Pathways Forward: The University Press in the 21st Century

"When delegates from nine US university presses joined their UK counterparts in Liverpool, new publishing models and strategic relationships came into focus.

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There are certainly differences—the tendency of the new UK presses, operating on an open access model, to publish the work of their own faculty members, for example, risks looking from an American viewpoint a little like vanity publishing. Most of these differences feel more like questions yet to be answered than real divisions, though. The two nations’ presses may have more to learn from each other in future."