Digital Killed the Analog Star: An Interview with Fred Moody of Anvil Academic Press - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-03

Summary:

"This is the fifth article in a series,Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world.

The series has featured interviews with Stanford Highwire PressNYU PressMIT Press and the Penn State University Press.... Today I speak with Fred Moody (@moodyfred) of Anvil Academic, a new open-access digital press that aims to reshape the broken system of academic publication. Led by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Anvil aims to bring rigorous and innovative forms of peer review to digital publications, and develop new standards for digital publication in promotion and tenure. I introduced Anvil and its mission last week... Today, Fred tells me more about Anvil’s conception and the ways this new publisher aims to address current problems within academic publishing. Before his work with Anvil, Fred served as Editor-in-Chief of Rice University Press, a digital academic publishing experiment run by Rice from 2007-10, an experience which has helped shape Anvil’s current mission..."

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/digital-killed-the-analog-star-an-interview-with-fred-moody-of-anvil-academic/42936

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Date tagged:

10/03/2012, 15:30

Date published:

10/03/2012, 11:30