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University presses are at the cutting edge of electronic publishing,
often working in collaboration with each other, with their university
libraries, and with scholarly societies. Below are links to some of the
e-Publishing initiatives currently under way at university presses. As
new initiatives are launched, we'll add information and links to this
page. If you know of a university press-sponsored e-initiative that is
not included here, please suggest it to bmclaughlin@aaupnet.org.
Member Digital Initiatives
Caliber
Caliber is the online journals hosting service of University of California Press. Designed to meet the research needs of scholars, researchers, and students, Caliber holds the content for most journals published by UC Press and enables readers to search for relevant articles, read abstracts for free, print the full-text of subscribed to articles, download citations, and make connections to other relevant research through reference linking.
[ http://caliber.ucpress.net/ ]
University of California Press eScholarship Editions
Nearly 2000 online editions are available through a partnership between University of California Press and California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Nearly 400 of the titles are open access, available to the general public; the rest are accessible to University of California faculty, staff, and students.
[ http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress/ ]
Cambridge Companions Online
The Companions is an online resource for the humanities. The collection enhances and complements the book series by offering students unrivalled access and functionality. Includes more than 220 titles and over 2,000 essays, fully searchable by author, title, topic, or keyword.
[ http://www.cambridge.org/us/online ]
The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference
The letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle were recently made available in a fully searchable electronic format in September 2007. The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference applies the functionality of XML innovation to one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Produced by Duke University Press, in partnership with HighWire Press of Stanford University, the features of The Carlyle Letters Online include: over 14,000 letters to over 600 recipients; an internal web of hyperlinks connecting all letters in the collection; browsing by recipient, date, and a comprehensive index of topics; the latest advances in digital scholarship with the full textual; and scholarly authority of traditional university press editions.
The Chicago Digital
Distribution Center and BiblioVault
The University of Chicago Press, with a generous grant from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, has launched a short-run digital printing facility
and electronic repository of book files from its Chicago Distribution
Center (CDC) warehouse facility. The CDC provides distribution and business
services for a number of presses, and the Mellon grant will fund the digitization
of 5000 titles from these presses. The electronic repository, or BiblioVault,
will initially be used to serve the SRDP facility, but will eventually
allow public search and browsing of the electronic content.
[ http://cddc.uchicago.edu
]
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
The University of Chicago Press's bible of the publishing and research community is now available on your desktop. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions. The Chicago Manual of Style Online incorporates the popular Chicago Style Q&A, a resource that thousands have found as entertaining as it is informative. The Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of The Chicago Manual of Style. Additional tools and guides have also been provided and additional functionality and features are planned for the future. Individual, group, and institutional annual subscriptions are available.
[ http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ ]
CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule.
[ http://www.ciaonet.org ]
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
Based on the 1998 three-volume Columbia Gazetteer of the World from
Columbia University Press, the Gazetteer Online launched in 2001
and provides comprehensive search capabilities and articles on over 165,000
places in the world and cross-referenced place-names. With information
on geography, politics, economics, and natural resources, the Gazetteer
provides a wealth of data on places in the world, and is updated on an
on-going basis using a Web-based content management system that allows
full-time access to the editorial system by all of the work's contributors.
[ http://www.columbiagazetteer.org
]
The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online
Based on the venerable Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, this
Web-based resource from Columbia University Press contains the complete
Granger's database encompassing many past editions of the print version
as well as on-going new additions of indexed anthologies and the full-text
of over 30,000 poems. Granger's has existed as an electronic product in
CD-ROM form since 1991 and has been on the web for 3 years.
[ http://www.columbiagrangers.org
]
The
Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
Columbia University Press's newest online product, launched in January
2003 and published simultaneously in print, the Guide is a comprehensive
reference to all aspects of the digital processes of creating, managing,
designing, securing, producing, and delivering content, whether in print
or electronically. It covers established and emerging technology as well
as electronic marketing, e-Books, copyright in the electronic age, accessibility
issues, archiving, digital rights management, and many other topics, with
many links to other resources. This product, too, is editorially managed
and updated on an on-going basis with a custom-designed ,Web-based content
management system.
[ http://www.digitalpublishingguide.com
]
DART: Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, Columbia University/EPIC
Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching aims to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project will also investigate digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customized use of these resources. Drawing on the collective skills and existing infrastructures of institutions and organizations, DART seeks to initiate a meaningful and sustainable transformation of undergraduate education and professional practice in the field of anthropology.
[ http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/dart/ ]
/DMJ 100/
The first 100 volumes of /Duke Mathematical Journal/, one of the world’s leading mathematical journals, is now available in a fully searchable electronic format. Spanning 4,830 articles published in the /Duke Mathematical Journal/ between 1935 and 1999, /DMJ 100/'s features include page-level TIFF images at 600 DPI, fully searchable PDF and DjVu article files, OCR files with minimal tagging for further development, and issue level metadata (including links from each article to MathSciNet and Zentralblatt, as well as Mathematics Subject Classifications for each article back to 1978).
[ http://www.dukeupress.edu/dmj100 ]
DPubS: Digital Publishing System
Cornell University Library, in partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Press, initiated the DPubS project to develop an open-source electronic publishing platform designed to enable new models for scholarly communication and academic publishing. DPubS is currently under development at the Cornell University Library. Cornell is collaborating with the University Libraries and the University Press at Pennsylvania State University to test and refine the DPubS system.
[ http://dpubs.org/ ]
Duke University Press Journals Online
Launched in December 2005, Duke University Press journal content is now available through HighWire Press. Known for setting the bar for online functionality and usability as well as for the stability and robustness of its site, HighWire’s impressive array of features— including Table of Contents alerting, toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire’s collection, RSS feeds (available for select Duke University Press journals), and enhanced search features and reference linking— are now available to Duke University Press journal subscribers with online access.
[ http://dukejournals.org ]
e-Duke Scholarly Collection
The e-Duke Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals. Features of the e-Duke Scholarly Collection include include a tiered discounting structure, access to available issues from the 2000–2007 volumes, print subscriptions made available to collection subscribers at a deeply discounted rate. Hosted by Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press, subscribers to the e-Duke Scholarly Collection can take advantage of an extensive set of features, including access to back content for current subscribers (for most titles), enhanced search features and reference linking, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, table of contents alerting, toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire’s collection (919 journals), and RSS feeds (available for select Duke University Press journals).
[ http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke ]
Earthscape
Columbia Earthscape is an interdisciplinary, online archive that connects the social, political, and economic dimensions of the Earth sciences with classroom needs. Columbia Earthscape makes a broad base of resources more widely available, including journals and abstracts, international conference literature and working papers, environmental legislation, full-text monographs, selected chapters, and news, alongside basic textbooks, lectures, image banks, multimedia exercises, and labs. A Columbia University Press/EPIC project.
[ http://www.earthscape.org ]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Sponsored by the American Studies Association and edited by Miles Orvell (Temple University), the Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS) contains over 660 online, searchable articles and bibliographies, bringing together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States. It contains broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. In addition, biographies offer a cultural perspective on figures as diverse as Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bob Dylan. EAS now features advanced search functionality, the ability to save and email citations, new printer friendly page views, plus new articles updated quarterly throughout the year.
[ http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/ ]
The Founders' Constitution
Originally published in five volumes totaling more than 3,200 pages by The University of Chicago Press, The
Founders' Constitution is an essential resource for understanding the
principles that guided the framers of the American republic. The Founders'
Constitution consists of extracts from the leading works of political
theory, history, law, and constitutional argument on which the framers and
their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced. The documents
included range from the early 17th century to the 1830s, from the
reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in
ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political
actors of the day. The Web edition contains all the text of the print
edition and makes it searchable for easy use.
[ http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ ]
GAIA
GAIA--the Global, Area, and International Archive--is a unique collaboration between International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Press, the California Digital Library, and internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses. Our goal is to publish the best peer-reviewed scholarship within both established area and regional studies and new areas of inquiry that break down boundaries between traditional disciplines and regions. All GAIA volumes are published digitally and made available free of charge to a global network of scholars. In so doing, we hope to encourage international intellectual exchange and to provide a viable model of distributed, peer-reviewed publication that responds to the increasing market pressures faced by traditional scholarly publishers.
[ http://repositories.cdlib.org/gaia/ ]
Gutenberg-e
A project of the American Historical Association and Columbia University
Press/EPIC, and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Gutenberg-e
selects six prize-winning history manuscripts per year. The scholars are
given grants to turn these monographs into multi-media e-publications.
The project is exploring innovative ways of publishing new, creative scholarship,
while maintaining the highest standards of peer-review. The Gutenberg-e publications are now available in open access and through the ACLS Humanities E-Book collection.
[ http://www.gutenberg-e.org
]
The History Cooperative
Four leaders in historical scholarship and cutting-edge technology
have joined forces to create the premier resource for historians on the
Web. The American Historical Association, the Organization of American
Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy
Press have launched The History Cooperative. For the first time, the full
text of current issues of the American Historical Review and the
Journal of American History will be available electronically to
members of the AHA and OAH and to institutions that subscribe to the print
versions of the journals. Journals that have also been added to the project
include: The History Teacher, Law and History Review, Western
Historical Quarterly, and The William and Mary Quarterly. Also,
free full access to The Booker T. Washington Papers Online from the University
of Illinois Press is available via the Cooperative.
[ http://www.historycooperative.org/home.html
]
The History
E-Book Project
The History E-Book Project is a collaborative effort of the American
Council of Learned Societies and several university presses, including
the University of California Press, Columbia University Press, Harvard
University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Michigan
Press, The MIT Press, New York University Press, University of North Carolina
Press, Oxford University Press, and Rutgers University Press. It is dedicated
to publishing, in electronic format, quality monographs in the field of
history.
[ http://www.HistoryEBook.org
]
INscribe
INscribe, the electronic publishing platform of Indiana University Press, was launched in January 2007. It provides online access to the current volumes of the 29 journals currently published by the Press and to a multi-year back run for most of the titles, where available. Subscribers have access to the backrun for as long as their subscriptions are active. A unique feature of INscribe is the Press's partnership with the Association of African Universities and the Global Fund for Women. Institutional members of the first and grant recipients in Africa and the Middle East of the second have open and unrestricted access to the entire database and are encouraged to download content for educational and community uses.
[ http://inscribe.iupress.org ]
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
An indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse since its publication online in 1997, the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has been expanded and updated to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship. The new online edition features 48 new entries and subentries compiled by 275 specialists from around the world. It presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field’s most important figures, schools, and movements, with more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Three new entries will be added in 2007, with several new entries scheduled for subsequent years.
[ http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/ ]
Johns Hopkins University Press: Online Reference Division
Publishing tradition meets the latest technology in the Online Reference Division of the Johns Hopkins University Press, where four dynamic products—The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, The Encyclopedia of American Studies, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, and The World Shakespeare Bibliography—are delivering the power and convenience of digital reference to scholars, students, and libraries. Easy to use and navigate, the four online references are also affordable—in sharp contrast to high-priced commercial products and “big deal” bundles that are taxing library budgets. Institutional subscriptions range from $250 to $500 per year, and subscriptions for individuals range from $50 to $250 per year. The Press is expanding this initiative and expects to launch several other major projects in calendar 2008.
[ http://www.press.jhu.edu/references/index.html ]
MIT CogNet
CogNet is an online community focusing on the brain and cognitive
science. It features conference materials, on-line books and reference
services, and interactive discussions about the latest developments in
the field.
[ http://cognet.mit.edu
]
The National Academies
Press
National Academies Press (NAP) offers all of its titles—more than
2,100—on-line, fully searchable and readable, for free. They have
recently conducted a study, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
of new ways to deliver the content electronically, and possible pricing
models. The final report of the study is available to the scholarly publishing
community here: NAP Evaluation Study
of E-Publishing Initiatives.
[ http://www.nap.edu
]
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
The nation's first state encyclopedia written specifically for the internet is a joint project of the University of Georgia Press, The Georgia Humanities Council, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO. The New Georgia Encyclopedia launched in February 2004 with approximately 700 articles, with plans for expansion. The encyclopedia is strictly digital and free to all users.
[ http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org ]
Office of Digital and Scholarly Publishing
The Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing is a joint initiative of the Penn State Press and the Penn State University Libraries devoted to opening new avenues for publishing humanities scholarship. Major open-access projects include a monograph series, Penn State Romance Studies, also available as print-on-demand; a journal archive based on the publication backfiles of Pennsylvania historical organizations; and a re-publication series, Metalmark Books. The ODSP is also exploring the publication of conference proceedings and new journal content using the DPubS platform.
[ http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/scholarlycomm/index.html ]
Ohio State Open Access Initiative
The mission of The Ohio State University Press is to disseminate the best scholarship as widely as possible. Towards that end, they are making the complete texts of certain books available from their Web site. You will need the free Adobe Reader or another PDF-enabled program to read the text. All titles available this way, whether old or new, have gone through the exact same peer review process as our printed books. Any book that carries our imprint—no matter what medium is being used—has been approved by our Editorial Board after a thorough vetting process. Visit the Web site to view available online titles.
[ http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/openaccess.htm ]
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
For over thirty years, historians, political scientists, sociologists, military analysts, and students have turned to the 21-volume Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower to find the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through full term of his presidency. This massive collection includes documents—many of them previously classified—from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. The complete electronic edition combines the full text of all 21 volumes—over 14,000 pages—with a powerful search engine and user-friendly interface.
[ http://eisenhower.press.jhu.edu/ ]
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides online, institutional, worldwide subscription access to the current full text and more than 10 years of selected archives for over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Established in 1995, MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University and the 60+ participating university press and not-for-profit publishers. MUSE currently offers six journal collections to meet the needs of a variety of library subscribers, with a tiered, affordable pricing model and library-friendly license terms.
[ http://muse.jhu.edu
]
Purdue e-scholar
Purdue e-scholar is the Purdue University Press's digital site which is part of the Purdue University Libraries' university-wide digital repository. The Press's site stores selected Press content, provides all of the content freely to the Purdue community, and provides several of the journals available to global scholars under an open access model. Purdue e-scholar is also a test bed allowing Purdue faculty, the Purdue University Libraries, and the Purdue University Press to address current issues in scholarly access and distribution and information needs that will arise as new technologies impact current practices.
[ http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/thepress/ ]
The RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation (RAND) offers all of its publicly available
titles--more than 3,500--online as searchable, readable, and
downloadable
PDFs for free and adds more just-published and archival titles every
week.
[ http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/ ]
Rotunda
The Electronic Imprint of the University of Virginia Press has established Rotunda, a new line of digital scholarship combining the originality, intellectual rigor, and scholarly value of traditional peer-reviewed university press publishing with thoughtful technological innovation designed for scholars and students. Rotunda's debut publication, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, was the first component in an American Founding Era collection. Forthcoming titles include a digitized edition of the multi-volume Papers of George Washington, to be released in Fall 2006. Rotunda also offers the Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture collection, including works on Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, and William Wells Brown, author of the first African-American novel, Clotel. In addition to "born-digital" publications, both collections will include newly digitized critical and documentary editions originally published by university presses and scholarly societies. Rotunda is made possible by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the President's Office of the University of Virginia.
[ http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu ]
RUN: Research in the United Nations
Research in the United Nations is a digital repository for scholarly research from organizations within the United Nations system. It was established by United Nations University Press together with two research institutes within United Nations University: UNU-WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research); and UNU-IIST (International Institute for Software Technology). The collection is hosted at UNU-IIST and is in continuous development. By the end of 2006 it included documents from UNU system and UNRISD, the UN Research Institute for Social Development.
[ http://run.iist.unu.edu/ ]
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Published by JHUP for the Folger Shakespeare Library and edited by James Harner (Texas A&M University), the World Shakespeare Bibliography is widely recognized as the most comprehensive Shakespeare database in the world. Created in 1950 and now containing over 100,000 annotated entries, this important resource is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England. WSB is updated quarterly throughout the year and features a wealth of Shakespeare information from a variety of sources covering 1965-2004. Featuring complex bibliographic searches by subject, author, title, keyword, date, language, and publisher, WSB is a valuable tool for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
[ http://www.worldshakesbib.org/ ]
Digital Scholarly Communications Resources & Publications:
The Iowa Review
The Iowa Review is sponsored by The Graduate College and The Project on the Rhetoric of Enquiry, and The Department of English at the University of Iowa, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Publishing electronic literature since 1999, the site is well-known for its commitment to new writing. Starting in 2002, TIR now includes--along with electronic literature--other varieties of experimental writing and art. It also features interviews with innovative writers, and critical articles and essays. TIR Web adds new work every three months. Much of this work is solicited by the editors and members of the Advisory Board.
[ http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/ ]
Electronic Literature Organization
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another. Hosted by UCLA, the ELO is now housed at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[ http://eliterature.org/ ]
MediaCommons
MediaCommons is a new media studies press for the digital age — a network in which academics, students, and other interested members of the public can forge critical pathways through a mediated world and publish dynamically in a mediated
environment. MediaCommons is under development by the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication annex, The Institute for the Future of the Book.
[ http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/ ]
MITH: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
MITH is a collaboration among the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. MITH functions as an applied think tank for the digital humanities, both in furthering the excellence of its Fellows' research and in cultivating its own innovative research agendas--currently clustering around the broad theme of pattern recognition.
[ http://www.mith2.umd.edu/ ]
Nature
Nature, the international weekly journal of science, is undertaking a trial to open peer review. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. The trial is optional for authors; it will continue in parallel with Nature's usual procedures, and does not affect the likelihood of eventual publication of the submitted work. At the same time as the trial, Nature is running a web debate on peer review.
[ http://www.nature.com/ ]
The NINCH Guide
The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
[ http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/ ]
NINES
NINES is a project to found a publishing environment for aggregated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American.
[ http://www.nines.org/ ]
Rice University Press
Rice University has re-launched its university press as an all-digital operation. Using the open-source e-publishing platform Connexions, Rice University Press is returning from a decade-long hiatus to explore models of peer-reviewed scholarship for the 21st century. The technology offers authors a way to use multimedia -- audio files, live hyperlinks or moving images -- to craft dynamic scholarly arguments, and to publish on-demand original works in fields of study that are increasingly constrained by print publishing.
[ http://ricepress.rice.edu/ ]
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