How do and university press collaborations advance digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences?

Libraries and Presses are moving closer together, giving greater opportunities for 80 research institutions collaboration on digital in the US and Canada projects. have both an ARL member library AND an AAUP member press

More AAUP Presses are 48.7% reporting to : of respondents in the AAUP Library/Press in 2009 Collaboration 14 Survey report that their press and library collaborate on in 2015 publishing programs. 24

Library/Press survey respondents’ planned Open educational resources future projects within Digital preservation projects existing partnerships , peer-reviewed e-journals that support digital Open access series/imprints scholarship: Open access digital of press backlist titles space for supplementary materials for printed books Websites Library/Press collaborations improve access to existing research, create innovative digital publications, and promote interdisciplinary research.

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2005: Penn State University Press The Alliance for and Libraries partnered in this Networking Visual formal way to support long- term collaborations such as the Culture digitization of books from the Libraries’ Beaver Collection and 2007: The Alliance was developed the Penn State Romance Studies as an organization to connect series, both available open access.

scholars, , libraries, and university presses to explore the publication of multimodal, Dangerous Citizens interactive scholarship in visual, film, and media studies. Online

2009: This author-press-library collaboration of a scholar at Columbia University, Fordham PRESENT University Press and the Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship resulted in an online book with multiple layers of Purdue University anthropological analysis to supplement a print . 2015: Integration of the Purdue University Libraries and Press

has led to support of digital scholarship through end products like open-access digital The University of versions of backlist titles, new online open-access peer- Michigan reviewed journals, multimedia objects made available through 2015: The Press received a grant the university’s institutional and from the Andrew W. Mellon data repositories, the Journal of Foundation to support the Purdue Undergraduate development of a new platform Research, and the integrated using Hydra/Fedora to publish research environment and preserve digital humanities HABRICentral. , and link them to datasets, interactive information, video, and other non-text based online material. The Press is collaborating not only with its library, but with FUTURE presses at Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern and Penn State. New roles

Institutions such as Temple University, Indiana University, More grant-funded Oregon State University, Purdue, and Michigan are all developing collaboration positions that are shared between their press and library. Northwestern University Press Positions like these allow for partnered with their library to increased collaboration in apply for the Humanities Open support of digital scholarship. Book Program, jointly sponsored

by NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The press proposed to digitize and make Library Publishing available in open access format Coalition out-of-print titles in African studies, literary criticism, and The Library Publishing Coalition philosophy. Award recipients will presents more opportunities for be announced in December library/press partnerships. 28% 2015. of respondents in the 2015 Library Publishing Directory partner with a university press. There is room for growth and new collaborations here.

Library and University Press Collaborations create new opportunities for the development of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

In memory of Julia C. Blixrud, whose contributions to the profession are evident through her support of many of the projects mentioned and sources cited here.

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