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General

Essential reading:

Abel, Richard E., and Lyman W. Newlin, eds. Scholarly Publishing: Books Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
*Includes "University Press Publishing in the United States" by Peter Givler, available on our web site.

Bartlett, Rebecca Ann. "University Presses and Academic Libraries: Both 'Crisis' and Pie in the Sky." Choice (June 2004).

Hawes, Gene R. To Advance Knowledge: A Handbook on American University Press Publishing (New York: American University Press Services, 1967).

Jeanneret, Marsh. God and Mammon: Universities as Publishers (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990).

Kerr, Chester. A Report on American University Presses (Washington, DC: AAUP, 1949).

Sisler, William P., ed. One Hundred Years of Scholarly Publishing, 1878-1978 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).

Professional and Scholarly Publishing Issues Glossary. A project of the Public Issues Task Force of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. http://www.pspcentral.org

For further reading:

Baker, John F. “University Presses to the Rescue?” Publishers Weekly, 1 (June 1998): 38-40.

Bartlett, Rebecca Ann. "Back(list) to the Future: The New Reality for University Presses, 2000." Choice 37:9 (May 2000).

Bennet, Douglas et al. "To Publish and Perish." Policy Perspectives 7:4 (March 1998).

Bennett, Scott. "Repositioning University Presses in Scholarly Communication." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 25 (July 1994): 243-248.

Bryant, Eric. "Reinventing the University Press." Library Journal 1 (September 1994): 147-149.

Budd, John M. "Academic Libraries and University Presses." Publishing Research Quarterly 7:2 (Summer 1991): 27-37.

Canagarajah, Suresh A. "'Nondiscursive' Requirements in Academic Publishing, Material Resources of Periphery Scholars, and the Politics of Knowledge Production." Written Communication 13 (October 1996): 435-72.

Cummings, Anthony M., et al., eds. University Libraries and Scholarly Communication: A Study Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 1992).

Day, Colin. “The University Press: An Organic Part of the Institution.” Scholarly Publishing (October 1991): 27-44.

Dessauer, John P. “Scholarly Books.” In Book Publishing: What It Is, What It Does. 2nd ed. (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1981).

Ganim, Russell. "Manuscripts and Markets: The Case and Cause of Authors in Search of Publishers." Journal of the Midwest MLA 32:2-3 (1999): 88-97.

Gilman, Daniel Coit. University Problems in the United States (New York: The Century Co., 1898).

Givler, Peter. "Scholarly Books, the Coin of the Realm of Knowledge." Chronicle of Higher Education (November 12, 1999): A76. Now available on aaupnet.org

Goellner, J. G. “The Future of University Presses.” Library Journal 15 (September 1978): 1695-1699.

Greco, Albert N., et al. The Price of University Press Books, 1989-2000. www.aaupnet.org (March 2003)

Horowitz, Irving Louis. Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1991).

Hunter, Karen. "A Publisher's Perspective." Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 14, no. 1 (1990): 5-13.

Kachergis, Joyce, ed.  One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Procedures of Five University Presses (Los Altos, CA: Kaufman, 1978; repr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Kerr, Chester. “One More Time: American University Presses Revisited.” Scholarly Publishing (July 1987): 211-235.

________. "Amazing Grace." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94 (July 1990): 92-100.

Kirkpatrick, David D. "As Publishers Perish, Libraries Feel Pain." New York Times (November 3, 2000): D2.

Lombardi, John V. “Elegant Artifact or Auxiliary Enterprise: Universities’ Presses.” Scholarly Publishing (January 1992): 67-76.

Luey, Beth. “Finding a Publisher for the Scholarly Book.” In Handbook for the Academic Author, 3rd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Meadow, Charles T. “On the Future of the Book, or Does it Have a Future?” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 26 (July 1995): 187-196.

Meyer, Sheldon and L.E. Phillabaum. "What Is a University Press?" Scholarly Publishing, 11, 218 (April 1980). Revised for AAUP in 1994.

Moore, Terence. "Academic Publishing and Literary Criticism." MLN 99 (December 1984): 1162-66.

Parsons, Paul. Getting Published: The Acquisition Process at University Presses (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989).

Pelikan, Jaroslav. “The Diffusion of Knowledge Through Publishing.” In The Idea of the University: A Reexamination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).

___________. The University’s Secret Weapon. (New Haven, CT: Friends of Yale University Press, 1992).

Philipson, Morris.  “What is a University Press Worth?” The University of Chicago Magazine LXV:2 (September/October 1972): 13-18.

Pochoda, Phil. "Universities Press On." The Nation (December 29, 1997): 11-16.

Powell, Walter W. Getting Into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Putnam, John B. “Highbrow Tobacco: The Genesis of the AAUP.” Scholarly Publishing (July 1974): 301-308.

Rosenthal, Arthur J. “University Press Publishing.” In The Business of Book Publishing: Papers by Practitioners, edited by Elizabeth A. Geiser et al. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985).

Schiffrin, Andre. The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read (New York: Verso, 2000).

Scholarly Communication: The Report of the National Inquiry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).

Seltzer, Leon E. “University Presses.” In What Happens in Book Publishing, edited by Chandler B. Grannis. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967).

Thatcher, Sanford G. "The Crisis in Scholarly Communication." The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 3, 1995).

Torrey, Kate, et al. "The Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis: or, How Can I Get Tenure if You Won't Publish My Book?" (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, September 1997).

Waters, Lindsay. "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Books of the Members of the MLA from being a Burden to their Authors, Publishers, or Audiences." PMLA 115:3 (2000): 315-317.

Wissoker, Ken. "Scholarly Monographs are Flourishing, Not Dying." Chronicle of Higher Education (September 12, 1997): B4-B5.

Ziesk, Edra. "Alternative Medicine: How (and Why) I Got Published by a University Press." Poets and Writers 27:6 (November/December 1999): 53-55.

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Considerations of the Future of Scholarly Publishing

Crow, Raym. Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues (SPARC Campus-Based Publishing Resource Center, 2009).

Davidson, Cathy N. "Crises and Opportunities: The Future(s) of Scholarly Publishing," available at the Franklin Humanities Institute's The Role and Future of Scholarly Publishing in American Intellectual Life: Events Series & Related Resources web page.

Pascal, Naomi. "Between Academe and the Marketplace: University Presses Face the Twenty-First Century." In Graham and Abel, eds. The Book in the United States Today (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997).

Wissoker, Ken. An Emerging Crisis: University Publishing and the Humanities (Duke News Service, September 18, 2002).

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Histories of AAUP Member Presses

Beacon Press
Wilson, Susan. A Brief History of Beacon Press. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004

University of California Press
Frugé, August. A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing. University of California Press, 1993.

Cambridge University Press
Black, M. H. Cambridge University Press, 1584-1984. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

McKitterick, David. Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge 1584-1984: Catalogue of the Exhibition in the University Library, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

McKitterick, David. A History of Cambridge University Press. Volume One. Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

McKitterick, David. A History of Cambridge University Press. Volume Two. Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Harvard University Press
Hall, Max. Harvard University Press: A History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Michigan State University Press
Hungiville, Maurice. From a Single Window: Michigan State University and Its Press, 1947-1997. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

Oxford University Press
Barker, Nicolas. The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press, 1978

Sutcliffe, Peter. The Oxford University Press: An Informal History. Oxford University Press, 1978

Princeton University Press
A Century in Books: Princeton University Press: 1905-2005. Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Electronic publishing

Alexander, Adrian W. and Julie S. Alexander. “Intellectual Property Rights and the ‘Sacred Engine’: Scholarly Publishing in the Electronic Age.” Advances in Library Resource Sharing 1 (1990): 176-192.

Basch, Reva. “Books Online: Visions, Plans, and Perspectives for Electronic Text.” Online 15 (July 1991): 13-23.

DeLoughry, Thomas J. "University Presses Try to Ride the Wave of Electronic Publishing." The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 24, 1993): A17-A19.

Ekman, Richard H. “Technology and the University Press: A New Reality for Scholarly Communications.” Change (September/October 1996): 34-39.

Freeman, Lisa. "Big Challenges Face University Presses in the Electronic Age." The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 28, 1993): A44.

Givler, Peter. "Books in Bytes? Not Yet" Academe 85: 5 (1999).

Gotze, Dietrich. "Electronic Journals--Market and Technology." Publishing Research Quarterly 11 (Spring 1995): 3-20.

Greenstein, Daniel. "Publishing Scholarly Information in a Digital Millennium." Computers and the Humanities 32:4 (1998): 253-256.

Horowitz, Irving Louis. "New Technology and the Changing System of Author-Publishing Relations." New Literary History 20 (Winter 1989): 505-509.

Hunter, Karen. "Issues and Experiments in Electronic Publishing and Dissemination." Information Technology and Libraries 13 (June 1994): 127-132.

Jacobson, Robert L. "Publishers and the Net." The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 1995): A17-A18.

Kasdorf, William E., ed. The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).

Nitterhouse, Denise. "Digital Productions Strategies for Scholarly Publishers." White paper, University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Okerson, Ann, ed. Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper: Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 1995).

Peek, Roben B. and Gregory B. Newby, eds. Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).

Thurston, Thomas. "New Questions for New Media: Scholarly Writing and Online Publishing." American Quarterly 51:2 (June 1999): 250-253.

Waters, D and J. Garrett.  Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. (Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries, 1996).

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Journals publishing

Scholarly Journals in the New Digital World
Boismenu, Gérard and Guylaine Beaudry, translated by Maureen Ranso
ISBN 1-55238-127-7
University of Calgary Press, 2004

Fisher, Janet H. "2020: A Publisher's View into the Crystal Ball." The Serials Librarian 24, nos. 3/4 (1994): 69-72.

Gotze, Dietrich. "Electronic Journals--Market and Technology." Publishing Research Quarterly 11 (Spring 1995): 3-20.

McGinty, Stephen. Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Journal Editors in the Sciences and Social Sciences (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1999).

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Copyrights and Contracts

Essential Reading:

Copyright Resources, a compilation of web resources and information on copyright.

Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities:  A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations
A joint project of AAUP, the Association of American Universities, the Association of American Publishers, and the Association of Research Libraries, the Guide outlines the fundamental issues to be considered by colleges and universities in developing campus policies governing the creation, distribution, use, and management of copyrighted works.

Copyright Q & A
Copyright Questions & Answers for the Campus Community
An online guide to copyright for the higher education community, developed and sponored by the National Association of College Stores, the Association of American Publishers, the Software & Information Industry Alliance, and endorsed by AAUP and the Copyright Clearance Center.

Fishman, Steven. The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Words (Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1992).

Kirsch, Jonathan.  Kirsch's Handbook of Publishing Law (San Francisco: Acrobat Press, 1995).

National Research Council. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (Washington: National Academy Press, 2000).

Strong, William S.  The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide, 4th ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).

For Further Reading:

Alexander, Adrian W. and Julie S. Alexander. “Intellectual Property Rights and the ‘Sacred Engine’: Scholarly Publishing in the Electronic Age.” Advances in Library Resource Sharing 1 (1990): 176-192.

Blue, Martha. By the Book: Legal ABCs for the Printed Word (Flagstaff AZ: Northland Publishing Co., 1990).

Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Laws and the Construction of the Information Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Copyright: It's for the Public Good
Peter Givler
from The Chronicle Review, May 9, 2003

Givler, Peter.  "Copyright." In Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Interconnected Omniverse: Proceedings from the Third Symposium of the ARL (Office of Management Services: 1994).

Harvey, William B. “The Publishing Contract.” Scholarly Publishing (July 1977): 299-314.

Kahin, Brian and Hal R. Varian, eds. Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).

Kozak, Ellen M. Every Writer's Guide to Copyright and Publishing Law (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).

Levine, Mark. Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide for Authors, Agents, and Lawyers (Wickford, RI: Moyer-Bell, 1988).

Lichtenberg, James. “Of Steeds and Stalking Horses: Academics Meet Publishers in the Field of Copyright.” EDUCOM Review 30 (May/June 1995): 40-43.

O'Donnell, James. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Stim, Richard.  Getting Permission: How to License and Clear Copyrighted Material Online and Off (Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 2000).

Wincor, Richard. Rights Contracts in the Communications Media (New York: Law and Business, 1982).

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The English Language: Usage, Grammar, Style

Essential Reading:

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

The Chicago Manual of Style Frequently Asked Questions—an online resource.

Gibaldi, Joseph. The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd ed. (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998).

For Further Reading:

The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (New York: Times Books, 1976).

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 3rd ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1984).

Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors and Editors (New York: Council of Biology Editors, 1994).

U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1984).

Brooks, Brian S. Working With Words: A Concise Handbook for Media Writers, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press,1993).

Follett, Wilson, ed. Modern American Usage: A Guide (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998).

Iverson, Cheryl, et al., eds. American Medical Association Manual of Style, 8th ed. (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1989).

Johnson, Edward D. The Handbook of Good English: Revised and Updated (New York: Facts on File, 1991).

McArthur, Tom, ed. The Oxford Companion to the English Language (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Miller, Casey and Kate Swift. The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing: For Writers, Editors, and Speakers, 2nd ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1988).

Schwartz, Marilyn and the Task Force on Bias-Free Language of the Association of American University Presses. Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

Skillin, Marjorie. Words into Type (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1974).

Swanson, Ellen. Mathematics into Type (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society: 1987).

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Writing and Editing

Barzun, Jacques. On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Horatory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

Bates, Jefferson. Writing With Precision: How to Write So That You Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood, 6th ed. (London: Acropolis, 1993).

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Butcher, Judith. Copy-Editing (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Dericourt, Robin. An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).

Gross, Gerald, ed. Editors on Editing, 3rd ed. (New York: Grove Press, 1993).

Germano, William. Getting it Published (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

Moxley, Joseph M., and Todd Taylor. Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997).

Smith, Peggy. Mark My Words: Instruction and Practice in Proofreading, 2nd ed. (Alexandria, VA: EEI Press, 1993).

Strunk, W., Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 3rd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1979).

Tarutz, Judith A. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers (New York: Addison Wesley, 1992).

Thomas, Francis-Noel, and Mark Turner. Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Williams, Joseph M. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).

Zinsser, William. On Writing Well, 5th ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1994).

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Design, Typography, and Production

A Guide to Indexing Software, 4th ed. (Reston, VA: American Society of Indexers, 1992).

Bruno, Michael H. Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook, 15th ed. (Purchase, NY: International Paper Company, 1992).

Hendel, Richard. On Book Design (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991).

Mulvany, Nancy. Indexing Books (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Spiekermann, Erik, and E. M. Ginger. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Really Works (New York: Prentice Hall, 1993).

Tschichold, Jan. The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1991).

Wellisch, Hans H. Indexing from A to Z (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1991).

White, Alex. Type in Use: Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing (New York: McGraw-Hill/Design Press, 1992).

Wilson, Adrian.  The Design of Books (San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993).

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