Open Content and publishing on Demand

July 26th, 2006

Inside Higher Ed :: New Model for Scholarly Publishing:
It might be summer but the Open Content movement continues to gather strength.
Here is the first of two post on recent announcements / releases.
“Rice University Press, which was killed in 1996, will be revived. But unlike every other university press, it will publish all of its books online only. People will be able to read the books for no charge and to download them for a modest fee. Editors will solicit manuscripts and peer review panels will vet submissions — all in ways that are similar to the systems in traditional publishing.”
Much to be welcomed especially given Rice’s association with the Connexions project. Interesting - why would I publish through Rice, rather than just put the PDF on my own web site. Guess the answer has to be that they see publishing through the Rice site as conveying some kind of additional prestige. I am not so sure this will work in the long term.

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