The university press in North America: A brief history

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Jagodzinski, Cecile M ^a  

^a Indiana University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Association of american university presses; Digital publishing; Scholarly communication; University presses

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349756973     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.40.1.1     Document Type: Article

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2. Chester Kerr, A Report on American University Presses (Washington, DC: Association of American University Presses 1949), 32
3. Arthur M. Cohen, The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1998), 105
4. 'Table 197, Total Graduate Fall Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions, by Attendance Status, Sex of Students, and Control of Institution: 1969 through 2005,' in Digest of Education Statistics, 2006 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office 2007), available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_197.asp
5. 'Table 178, Historical Summary of Faculty, Students, Degrees, and Finances in Degree-granting Institutions,' ibid., available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_178.asp
6. Quoted in Cohen, The Shaping of American Higher Education, 107
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9. See John Tebbel, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, vol. 2 (New York: R.R. Bowker 1975), 535;
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12. Kerr, Report on American University Presses, 22
13. Robert Frederick Lane, The Place of American University Presses in Publishing (PhD dissertation, University of Chicago 1939), 37
14. Association of American University Presses [AAUP], 'Some University Press Facts,' http://aaup net.org/aboutup/upfacts.html
15. 'Rice U. Will Start the First All-Digital University Press,' Chronicle of Higher Education (28 July 2006): A23.
16. The press had four titles available as of March 2008; see Rice University Press, 'Publications,' http://ricepress.rice.edu/ publications.cfm.
17. Kerr, Report on American University Presses, 63
18. Ibid., 86
19. Ibid., 91
20. John Tebbel, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, vol. 3 (New York: R.R. Bowker 1978), 598-9
21. AAUP, 'Welcome to the Association of American University Presses!,' http://www.aaupnet.org/about/introduction.html
22. AAUP, Directory, 2007 (New York: AAUP 2006), 202-4
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24. Shannon Davies, 'Internships as a Publishing Training Tool,' Journal of Scholarly Publishing 28, 4 (July 1997): 227-33
25. AAUP, 2004-2005 Annual Report (New York: AAUP 2005), 11
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32. Robert Darnton, 'New Life in E-Books,' Times Higher Education Supplement (5 March 1999): 20
33. Solutions to this 'monograph crisis' have included subsidizing the costs of monograph publication (especially for first books), revamping the entire promotion and tenure system by finding acceptable substitutes for the 'gold standard' of the monograph, or simply cutting back on the publication of a product with a declining market share. The literature on this topic has become voluminous, but see, for example, Modern Language Association, Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (New York: MLA 2007), available at http://www.mla.org/pdf/task_force_tenure_promo.pdf
34. Lindsay Waters, 'Rescue Tenure from the Tyranny of the Monograph,' Chronicle of Higher Education (20 April 2001): B7;
35. Albert N. Greco, Robert F. Jones, Robert M. Wharton, and Hooman Estelami, 'The Changing College and University Library Market for University Press Books and Journals: 1997-2004,' Journal of Scholarly Publishing 39, 3 (April 2007): 265-96.
36. John Tebbel, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, vol. 4 (New York: R.R. Bowker 1981), 634
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38. National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Communication: The Report of the National Enquiry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1979)
39. Peter Monaghan, 'Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors,' Chronicle of Higher Education (13 August 2004): A1
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41. Paulette Walker Campbell, 'New NEH Chairman Hopes to Revive Some Grant Programs That Have Been Cut,' Chronicle of Higher Education (12 December 1997): A34
42. 'University Presses Collaborate in Innovative New Publishing Projects' (18 January 2007), http://www.aaupnet.org/news/press/mellon12008.html
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48. Judy Quinn, 'A Winning Hand at Mystery,' Publishers Weekly (22 February 1999): 28
49. Charlotte Abbott, 'Success of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith,' Publishers Weekly (22 July 2002): 75-6
50. For an overview of current digital projects being supported by university presses, see AAUP, 'Member Digital Initiatives,' http://www.aaupnet.org/resources/electronic.html
51. Susan E. Lewis, 'Project Muse and "The Web": An American University Press Goes On-Line,' Logos 6, 2 (1995): 73-8
52. Brown et al., University Publishing in a Digital Age, 59
53. University of Virginia Press, 'About Rotunda,' http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/index.php?page_id=About
54. ACLS Humanities E-Book, 'Introduction: The New E-Book: A Digital Portal,' http://www.humanitiesebook.org/intro2.html
55. 'Google Print Case Study: Penn State Press Gets More Traffic, Bigger Margins and New Sales with Google Print,' https://books.google.com/ partner/pennstate
56. For two representative statements of the university presses' views, see Peter Givler's May 20 2005 letter to Google, available at http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/0865_001.pdf;
57. and Sanford G. Thatcher, 'Fair Use in Theory and Practice: Reflections on Its History and the Google Case,' Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37, 3 (April 2006): 215-29
58. 'Pitt's Libraries and University Press Collaborate on Open Access to Press Titles' (29 November 2007), http://www.library.pitt.edu/uls/news/ pittpress.html
59. AAUP, 'AAUP Statement on Open Access' (February 2007), http://aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/oa/statement.pdf
60. Bowker, 'U.S. Book Production Plummets 18K in 2005; Smaller Publishers Shows the Largest Drop in New Titles' (news release, 9 May 2006), available at http://www.bowker.com/press/bowker/2006_0509_bowker.htm.
61. For a statistical summary of university press book production between 1993 and 2005, see 'U.S. University Presses Book Production,' http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/university.html.
62. See, e.g., in addition to the Ithaka report cited above, these personal and organizational suggestions about the role university presses should play in the scholarly communications circuit: American Council of Learned Societies [ACLS], Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Final Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (New York: ACLS 2006), available at http://www.acls.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/ Programs/Our_Cultural_Commonwealth.pdf
63. Joseph J. Esposito, 'The Wisdom of Oz: The Role of the Scholarly Press in Scholarly Communications,' Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, 1 (Winter 2007), available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ spo.3336451.0010.103
64. John B. Thompson, 'Survival Strategies for Academic Publishing,' Publishing Research Quarterly 21, 4 (December 2005): 3-10;
65. and Lynne Withey, 'What Is the Role of the University Press in the Rapidly Changing Climate of Scholarly Publishing?' in C. Judson King, Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and Irene Perciali, Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models (Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California 2006): 108-10, available at http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/scholarlycomm_report.pdf.
66. AAUP, 'About University Presses,' http://www.aaupnet.org/news/about.html