U. Minnesota Press, CUNY Grad Center Develop Hybrid Publishing Platform

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-05-20

Summary:

The University of Minnesota Press and the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in April were awarded a $732,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Manifold Scholarship, a new platform that will enable the publication of iterative, networked, electronic versions of scholarly monographs alongside the print edition of the book. These ebook editions will allow authors to link to or incorporate content such as audio, video, and interactive files, as well as primary research documents and datasets. Reader feedback—separate from peer review—will be incorporated via social media channels, and university presses will be able to release updated versions of the ebook titles while still offering access to the original text. Similarly, all of these features could be used to publish an ebook 'that makes visible its own process of creation, culminating in a formal, peer-reviewed Release Version,' according to a PowerPoint document published on Project Muse Commons by Susan Doerr, operations manager of the University of Minnesota Press.

Link:

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/05/publishing/u-minnesota-press-cuny-grad-center-develop-hybrid-publishing-platform/#_

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Date tagged:

05/20/2015, 08:57

Date published:

05/20/2015, 04:56