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Title:

The specialized scholarly monograph in crisis, or, How can I get tenure if you won't publish my book? : proceedings of a conference sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies, Association of American University Presses, [and] Association of Research Libraries [in] Washington, D.C. September 11-12, 1997 / edited by Mary M. Case.

Publisher:

Association of Research Libraries,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

178 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Scholarly publishing.--Congresses.
Electronic publishing--Congresses.
University presses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Case, Mary M.
American Council of Learned Societies.
Association of Research Libraries.
Association of American University Presses.

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction -- Welcome and introduction / Kate Torrey -- pt. 2. Overview of scholarly communication issues -- The once and future monograph / Stanley Chodorow -- Why do we write stuff that even our colleagues don't want to read? / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Reaching specialized audiences: the publisher's conundrum / Joanna Hitchcock -- pt. 3. Economics of the specialized monograph -- How much does it cost to publish a monograph and why? / Marlie Wasserman -- Digital alternatives: solving the problem or shifting the costs? / Colin Day -- Just-in-time scholarly monographs / Scott Bennett -- pt. 4. Changing expectations for faculty -- Is there a crisis? If so, does it matter? A view from a liberal arts college / Charles Beitz -- Promotion: a triple whammy at research universities / Peter Nathan -- Advancing humanistic scholarship in the pre-tenure years / John H. D'Arms -- pt. 5. Impact of the current environment -- Thinking systematically about the crisis in schololarly communication / Sanford G. Thatcher -- pt. 6. Experiments in monographic publishing -- Columbia International affairs online / Kate Wittenberg -- Scholarly monographs online: potentialities and realities suggested by the Columbia University online books evaluation project / Carol Mandel and Mary Summerfield -- A place for the small press in university publishing / Robert Langenfeld -- Learning by doing: publishing Latin American Studies books / Norris Pope -- pt. 7. New frameworks for scholarly research and communication -- University publishing in the electronic age: a collaboration among university presses, libraries, and computing centers / Shelia Creth -- The scholarly monographs's descendants / Clifford Lynch -- The AHA/ARL proposal on the endangered monograph / Sandria B. Freitag -- pt. 8. Future directions -- The future of the genre / Teresa Sullivan.

ISBN:

9780918006448
0918006449

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41282951

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)