Ithaka report on university publishing

["James J. O'Donnell" <provost@georgetown.edu>]

Ithaka (www.ithaka.org, with mission to accelerate productive use 
of IT for higher education) has released a new report on 
university publishing in a digital age 
(http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing/) 
-- downloadable PDF available there.  The report is based on 
interviews with numerous stakeholders from within Universities 
(some Georgetown leaders, including myself, were interviewed).

For reportage and comment, see both the Chronicle of Higher 
Education (probably for subscribers only: 
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007072601n.htm -- quoting 
inter alia Paul Courant and Carol Mandel) and Inside Higher 
Education (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/26/ithaka 
-- also quoting Courant, but Sandy Thatcher and others as well).

The main theme is the argument that Universities underattend to 
their publishing mission and opportunity, with risks for their 
presses but for their research and teaching missions as well in a 
time of transformation.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.