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Key findings: One in four university libraries in Australia is publishing original scholarly works in some form (mostly journals) Most are available online and are open access The publications are …
Sales of scholarly books are dropping, even as their prices are rising. Will academia give up its resistance to an open-access digital model?
Our anonymous academic claims that dubious publishing practices are being used to trick libraries and researchers. But the experts disagree
The last few weeks hav
Vonnegut isn’t. Neither is David Foster Wallace. Nor is Michael Cunningham, the Millers (Henry and Arthur), Twain, Poe, McCarthy (Cormac, not Mary), Bolaño, Murakami, Beckett, Ginsberg, Marx, Choms…
The University of Akron states that it is transferring UA Press operations to its libraries division, after informing employees that their positions are being eliminated.
Open access for monographs and book chapters is a relatively new area of publishing, and there are many ways of approaching it. With this in mind, a recent publication from the Wellcome Trust aims to provide some guidance for to consider when developing policies and processes for open access books. The Wellcome Trust recognises that... Read full article >
Unipresses are publishing non-babyfood nonfiction, which trade houses aren't.
A good reality-check on what it takes for a library to run a UP.
UK context. Section 3 could be assigned as intro to scholarly rep in the humanities.