What Might Be in Store for Universities’ Presses

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Publication of low-volume academic work requires subsidy, but I think that a good deal of cost can also be wrung out of the system, thereby making it more plausible that the home institutions, libraries, and other parts of academe will pay the requisite subsidy. One mechanism for cost reduction is the “platform-sharing” that I discussed above. Additionally, established presses, or new imprints, plausibly under the aegis of university libraries, could develop series of carefully reviewed, but lightly edited and simply produced, monographs. As suggested in the previous paragraph, these could be distributed on the web, plausibly for free, with modest charges for POD versions. The production and distribution of such work is as much within the mission of the academic library as that of the scholarly publisher, arguing for closer collaboration between these two sets of institutions. The library has the great advantage that providing access to scholarly work at no charge is squarely within its existing business model...."

Link:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;idno=3336451.0013.206;rgn=main;view=text

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Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:29

Date published:

11/21/2010, 15:21