1 http://www.northerncollaboration.org.uk/ .
3 http://librarypublishing.org/about-us .
4 Crossick’s report on Monographs and Open Access does not mention Academic-Led Initiatives at all (it focuses on Learned Societies and mission-driven presses instead) and Martin Eve’s Open Access in the Humanities only mentions them shortly in passing as part of a ‘a Do It Yourself approach’ to publishing (Crossick, 2015; Eve, 2014, p. 24–25).
5 The Radical Open Access Conference (2015), which took place at Coventry University was an important face-to-face setting where many Academic-Led Publishing initiatives gathered together to discuss issues around scholarly communication, publishing and open access in the humanities.
6 Joe Deville from Mattering Press explained that Annemarie Mol’s counterposing of the logic of care to the logic of calculation lies at the basis of this (Mol, 2008). Here the focus is on attending to the diverse forms of relationality at play within publishing, which includes an acknowledgement of the various agencies involved in the publishing process, both human and non-human.
7 Eileen Joy from punctum books describes this as “material that is kind of academic but then it is also doing other things”.
8 This does not mean, Joy stressed, that there should not be uniformity in things such as preservation.
9 See Stone (2016) for an example on financial return for NUPs.
10 University Press and Publishing News: UNIVERSITYPRESS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK.
11 Other authors have contributed to this discussion, listing a variety of services that can be captured within each tier (De Groote & Case, 2014; Hahn, 2008; Mullins et al., 2012; Perry et al., 2011).