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Re: ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY PRESSES

Anthony,

Terry Ehling's operation at Cornell and the publishing interests of
California Digital Library and BEP come to mind.

Many university libraries are working on publishing (print &/or
electronic) related to historical and archival material, either on their
own or in collaboration with a historical society or another entity, even
commercial presses like Alexander Street. But as you say remembering who
has done what isn't always easy!

Mary Summerfield
Director of Business Development & Planning
University of Chicago Press
1427 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637-2954
msummerfield@press.uchicago.edu Phone: 773-702-2383 Fax: 773-702-2704
www.press.uchicago.edu


At 06:01 PM 1/21/2005, you wrote:
Dear colleagues

I am advising a doctoral student who is near to completion of a thesis on
how university presses may develop in the digital environment. She is
concerned primarily with how current university presses may find a new
role but I have drawn her attention to movements towards the creation of a
new type of university press, springing from concerns within the library
environment and publishing with a rather different agenda perhaps in
collaboration with an institutional repository. Having drawn her attention
to this development I cannot find out much about these initiatives. If
anyone does have any references or contacts they could provide either
online or offline I would be very grateful. There is some urgency in this.

Anthony Watkinson