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G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
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Private Academic Library Network of Indiana 
(PALNI) has been awarded $520,000 by the
Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. 
for PALSave, an affordable education initia-
tive that will combat rising textbook costs 
and their detrimental effects on student 
success and retention. The average cost 
of textbooks annually is about $1,300.  
Research from The Student Public Interest 
Research Groups and U.S. PIRG Education 
Fund shows that some students have to 
borrow more to pay for college, are likely 
not to buy required materials at some 
point, and might even drop a class because 
of text prices. PALNI offers the PALSave 
program in response to this need and to 
help provide a proactive solution to text-
book affordability. The grant will enable 
PALNI to support course transformations 
using course materials which are free to 
students, focusing on Open Educational 
Resources worldwide. The project will 
develop expertise, tools, and content to be 
used in the course redesign process, and 
also build community around affordable 
learning within the 24 PALNI-supported 
institutions. This collaborative structure 
between faculty, instructional technolo-
gists, librarians, and institutions will allow 
for innovation and rapid growth over the 
five-year program. Progress and impact 
will be provided and updated on the PAL-
Save website: https://palsave.palni.org/.

Penn State will commit $45,000 to an ini- 
tiative designed to support the peer-re-
viewed, open access monographs known 
as Toward Open Monograph Ecosystem 
(TOME). Launched in 2017, TOME is a 
higher education initiative that provides 

publishing grants of up to $15,000 for 
open access editions of peer-reviewed 
and professionally edited monographs. 
This five-year project will fund approxi-
mately three awards each year. The ini-
tiative will allow open access to digital 
monographs and will make new research 
freely available online in order to in-
crease the presence of humanities and 
social science scholarship on the web 
and provide content to more readers. The 
funding will be split among up to three 
subvention grants to support publishing 
open access monographs each year for 
five years (2018–2023). Each grant will be 
contributed directly to a press participating 
in the program for an open access pub-
lication of an eligible Penn State faculty-
authored work. Currently, 14 universities 
have pledged support for this initiative, 
which was created as a collaborative ef-
fort between the Association of American 
Universities, the Association of Research 
Libraries, the Association of Public and 
Land Grant Universities, and the Associa-
tion of University Presses. These organiza-
tions are jointly seeking options to replace 
traditional models of publishing. Project 
proposals must have written acceptance 
for publication from a press participating 
in TOME and be a monograph authored 
or coauthored by a full-time Penn State 
faculty member. Project proposals must 
have a written acceptance for open ac-
cess publication from a press participating 
in TOME, excluding textbooks, works of 
fiction, creative works, edited antholo-
gies, translations of previously published 
works, or critical editions. Presses who are 
interested in applying for TOME funding 
should submit an application through the 
TOME website at https://libraries.psu.edu 
/services/scholarly-publishing-services 
/penn-state-tome-initiative.  

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