7 October 2019
The University Press Library is the result of a five-year pilot project initiated by De Gruyter, the three presses of Harvard, Columbia and Princeton with collaboration from LYRASIS and ten participating academic libraries. The pilot project sought to address the challenges of acquiring complete DRM-free frontlist e-book collections of university press content for both the press and the academic library. The data gathered from this pilot inspired the University Press Library, a sustainable model that aims to meet the financial and academic needs of both university press partners and the library in a digital environment.