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Library & Press Collaborative Projects
University presses and academic libraries, as the descriptions below
demonstrate, have a history of innovative collaboration on projects ranging
from professional development of library and press staff to the creation
and preservation of new scholarly resources.
Throughout 2004, AAUP and ARL hope to encourage cooperative efforts such
as these.
ARL and AAUP members: Please send us information on collaborative
projects at your institution.
Projects are organized alphabetically by institution.
Project Descriptions
University of California
The University of California Press (UCP) works on a number of projects
with the California Digital Library (CDL), a university-wide system:
- The CDL has made available about 1500 of UCP’s backlist books in
XML format. Most are available only to the UC community. About 300 out
of print books are available to anyone. 20 titles are freely available
as an experiment. UCP is tracking hits on the electronic editions and
sales of the print edition to see if there is any impact. This is part
one of a larger project to develop a system for publishing books online.
UCP/CDL plans to add several hundred more recent books soon, and are working
on procedures for publishing new books online.
- The University of California International and Area Studies project
involves the Press, the CDL, and the international studies programs on
all campuses. Peer reviewed papers are published electronically under
the Press's imprint. The campuses provide the content; a managing editor
working for the Dean of IAS at Berkeley does the peer review and posts
the papers online; the technical support and web hosting are provided
by the CDL. There is an editorial board, whose members are approved by
the Press's editorial board. The Press will also produce print editions
of some collections of papers, using print on demand technology.
- UCP is working with the CDL and the Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley
to publish an electronic edition of the Mark Twain Papers.
Cornell University Press
The Library and Press of Cornell have a history of fruitful collaboration.
They are working on a major new web portal project, and jointly hosted
a 2003 Editors' Forum, as well as spearheading the DPubS project:
- DPubS
See The Development of an open Source Publishing System
- Race and Religion Web Portal Project
The Cornell University Library is in the process of creating a web portal
on the issues of race and religion designed to support informed discussion
and exploration of the issues of race and religion in America and to
integrate the library in the teaching process at Cornell. As part of
this project, the CU Library is collaborating with the Cornell University
Press on the digitization of some of the CU Press publications on race
and religion. In its pilot phase, the project will support two Cornell
classes, GOVT 210 and NES (Near Eastern Studies) 250, and full-text
access to the first CU Press titles to be digitized will be available
only to the students in those classes. The long-term goal is for the
site to become a resource for the whole Cornell community, and possibly
be offered beyond that, as well. For more information on the project,
contact Kornelia Tancheva, Project Coordinator at kt18@cornell.edu.
- Editors' Forum
The Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press sponsored
an Editors' Forum on November 13, 2003, bringing together Cornell faculty
and staff who serve as editors and managing editors of important scholarly
journals. The forum was held to introduce editors to a new collaboration
of the Library and the Press designed to assist them in journal publishing,
both print and electronic. While the forum focused on editors‚
current requirements and the means necessary to address those needs,
the discussion also included questions on open access publishing, cost-recovery
strategies, and the impact of online distribution on print sales.
The Forum was opened by Cornell Provost Biddy Martin, who spoke enthusiastically
regarding the potential of this new endeavor. James Neal, Vice President
for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University,
in his keynote presentation described his own experiences in innovative
library/press collaborations at Johns Hopkins and at Columbia. The Library's
new Director of Electronic Publishing, Terry Ehling, described Project
Euclid and demonstrated journal publishing capabilities available in
the Library. Addressing present needs and potential solutions, Vice
Provost Francille Firebaugh led a dialogue among three campus editors,
University Librarian Sarah Thomas, and John Ackerman, Director of the
Cornell University Press. In conclusion, the day's deliberations were
summarized and reviewed by Kraig Adler, Vice Provost for Life Sciences.
For more information, contact Terry Ehling at te32@cornell.edu.
University of Hawai'i
The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library and UH Press are jointly sponsoring
a library prize for undergraduate research. It will carry a $1,000 cash
award, be selected by a campus wide faculty committee based on criteria
to be selected, and will become a regular part of the annual awards program
for faculty and students.
The Library and Press are also co-sponsoring a number of events through
the Fall of 2004 in honor of the year of the University Press. Activities
include:
- A 3-day brown bag symposium, Sea-Change in Scholarly Publishing,
September 21-23, to discuss the changing landscape of scholarly communication.
- Saturday Morning Authors, a speaker series featuring UH Press
authors.
- Exhibits throughout the Hamilton Library of the scope of UH Press
publishing.
Details of these events can be found on the Year
of the University Calendar, or contact Sara Rutter at 808-956-2540.
Université Laval
The library director at Laval serves on the board of the University Press.
In recent years the library and press have launched a joint initiative
on e-publishing, in which the Library acts as the expertise and production
center for the electronic version of University scholarly journals, and
for the e-book version of some scholarly monographs selected by the Press
for diffusion on the Web. This is done through the inter-institutional
project and portal ERUDIT (www.erudit.org).
ERUDIT has many partners in Quebec, and relies on two expertise and production
centers: the Laval library/press partnership, and a Montreal branch, which
is an Information Technology department/Press partnership). ERUDIT also
offers links to our institutional repositories hosting e-thesis and dissertations
and other kinds of research publications.
Louisiana State University
Throughout the past decade the LSU Library and Press have provided complementary
resources to important digital and archival scholarly projects.
In 1994 the first digital project done by the LSU Libraries resulted
in the CD-ROM version of B. F. French's Historical Collections of Louisiana.
The LSU Press was the distributor for that CD. In 1999 the LSU Libraries
Special Collections issued a second CD-ROM A Lifetime's Devotion: Photographs
of Andrew Lytle, and the Press again acted as the distributor.
In 1998 the LSU Press issued Louisiana Voices: Remembering World War
II, a book from the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, a part
f the LSU Library. And in 2002 the LSU Press published and issued Under
Stately Oaks: A Pictorial History of LSU, a collaboration of the University
Archives (an arm of the LSU Library), the LSU Press, the University Commission
on the History of LSU, and the Chancellor's office.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online is a collaboration
between the University of Nebraska Press and the University of Nebraska
Libraries Electronic Text Center (the additional sponsors are the NEH
and the Center for Great Plains Studies). It makes available the text
of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited
by Gary E. Moulton. Moulton's edition—the most accurate and inclusive
edition ever published—is one of the major scholarly achievements
of the late twentieth century. Initially offering almost two hundred pages
from volume four, the website is currently being updated with 250 additional
pages each month, and will eventually feature the full text of the Journals--almost
five thousand pages. Also included are a gallery of images, audio files
of acclaimed poet William Kloefkorn reading selected passages, and video
clips of Gary E. Moulton speaking about his work editing the journals.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online is intended
to be both a useful tool for scholars and an engaging website for the
general public.
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu
University of North Carolina
The UNC Press and Library have a an active partnership on many projects:
- The University of North Carolina Press and the UNC library are partners
in a one-volume (print) Encyclopedia of North Carolina History, to be
published in a few years. The press and library are also partners in
an NEH implementation grant to create an Encyclopedia of North Carolina
Online, with a beta version a few years away.
- Representatives of the Press and the library meet once a year at alternating
locales to talk about topics of mutual interest, trading off responsibility
for the agenda.
- Press representatives sit on the library's editorial board for Documenting
the American South, a web-based database of primary source materials.
- The library and press hold monthly brown bag lunch meetings on scholarly
communications. A joint committee plans the agenda; these meetings have
been held for the past 5-6 years.
- The Press has done the marketing and distribution for several library
publications, mostly recently a discography of Country Music Sources.
- The press and library have a joint working group on Southern Cultures.
- The UNC library occasionally showcases the Press's books via its display
cases at the entrance to the main library.
- For the Press's 75th anniversary a few years ago, the library mounted
an exhibit. The Press also built an online version of the exhibit with
links from the Press and the library web sites.
Purdue University
The Purdue University Press is a department of the University and reports
to the Dean of Libraries. This has allowed for a better understanding
of the entire scholarly information enterprise, and has led to several
projects:
- In cooperation with the Purdue Libraries, the Libraries is the host
for CLCWeb (http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/),
a free online journal acquired by the Press. CLCWeb publishes scholarship
in the widest definition of comparative literature and culture in combining
comparative literature with cultural studies as "comparative cultural
studies."
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The Press and LIbraries have combined in an ongoing project that
makes available to the Purdue community titles for which the Press holds
copyright. These titles are available in PDF format and are listed in
and linked through the Libraries OPAC.
Rutgers University
The Press and Libraries of Rutgers University are planning a digital
collaboration as well as programs to celebrate the Year of the University
Press.
- A celebration of Rutgers authors for 2003 with an exhibit of their books,
and a program noting the significance of university presses in the dissemination
of scholarship.
- A series of literary salons over the year held in the library where
authors of Rutgers University Press books talk about their publication.
- A digital project conducted by the Libraries to make available a number
of out of print Rutgers University Press books related to New Jersey and
contribute them to the state-wide Digital New Jersey Highway project funded
by an IMLS grant.
University of Tennessee
To celebrate the year of the university press, the University of Tennessee
Press and University Libraries are presenting a symposium entitled The
Book and The Scholar: Celebrating the Year of the University Press,
September 23-24, 2004. The program will focus on the important role of
the university press in the academic community. The symposium will begin
on Thursday with keynote addresses by Peter Givler, AAUP Executive Director,
and Sandra Yee, Dean of Libraries at Wayne State University. They will
discuss some of the issues facing today's university press, the significance
of a university press for scholars, and propose steps that presses and
universities can take to meet the needs of modern scholarship. Sessions
on Thursday will include professors, librarians, and university press
directors discussing the importance of the university press in academic
careers, book publishing trends, and the future of the press. The second
day of the symposium will be a writer's workshop for graduate students
and faculty about the book publication process. Sessions will cover turning
a dissertation into a book, finding an appropriate publisher, and the
publication process in general.
Thursday evening, the UT Press and the UT Library Friends will hold an
event to launch Tennessee Reads, a book club that will feature UT Press
titles. UT Press author Dan Pierce will discuss his book The Great
Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, the first book club
selection.
The symposium will be held in the Lindsay Young Auditorium at the John
C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, and is free and open
to the public.
http://www.lib.utk.edu/bookandscholar/
Texas Tech University
The Texas Tech University Library and University Press are planning two projects:
- A digital retrospective of Conradiana, a Joseph Conrad Journal published at Texas Tech;
- Digitizing and making available online some backlist TTUP titles.
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt’s Jean & Alexander Heard Library and the Vanderbilt
University Press have jointly published online Charles Baudelaire:
Une Micro-Historie by Raymond Poggenburg. The Micro-Histoire,
a day by day chronology of everything Baudelaire did, was jointly published
in France and the US many years ago. The print version was over 1,000
pages long and very difficult to use. Vanderbilt converted it into a searchable
database, and the author greatly expanded the original edition, which
would have made it far too expensive to offer as a print publication.
The electronic edition is free.
http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/baud-search.pl
University of Washington
The University of Washington libraries have an electronic repository
focusing on resources on Native American culture and ethnography in
the Northwest . The repository includes out-of-print University of Washington
Press titles in this subject area.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html
Wayne State University
The Wayne State University Press and the WSU Library system have teamed
up to form a book club that features WSUP books. The club meets approximately
once a month and the authors talk to the club members. Club members also
receive 20% off all WSUP titles (not only the featured book.) The library'
created a small web site for the club:
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/services/bookclub/
Read more about the bookclub and other WSU activities
in Featured Library/Press Collaborations.
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