About the Publisher

University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing works with academic authors to publish digital monographs, journals, and textbooks at no cost to readers. Our publishing services align with the University’s land-grant mission of “promoting access to higher education and collaborating to advance knowledge benefiting communities, the state, and world.” The core principles of UMN Libraries Publishing are:

• We believe the Libraries serves as a critical, central resource for publishing expertise on campus and our essential services should be offered without charge.
• We support scholars by contributing quality, scholarly works to the public commons through open access publishing.
• We practice transparent production processes in order to promote critical understanding of the publishing landscape’s range of production and economic models.
• We support intellectual freedom by keeping the means of production in the hands of scholars.
• We seek to create partnerships on campus and beyond, to help shape the future of scholarly publishing.
• We support innovative publications and scholarly experimentation grounded in widely-used standards and time-proven practices.
• We believe that the scholarly ecosystem works best when creators retain their copyright.
• We leverage replicable and scalable tools and services to support the economic sustainability of common publishing activities on campus.
• We work to decrease the cost of higher education for students through the production and integration of open content into course curriculum.
• We provide leadership to the broader library publishing professional community on developing new models of scholarly publishing.