[BOAI] New Publishing Models: Developing a common platform for university press e-book distribution

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from SPARC.  --Peter Suber.]


New Publishing Models: Developing a common platform for university press
e-book distribution

A SPARC Web cast

Friday, November 20th, 2009
10:00am Pacific | 1:00PM Eastern

There is no fee to attend. Please register at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml
no later than November 18th

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded four university presses
with a grant to support development of a collaborative university press
electronic book project. The grant, to be administered by NYU Press on
behalf of collaborating presses at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple
University, and Rutgers University, will fund multifaceted research into the
feasibility of developing a consortium of university presses to deliver
e-books to libraries on a shared platform. The initiative will be run by and
for scholarly publishers, with a primary focus on the needs of university
presses and their library customers.

On November 20, Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly
Publishing at New York University, will join us to discuss how university
presses are thinking about the transition to digital book publishing, the
goals of this project and the history behind the grant award, the scope of
the initiative, what collaborators will contribute, and how the survey for
library customer input is coming together.

This Webcast is held in conjunction with the SPARC Campus-based Publishing
initiative, a program and Web center designed by a panel of advisors from
the library and university press communities to support successful
publishing partnerships.
For more information on the SPARC program, visit
http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/index.shtml


For more details on the Mellon grant, visit
http://www.fromthesquare.org/?p=563
.

To register for the November 20th Web cast, visit
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml
.

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SPARC

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational and
publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
jennifer at arl.org
(202) 296-2296 x121
Fax: (202) 872-0884
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