Amherst College Press

Amherst College Library

Amherst College press

• https://acpress.amherst.edu/
• acpress@amherst.edu

Beth Bouloukos, Director
Email: bbouloukos@amherst.edu

Program Overview

Amherst College Press produces pathbreaking, peer-reviewed scholarship and makes it available to readers everywhere as digital, open access work. The press publishes titles in art history and visual studies, Latin American studies, literary studies, music, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies with a deep interest in interdisciplinary scholarship. We publish our books on Fulcrum, a platform created by University of Michigan Publishing, allowing narrative to be richly integrated with multimedia and optimized for long-term preservation and accessibility.

Amherst College Press is a member of the Association of University Presses and is fully funded by Amherst College.

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: monographs.

	2021	Open access	Paid	Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs	6	6
Newsletters
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses

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2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Library-administered university press publications:

For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.

	2021
Monographs	6

Highlights

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty

Best publications to refer to our program: monographs

Technologies & Services

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Service vendors: freelance publicist

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Additional Information

Other information:
https://acpress.amherst.edu/about/ Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Amherst College Press holds diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice as core values. As an extension of Amherst College, we recognize and acknowledge the Nonotuck land Amherst occupies, and we also acknowledge our neighboring Indigenous nations: the Nipmuc and the Wampanoag to the East, the Mohegan and Pequot to the South, the Mohican to the West, and the Abenaki to the North. ACP stands in solidarity with Black people and the movements centering Black lives and racial, economic, and educational justice. We recognize the need to educate ourselves and to continually emphasize the importance of working towards a scholarly community that listens, learns, and works to rectify past and present grievances. We also recognize the ways in which scholarly publishing has been complicit in perpetuating white supremacy and propping up systems of exclusion, from its reliance on opaque peer review practices and prohibitive pricing models to the industry’s predominantly white labor force. (See the 2019 Lee & Low Books survey of publishers that found the “publishing industry to be… 76% white, showing little change over 5 years in staff diversity across gender identity, race/ethnicity, dis/ability, and sexual orientation,” from the AUP Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism.) As a small open-access press based at Amherst College, we seek to offer a different model for how the work of scholarly publishing can be done and a voice not typically heard—from the distinctive perspective of a liberal-arts institution—among the institutions that produce published scholarship. We do not assume that our work ends there. Specific steps we have taken and plan to take in order to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at ACP include: Ensuring our Faculty Board is inclusive and representative of students and former students of Amherst College as well as the audiences we hope to reach with our publishing program. Contributing to industry-wide efforts in transparency around peer review and conducting regular audits on own peer review practices. Contributing to industry-wide efforts to seek out and amplify scholarship from underrepresented groups. Maintaining the mission of open access, including the removal of price and permissions barriers to readers, authors, and institutions. Developing and sustaining an internship program for Amherst College undergraduates in the hopes of creating pipeline opportunities for those who have been historically underrepresented in the publishing industry. Taking part in ongoing trainings and workshops led by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Amherst College; participating in the work of the Frost Library DEI committee.

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