Temple University Press is part of a group of university publishers banding together to reduce costs in order to increase output, according to the Library Journal, a trade publication for librarians.

The collaboration, funded by a $1.7 million Mellon grant to be spread out over five years, is focused on reducing the costs of scholarly publishing by establishing a “joint operation” for copy editing and design.

In addition to Temple, the university presses of Rutgers, Virginia, Fordham and New York University, which will manage the grant, are all participating.

This is the first of other planned partnerships between university presses. Two mentioned in the report were a joint Slavic studies collective between Northwestern University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press and the University of Wisconsin Press, in addition to an ethnomusicology effort partnering Temple with Indiana and Kent State.