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The MIT Press Launches New Open Access Collection of 34 Classic Architecture and Urban Studies Titles

An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works byGeorge L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie,
Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others available as ebooks for the first time.

This Feeding the Elephant post was developed from a panel conversation that took place at the Modern Language Association 2021 virtual meeting in January, organized by Samuel Cohen and Rebecca Colesworthy. Remarks have been condensed for circulation.

Samuel Cohen, University of Missouri

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Authors often ask publishers, “Why is my book so expensive?” The short answer: it really isn’t that expensive. The long answer: your scholarly book might cost more than commercially published nonacademic books because academic presses are spreading the cost of producing a title across a smaller number of print units. Each unit therefore has to be priced higher to enable the press to recoup the cost of production.

Laura Brown and Roger C. Schonfeld offer a synthesis of the state of not-for-profit publishing:

Joihn Sherer assesses the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP), " an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded initiative to publish open digital editions of high-quality books from university presses in the field of history":

 Making OA Monographs More Discoverable, Usable, and Sustainable, Longleaf Services, August 12, 2020

Friends:

This is cross-posted from the H-Net Book Channel's Feeding the Elephant blog.

Margaret DeLacy, H-Scholar editor

Friends:

This is forwarded from the H-Net blog "Feeding the Elephant" on the H-Net Book Channel.

Friends:

The Association of University Presses has a new FAQ page entitled "Ask UP" with answers to questions such as "What should I include in my proposal?" and "When can I expect a contract?" 

You can find the page at

https://ask.up.hcommons.org/

Margaret

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Check out two new resources from the Association of University Presses:

Feeding the Elephant first wrote about the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute’s Toolkits for Equity in Scholarly Publishing project in the fall of 2019.