https://www.cliffordanderson.net/tags/academic-publishing/Academic PublishingHugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-usTue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cliffordanderson.net/media/icon_hu_1f25fc939507c92a.pnghttps://www.cliffordanderson.net/tags/academic-publishing/https://www.cliffordanderson.net/blog/point-of-academic-books/Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cliffordanderson.net/blog/point-of-academic-books/<p>In <em>Pacific Standard</em>, Noah Berlatsky examines a paradox at the heart of scholarly publishing: university press books exist to disseminate knowledge, yet high prices and small print runs keep most of them out of readers&rsquo; hands. The article weighs open access as a way out of the bind.</p> <p>Clifford Anderson, director of scholarly communications at Vanderbilt University Libraries, points to a couple of ways open access might work financially. &ldquo;One model,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;is to charge authors a fee for publishing their monographs in open access. These fees may be paid either out of faculty research funds or by library-administered funds set up to defray such costs.&rdquo; Another option would be &ldquo;to offer open-access versions on the Web and charge for premium versions—such as print and Kindle editions.&rdquo;</p> <p>Anderson also notes that some presses are already experimenting with open-access books, such as the University of Michigan Press&rsquo;s Digital Culture Books imprint. </p>