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:
The series has featured interviews with Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT 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..."