Papers
The Price of University Press Books,
1989-2000
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National Academies Press: Evaluation
Study of E-Publishing Initiatives
CDDC: Digital Production Strategies for Scholarly Publishers
Study Description
In 1999, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded AAUP a $500,000 grant
to support a four-year study of the system of scholarly communication.
In 2000, AAUP began the process of gathering, analyzing, and reporting
data about the current state of our publishing field and the changing
market for scholarly books and journals.
A key element in this study is to gather data on the rate of publication
in various disciplines and to track any long-term changes. Other areas
the project will examine include quantitative studies of the supply of
scholarly manuscripts, the demand for scholarly publications by libraries
and individuals, and the contribution of university presses to the dissemination
of scholarship and to the fulfillment of the university's social purpose.
A group based at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business is
conducting the research.
The results of the Mellon project will be publicized regularly,and progress
reports given at the AAUP annual meetings. Press releases and white papers
will be made available to the publishing and academic communities. Please
check this site for information as it becomes available.
ALSO
National Academies Press:
Evaluation Study of E-Publishing Initiatives
The National Academies Press, publisher for the National Academies, has
long been a leader in the electronic publishing industry. NAP’s dual
mission is to disseminate the works of the National Academies to the
greatest possible extent while fully supporting the cost of its own operation
without subsidy from its parent institution. To better fulfill NAP’s
dissemination mission, the leadership of the National Academies and of
NAP are examining ways to deliver print-quality e-content to anyone wishing
to print chapters or entire books.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a NAP study with two goals: (1)
to evaluate the effects of NAP’s presence online in meeting its goals
of maximum dissemination while remaining selfsustaining, thereby providing
valuable lessons to other nonprofit scholarly publishers; and (2) to contribute
research findings to a larger theoretical base of knowledge on electronic
publishing. AAUP is pleased to help share the findings of the NAP Mellon
study with the wider community of scholarly publishers.
Go to NAP Final Report and Appendices
Chicago Digital Distribution Center:
Digital Distribution Strategies
for Scholarly Publishers
This white paper was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It considers current and emerging book production and distribution alternatives and the related decision processes of scholarly publishers. Addressing issues of operations, finances, strategy, and risk inherent in the scholarly publishing process and marketplace, it discusses how digital printing can fit into a publisher's strategy throughout the life cycles of its scholarly books. It presents case studies for several university presses and titles, and proposes production strategies that can both serve the scholarly mission and optimize income flow throughout the title life cycle.
The paper is available as a PDF at: http://www.bibliovault.org/docs/digital_prod_strategies.pdf |
