Rice U. to Close Its Digital Press Next Month

"Rice University will close its press in September, the university confirmed today. The move ends a high-profile experiment in digital university-press publishing. Closed once before, in 1996, the press was reborn in 2006 as an all-digital operation. But it had proven too expensive to sustain even in its new form....The Rice press relied on Connexions, the university's online, open-source environment for creating and publishing scholarly content, as its e-publishing platform....Rice books are likely to remain available through Connexions...."