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🔓 BOOK RELEASE 🔓 ACP's newest release: Critical Making in the Age of AI by Emily K. Johnson and Anastasia Salter Available now to read #openaccess at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

Congrats to Shredding the Map author, Edith Clowes for being awarded AATSEEL's Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship award!

🔓 BOOK RELEASE 🔓 ACP's newest release, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media. Available now to read #openaccess as at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

NOW HIRING: Marketing and Communications Manager The MCM develops all internal and external Press communications and title-level marketing; they oversee all promotional planning functions for the Press’s booklist and open access model Learn more and apply: amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Amherst_…

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Abortion opponents say that the FDA rushed through approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in the 1990s, but history shows the exact opposite: FDA slow walked approval of the medication because of antiabortion political attacks and extremist violence. theregreview.org/2025/01/13/bak…

Abortion Pills: US History and Politics recommendation: "A long-time writer and contributing editor for Ms., Carrie Baker is an expert on reproductive rights in the U.S. Well-researched and accessibly written, we need this guidance now more than ever." msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/bes…

"[Carrie Baker's] book offers important historical and political context for understanding [the future of abortion pill advocacy] and fighting back against misinformation about the history of abortion pills." politicsrights.com/reproductive-c…

.@CarrieNBaker (@smithcollege) recently joined @NewBooksAmStudi to discuss her new book, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics," the first comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States. #ReproductiveRights 🎙️ Listen now: buff.ly/4f3Yir2

"'Pills have become the frontline of the battle for abortion access,' writes professor and Ms. contributor editor Carrie N. Baker in her new book—the first to offer a comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States." msmagazine.com/2024/11/27/new…

My new book on the history and politics of abortion pills is out! @Plancpills @smithcollege @AmCollPress @AmherstCollege @oipassoc #mifepristone #mife #abortion Available open access at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

🔓 BOOK RELEASE 🔓 ACP's newest release, Abortion Pills: US History and Politics by Carrie N. Baker. Available to read #openaccess at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

Flash giveaways at #ASEEES24! Taking a cue from the cool houses that give out full size candy bars on Halloween, we have your sugar fix here! And books! If you will consider teaching or reviewing one of our books, we’ve got copies to give away starting at 10:30 am

🔓 BOOK RELEASE 🔓 ACP's newest release, Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method edited by Milena Droumeva. Available now to read #openaccess as at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

Amherst College Press is proud to announce our support for University-Based Publishing Futures. We have become a signatory to the UBPF community statement. publishingfutures.hcommons.org/signatories/

We proudly host #OpenAccess collections from a variety of scholarly presses. 🔓🌎📚 As #OAWeek comes to a close, here's your reminder that hundreds of titles are completely free to read online on our ebook platform. Start browsing (and reading!) today: myumi.ch/W5nQR

Our latest blog for #OAWeek: @diogoccabral reflects on his experience of publishing with a predominantly #OpenAccess uni press, including how being based in the #GlobalSouth can make it hard to access #humanities research. uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/reflec… #LatinAmerica #History @oipassoc

Happy International Open Access Week! Be sure to check out @oipassoc to learn more about the exciting developments in #OpenAccess

"Today we are facing a crisis of the imagination. The problems of the present can be given context and solutions by understanding the past and future, if we can allow ourselves to imagine a perspective different from our own." acpress.amherst.edu/blog/2024-10-1… #VirtualReality

🔓 BOOK RELEASE 🔓 ACP's newest release, the first English translation of an early queer novel previously only available in the original Czech. Available now to read #openaccess as at doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…