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Read more: Apprenticeships in Academic Publishing – Part 1: The Scheme
Apprenticeships in Academic Publishing – Part 1: The Scheme
National Apprenticeship Week featured prominently in the media earlier this month, which made us think about the scheme and how it is represented in Academic Publishing. We therefore decided to speak to several people involved and have received so many good responses that we have decided to create two blog posts about it. This is…
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Read more: Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile
I first met Mrs Lee Cheng Ean in January 2013 at dual advisory board meetings which I facilitated in Shanghai and Beijing, but her reputation long preceded that. She is extremely well-known in both the East and the West as one of the world’s most competent and inspired librarians. I have since met her at…
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Read more: White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher
White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher
Triggered in part by the Open Access movement and also by the desire of early-career researchers and students (undergraduates as well as postgraduates) to find reputable publishing outlets for their work, in recent years there has been a steep increase in the number of university libraries setting up or encouraging the foundation of presses for…
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Read more: Audiobooks in Academic Publishing – Princeton University Press
Audiobooks in Academic Publishing – Princeton University Press
In September we published a short blog post on audiobooks in order to offer a short overview of this topic. We have since had the opportunity to speak to Kim Williams, Digital and Audio Publisher at Princeton University Press, who kindly gave us an interesting insight into the world of audiobooks in academic publishing. When…
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Read more: Grown out of dispute: how collaboration removed frustration – and DRM!
Grown out of dispute: how collaboration removed frustration – and DRM!
Last month, De Gruyter announced the launch of a new initiative, called University Press Library. From early 2020, De Gruyter’s re-launched e-book platform will provide access to the digital book content of 10 American University Presses – with some of whom De Gruyter has long had distribution agreements; others have newly signed with the Germany-based…
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