Please note that throughout this paper we use the term “university†as shorthand for both universities and colleges.
In the past, terms such as scholarly communications and scholarly publishing were often used to depict research outputs that met certain criteria, such as certification, selection, and preservation. We argue here that the lines between formal and informal [...]
Press Directors
Demographics
1. How big is your press (staff, revenues, number of books published, number of journals published, other metrics)?
2. Who are your press’s peers?
3. To whom do you look for examples of future directions for your press?
4. How long have you been director?
5. What are the major issues your press is facing?
Relationship to host
1. Is your press a unit of the [...]
Recommendation 1: Tell a compelling story
Within higher education, much of the recent agenda for change in scholarly communication has been centered in libraries. From open access advocacy, to institutional repositories, to tools for the creation of electronic content, libraries are leading the university’s response to the high cost of published scholarship and the demand for [...]
Libraries and presses have different and often complementary strengths and weaknesses that could be harnessed to deliver a compelling new publishing enterprise. Libraries, at the nexus of faculty research needs, understand scholars as users of information (robust subject collections – as much as possible – to support research agendas, 24/7 accessibility, preservation, etc.). Presses understand [...]
University Administrators
Timothy A. Barbari
Associate Provost for Research
Georgetown University
John T. Casteen III
President
University of Virginia
Ronald Daniels
Provost
University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Eisgruber
Provost
Princeton University
Richard M. Englert
Provost (interim)
Temple University
John Etchemendy
Provost
Stanford University
Bernadette Gray-Little
Provost
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Andrew D. Hamilton
Provost
Yale University
Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume
Provost
University of California
Steven Knapp
Provost
Johns Hopkins University
Earl Lewis
Provost
Emory University
Harold L. Martin
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of North Carolina
James J. O'Donnell
Provost
Georgetown University
Michael [...]