The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced a webcast on November 20, 2009. It will be held in conjunction with the SPARC Campus-based Publishing initiative, a programme and web center designed by a panel of advisors from the library and university press communities to support successful publishing partnerships.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded four university presses with a grant to support the development of a collaborative university press e-book project. The grant will be administered by NYU Press on behalf of collaborating presses at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Rutgers University. It will fund 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.
During the webcast, Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing at New York University, will 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.
The webcast is free to attend. Interested parties may register on or before November 18 at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml.
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