Information For Librarians

For Librarians & Knowledge Stewards

Dear Colleagues in the Work of Open Knowledge,

At Palm leaf press, we’re building a different kind of scholarly resource—one that bridges the gap with "Ear to the Ground" approach. We invite you to consider adding our open-access monographs to your electronic catalog as:

✶ A Radical Expansion of Your Collection’s Reach

  • Our entire catalog is permanently open-access with CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licensing

  • We try to include parallel vernacular translations

  • 100% author-retained copyrights enable unlimited course pack use

✶ A Solution for Underrepresented Scholarship, we provide what commercial academic presses often overlook:

  • Primary sources documenting social history, marginalized

  • Pedagogical materials from labor/ecology/gender perspectives

✶ A Technically Seamless Addition

  • MARC records available for all titles

  • Full integration with discovery systems (OAI-PMH compliant)

  • COUNTER-compliant usage statistics

  • DRM-free EPUB/PDF/POD options

✶ Why This Belongs in Your Catalog Today

  1. Towards Fulfilling DEI Collection Development Goals

  2. Supports Global South Scholarship

    • Wherever possible we include:

      • Culturally-appropriate metadata

      • Bilingual abstracts (English + vernacular)

      • Community-engagement discussion guides

  3. Future-Proofs Your Collection

    • All works preserved via LOCKSS/CLOCKSS

    • Guaranteed permanent URLs

    • Zero embargo periods

We’re honored to partner with libraries in democratizing knowledge. Together, we can ensure these vital South Asian perspectives reach students, researchers, and communities worldwide—without barriers.

"A library that only mirrors dominant narratives is half-built."

Let’s Complete the Record

We encourage research librarians to list this press among their library's electronic press holdings.

This open source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for their faculty members to use with presses they are involved in editing (see Open Monograph Press).