishes peer-reviewed open textbooks by Temple faculty.
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