Feeding the Elephant
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Research and Publishing News
Sara Weissman, “Binghamton and HBCUs Launch Research Alliance,” Inside Higher Ed, June 14, 2023.
- Faculty members and students across the institutions will participate in joint research initiatives on a range of topics, including artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, biomedical engineering, health care and agriculture.
Scott Jaschik, “U of Vermont Launches Open-Access Press,” Inside Higher Ed, June 14, 2023.
- Fully funded by the university and overseen by UVM
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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
Wondering how to build a successful career in scholarly publishing? Professional development is the subject of many sessions at this year’s virtual AUPresses annual meeting. In this post, Feeding the Elephant co-editor Dawn Durante summarizes the discussions and initiatives university presses are engaging in about the best way to make their industry welcoming and supportive for a
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Guest post by Bethany Wasik, acquisitions editor, Cornell University Press.
If you are wondering what’s on the mind of the people who keep university presses humming, this post is for you! Bethany Wasik, Acquisitions Editor at Cornell University Press, sums up the key themes and concerns of the 2023 Association of University Presses (AUPresses) annual meeting.
Over the course of two weeks, I attended all of the sessions of the 2023 virtual edition of the AUPresses annual meeting. The program featured 225 speakers and nearly
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Academic Freedom
Ryan Quinn, From Ending Tenure to Enshrining It, Inside Higher Ed, May 9, 2023
- Texas’s Senate has passed anti-tenure, anti-DEI and anti-transgender sports access bills. But they may face stronger opposition in the state’s House of Representatives.
Eva Surovell, Florida Lawmakers Want Oversight of Invited Speakers on Public-College Campuses, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 11, 2023.
- The Florida legislature passed a bill that would mandate public universities to create an office or charge an
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Guest post by Niels Eichhorn, vice president of research and publications, H-Net.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online came into existence in the mid-1990s as a ListServer and publisher of academic reviews. As of 2023, it hosts 190 Networks and publishes about more than 1,000 book, exhibit, website, podcast, and other reviews every year. What you may not know is that one of its newer services is publishing online, open access journals and monographs that are free to both authors and readers. This initiative
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A post by Emily Joan Elliott, associate director of research and publications, H-Net.
With May upon us, here at Feeding the Elephant, we will begin to post every other Wednesday through Labor Day. As many of our readers also prepare for summer break and consider tackling big projects, we wanted to share some of the highlights from our Working with Your Editor series. This summation is not necessarily comprehensive but is filled with useful tidbits.
Do you want to know something about the process that is not covered here
Scholarly Communications and Academic Publishing
Joseph Esposito, Fallout from the Implosion of Humanities Enrollments, Scholarly Kitchen, April 5, 2023.
- As students leave English and the humanities behind to pursue what they view as more lucrative fields of study, Esposito examines the implications for scholarly writing and publishing.
Todd A. Carpenter, Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court, Scholarly Kitchen, March 29, 2023.
- The four publishers who sued Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library digital lending program won a significant victory in court.
Annette Windhorn &
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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
Catching smoke. Herding cats. Herding wet cats. Harder than publishing a monograph. I’d never do it again. These are the ways I’ve heard authors describe their work on an edited collection. Edited collections almost always pose challenges for volume editors, acquiring editors, and the various people working on the book throughout the publishing process. And this is okay! But it
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Guest post by Laura Ansley and Sarah Weicksel.
Okay, you’re right—scholarly societies are not university presses! But they are important scholarly publishers, so the Elephant wanted to include them in our business model series. Here, the American Historical Association’s managing editor Laura Ansley and director of research and publications Sarah Weicksel give us an overview of how society publishing works
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the largest professional organization of historians in the world
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Guest post by Sarah Handley-Cousins, executive editor of Nursing Clio.
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 provide a platform for historians, health care workers, community activists, students, and the public at large to engage in socio-political and cultural critiques of this ongoing and historical dialogue regarding the gendered body, the history of medicine, popular culture, current