Rockefeller University Press adopts Creative Commons license policy

Rockefeller University Press has just announced that it will follow a
Creative Commons license for its journals.   An explanatory editorial
by the executive editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and the executive director of the press is online at:
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200804037
Ray English
Director of Libraries
Oberlin College
thanks Ray

Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid

Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership; Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid
ITHACA, NY and DURHAM, NC, USA (April 11, 2008) – In a publishing agreement that reaches across boundaries by bringing together a leading U.S. academic research library and one of the nation’s outstanding university presses, Cornell University Library (Cornell) [...]

Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions

http://www.virginiafoundation.org/NEH%20Workshop%20Report%20FINAL-3.pdf
On January 14, 2008, a group of editors, representatives from university presses, and
other stakeholders met to discuss the future of scholarly editions and how they might best
be supported in the digital age. This workshop was funded by the Digital Humanities
Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities [...]

Five American university presses collaborate for scholarly publishing

Five American university presses collaborate for scholarly publishing – 04 Jan 2008
Five university presses have reportedly announced a collaboration to find a way to reduce costs of scholarly publishing and allow for more books to be released. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the collaboration will set up a joint operation for copy editing, [...]