Archive for the tag "university presses"
Sustaining Scholarship
As Jennifer Howard of the Chronicle reports, collaboration between libraries and presses was a theme at the most recent meeting of the Association of American University Presses, but there seems to have been some heat generated over library/press relations and the open access movement. One option is the “Michigan Model” in which a press becomes [...]
Posted: 22 June, 2009 in information industries, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: AAUP, publishing, university presses
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Cheaper by the .pdf, but still . . .
SUNY press has announced an initiative to sell .pdf files of new books for only $20.00 for a title that costs $75.00 in hardcover. And you can browse the first two pages of every chapter absolutely free! What a daring initiative! Sorry, but I’m undewhelmed. I totally support the mission of university presses, but it’s [...]
Posted: 8 April, 2008 in Books, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: publishing, university presses
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