Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.
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Dec 14, 2021
Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.
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June 22, 2021
On the heels of the Nikole Hannah-Jones case, UNC governing board doesn’t reappoint an outspoken faculty member to the university press board.
February 22, 2021
Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.
February 10, 2020
Three leaders lose jobs at respected press. Reasons are unclear.
February 5, 2020
Institutions can be unfamiliar with what their university presses do or with their own integral role in supporting scholarly publishing, argue Kathryn Conrad and Jennifer Crewe, which can lead to hasty or inaccurate judgments.
October 22, 2019
Could subscriptions create a pathway to sustainable open-access monograph publishing? MIT Press plans to find out.
May 3, 2019
A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?
February 15, 2019
Shift at Melbourne University Publishing raises question of whether nonacademic books can be used to subsidize academic publishing.
June 11, 2018
Scholarly publishing organization is considering the issue, amid calls to do more about those who mistreat students and colleagues but appear to go unpunished. Some contracts have been canceled.
June 1, 2018
As downloads of free scholarly books soar, what's getting read?