When the book van goes missing…
Staffers at the University of Georgia Press were plunged into bureaucratic farce last Friday when the van full of books they’d brought to set up for the Decatur Book Festival suddenly… Read more »
Goldsmiths launches new university press
Goldsmiths College is launching a new and ‘inventive’ academic publisher named The Goldsmiths Press. Goldsmiths, which is located in South London, is part of University of London and is already… Read more »
The Ivy League gets with the program: Jennifer Crewe named first female director of an Ivy university press
The Ivy League is known for many things: academic excellence, of course, but also less admirable features such as seafoam-green chinos, early morning crew practice, and far, far too many… Read more »
Will open access revolutionize academic publishing?
“Major players in the world of commercial scholarly publishing have little shame,” says Bryn Geffert, librarian at Amherst College and the man behind the new Amherst College Press. Fed up with… Read more »
University of Missouri Press is back in business … but in a strange new form
Good news, we hope, for the University of Missouri Press. In late May the university announced it was closing the five-decade-old press—the press had been operating with a deficit for… Read more »
Could a university’s football program be supporting its baseball-focused press?
It’s baseball time in America, and one university press is hoping all the enthusiasm for the country’s “most literary” of sports results in higher book sales. The University of Nebraska… Read more »
The University of Michigan Press, one of the country’s leading university presses, announced yesterday that it is going to shift from releasing its books in traditional print format to releasing… Read more »
The famous medieval manuscript library, The Abbey Library of St. Gall, is underway developing a virtual library of all 400 of its priceless texts and manuscripts dating from before 1000… Read more »
The economic crisis that’s been whacking the conglomerate publishing and bookselling scene has finally gotten to the university press world, with two of the largest and most prestigious announcing big… Read more »
Attacks on Google Print continue, with a scathing statement from the Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers, the trade association representing nonprofit publishers, such as university presses, around the… Read more »