Archive for the tag "Association of American University Presses"
Not a Crisis, a Transition
Chronicle staffer Jennifer Howard reported from the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, where the incoming president, Richard Brown of Georgetown University Press, challenged the idea that scholarly publishing is in crisis. A crisis, when it isn’t resolved for decades, becomes a way of life, and his preferred description for that way [...]
Posted: 21 June, 2010 in Books, information industries, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: Association of American University Presses
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Are Books Next? About Time!
Jennifer Howard of The Chronicle reports on two heartening developments for academic publishing. One is that a company is providing easy-to-use software for managing digital content for university presses. It has been hard for UPs, which are in most cases very small enterprises with extremely tight budgets, to have the time and resources to develop [...]
Posted: 2 October, 2008 in Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: Association of American University Presses, Bloomsbury, book publishing, Creative Commons, Open Access, Tizra
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