New Platforms and Discovery Tools: Toward 21st‐Century University Presses and Libraries

Abstract

The following is a transcript of a live presentation at the 2015 Charleston Library Conference. Leila Salisbury: Good morning. I am thrilled to see all of you here this morning. We're very fortunate to be joined by some very sharp thinkers from publishing on funding and librarianship who are going to talk with us about how scholarship can be curated and interpreted and used better by our patrons. First thing this morning we're going to hear about two Mellon-funded projects designed to break new ground discovered only in the linking of humanities texts and to create iterative editions of scholarly that will work alongside scholarship itself. Talking about these two programs will be Susan Doerr, who is the operations manager at the University of Minnesota Press and co-principal investigator for the Manifold Scholarship Project, and Ellen Faran, who is the director emerita of the MIT press and is the project manager for the UPScope project. Then we'll hear from Helen Cullyer, program officer in the scholarly communications division of the Mellon Foundation who is helping fund these two projects and many others, and she's going to talk with us a little bit more broadly about Mellon's work and interest in this area. Then we're going to hear from Angela Careno, head of collection development for the division of libraries at NYU, and Tyler Walters, who is dean of university libraries and professor at Virginia Tech. So we'll hear from all ends, and I'm just going to turn it over to the panel and listen and leave little time for questions this morning.

Library Publishing and the University Press in the United States and Germany: Lessons from Two Academic Contexts for Sustaining the Scholarly Book

“…Overall, the number of newly released titles (cf. Annual DNB 2013, 2014and 2015 continues to grow, while retail prices have continued to rise and print runs to become shorter (see Greco and Wharton 2008). We consider this to be a shift in professional publishing from depth to breadth, meaning that the necessarily limited capacities of a professional press have to be distributed over a growing number of titles, as the attention of consumers (and the budgets of libraries) become ever scarcer resources for which publishers must compete.…”