Feeding the Elephant
Welcome to Feeding the Elephant, a place for conversations about scholarly communications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. This is a place for anyone from the worlds of publishing, libraries, academic organizations, and academia, early career or established, affiliated or independent, who is deeply interested in the questions shaping scholarly communications today.
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Post by Dawn Durante, assistant editorial director of the University of North Carolina Press and member of the Feeding the Elephant Editorial Team.
If you are working on publishing your book—whether it is a revised dissertation, an edited collection, or your third monograph—you may have heard that you’ll be asked to provide a subvention. Across university presses (UPs), there are different practices around subventions, and the expectation for authors to provide a subvention varies greatly. Some presses ask every author to
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Guest post by Natalia Grygierczyk, director of Radboud University Press, The Netherlands
Radboud University Press is a diamond open-access publisher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Founded in October 2021, we publish high-quality academic peer-reviewed books, textbooks, series, and journals across a wide range of our university’s disciplines. Authors pay no publishing fees, and users pay no access fees. Authors retain their copyright, and all publications have a CC-BY Creative Commons license, allowing
A Five Year First Friday Feature from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Sarah Handley-Cousins, executive editor of Nursing Clio.
Feeding the Elephant is five years old! To celebrate, we are featuring some of the most popular, noteworthy, or timely pieces we’ve published over the years on the first Friday of each month throughout 2024. We hope you enjoy our Five Year First Friday Feature.
Sarah Handley-Cousins is the executive editor of Nursing Clio, a blog that is a great model of scholars sharing their work with a broad readership. Its mission is “to
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What We’re Reading
Steven Mintz, Can an Academic Discipline Exhaust Itself? Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2024.
Steven Mintz recaps the struggles facing the field of U.S history, stating that younger scholars are less likely to write and even less likely to write groundbreaking work. Unearthing unknown stories isn’t enough, Mintz argues, if scholars aren’t reframing how we understand the past. He included several avenues that scholars might pursue. Mintz’s critics were unimpressed with his analysis, pointing to
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Guest post by Neal Swain, subsidiary rights & licensing manager, University of California Press.
This contribution to the Contracts series focuses on Creative Commons (CC) licenses and their uses, and how they can be understood as a supplement to your contract and current copyright law.
Why Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is intended as an alternative copyright structure that is not tailored around any one nation’s copyright laws, but is instead meant to complement existing copyright norms internationally. While the
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Neal Swain, subsidiary rights & licensing manager, University of California Press.
You already know that, by signing an agreement with a publisher, you’ve granted them specific rights they can exercise for the term of their agreement with you. But in addition to specifying where and how and in what language your book will be published (the primary rights your publisher has acquired), your contract has a section on subsidiary rights. What are subsidiary rights? How are they used?
The term subsidiary rights