Mellon Foundation Annual Report (Scholarly Communications & University Presses)

["Okerson, Ann" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's annual report this year 
features a lengthy essay on the Foundation's initiatives in the 
area of scholarly communications, by Donald J. Waters and Joseph 
S. Meisel.  The purpose of the essay is to report on the 
Foundation's activities, but the essay is in fact a broader 
survey of how the Foundation sees the total landscape of 
scholarly communications.  Waters has been with Mellon for about 
a decade and has sponsored many innovative projects in that time, 
so his range of expertise is considerable.  Their chosen focus is 
the apparent crisis in university press publishing and the state 
and prospects of university presses in a digital age.

There is a concise report about the essay in the "Today's News" 
section of the Chronicle of Higher Education for Monday 28 July 
2008, while the full essay can be read online at 
http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays/presidents-essays/scholarly-publishing-initiatives/

Worth your time, or as the Chronicle says, if you are interested 
in scholarly communications, this is a page-turner.

Ann Okerson/Yale Library