# Case studies

- [Ubiquity Press,](https://www.ubiquitypress.com/) an academic-led press and a publishing platform was launched in 2008 to support one small society-owned journal which could not find a sustainable provider to go online and flip to Open Access. Initially, they were focused on journals and used the OJS system ([Jisc Interviews](https://toolkit.openbookcollective.org/books/02-key-resources-and-sources/page/jisc-interviews), Brian Hole).
- [punctum books](https://punctumbooks.com/) was launched by a group of academics who saw a need for a “fringe” press that would publish work that was not very popular with universities and mainstream publishers “cultivating the avant-garde, the weird, the misfit, the vagabond” (Jisc Interviews, Eileen Joy).
- [MediaCommons Press](https://mcpress.media-commons.org/) is an offspring of [MediaCommons](http://mediacommons.org/), a community network for scholars, students, and practitioners in media studies, promoting exploration of new forms of publishing within the field. MediaCommons was founded in 2006 in collaboration with the [Institute for the Future of the Book](http://futureofthebook.org/), and was relaunched in 2008 with support from the [National Endowment for the Humanities](http://www.neh.gov/) and the collaboration of the [NYU Libraries Digital Library Technology Services](http://dlib.nyu.edu/). (Jisc Interviews, Kathleen Fitzpatrick).
- [meson press](https://meson.press/) also​​ grew out of a project – the [Hybrid Publishing Lab](https://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-incubator-lueneburg/digital-media/hybrid-publishing-lab.html), which was a research lab looking into digital publishing and Open Access, funded by the European Union (Jisc Interviews, Mercedes Bunz).
- [Open Book Publishers](https://www.openbookpublishers.com/), the largest independent academic-led press in the UK, was launched and run by a group of academics disillusioned with costs of books published by commercial presses ([Jisc Interviews](https://toolkit.openbookcollective.org/books/02-key-resources-and-sources/page/jisc-interviews), Rupert Gatti).
- [Language Science Press](https://langsci-press.org/) was established with a subsidy from the [Freie Universität Berlin](https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html) and transferred to the [Humboldt Univeristät zu Berlin](https://www.hu-berlin.de/en), which offered to continue sponsoring the press. Both institutions are linked to one of the founders and directors, Prof. Stefan Müller (Jisc Interviews, Sebastian Nordhoff).
- [Counter press](https://counterpress.org.uk/) evolved from the [Critical Legal Thinking ](https://criticallegalthinking.com/)blog after the editors realised that their content was highly popular with readers and could be easily turned into a book format (Jisc Interviews, Stephen Connelly).