Flogging a Dead Book?: Prospects for the Scholarly Book and the University Press in Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
Stephen James
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Book ◽  
The University

Historiography and PostmodernismTelling the Truth about History, by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob. New York, W.W. Norton, 1994. xiv, 322 pp. $25.00.Modern Historiography: an Introduction, by Michael Bentley. London and New York, Routledge, 1999. xii, 182 pp. $16.99 (paper).Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse, by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995. xii, 381 pp. $43.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper).Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice, by Martin Bunzl. London and New York, Routledge, 1997. viii, 152 pp. $22.99 (paper).Acton and History, by Owen Chadwick. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 270 pp. $49.95.Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism, by Ewa Domańska. Charlottesville and London, University Press of Virginia, 1998. xii, 293 pp. Distributed in Canada by Scholarly Book Services Inc., $96.25 (cloth), $31.25 (paper).In Defence of History, by Richard J. Evans. London, Granta Books, 1997. ix, 307 pp. £8.99 (paper).The Footnote: a Curious History, by Anthony Grafton. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. xi, 241 pp. $22.95.Objectivity is not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History, by Thomas L. Haskell. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. viii, 426 pp. $35.95.The Degradation of American History, by David C. Harlan. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 289 pp. $41.00 (cloth), $15.95 (paper).On "What is History?" From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, by Keith Jenkins. London and New York, Routledge, 1996. viii, 200 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper).Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, by Donald R Kelley. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 340 pp. $17.00 (paper).The Truth of History, by C. Behan McCullagh. London and New York, Routledge 1998. viii, 327 pp. $25.99 (paper).Deconstructing History, by Alun Munslow. London and New York, Routledge 1997. vi, 226 pp. $24.99 (paper).History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past, by Gary B. Nash Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. xiv, 318 pp. $26.00.Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges, by Mark Poster. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. ix, 173 pp. $47.50 (cloth), $16.50 (paper).The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice, by Bonnie G. Smith Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 306 pp. $35.00.History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives, by Beverley C. Southgate. London and New York, Routledge, 1996. xii, 167 pp. $18.99 (paper).The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theories are Murdering our Past, by Keith Windschuttle. New York, The Free Press, 1997. 298 pp. $26.00A Global Encyclopaedia of Historical Writing, edited by Daniel R. Woolf. New York and London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. 2 volumes, xxxiv, 1047 pp. $175.00.

1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kent
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Practice

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

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo Bargheer ◽  
Kizer Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
University Library ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
National Trends ◽  
The University

AbstractMany academic libraries have embraced an active publishing role in recent years, an important component in libraries’ efforts to address mounting pressures throughout the scholarly communications cycle. Libraries in the United States and Germany have been especially assertive in this arena. This article focuses on one particular aspect of libraries’ publishing efforts in Germany and the U. S.: interventions to make the production and dissemination of the scholarly book (in print and electronic formats) more economically sustainable and its content more open. This article discusses the role of the scholarly book for early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences and reflects on intercontinental differences. The article considers the library efforts in the context of broader, university-based publishing activities in both national contexts, particularly the relationship of library publishing and university presses. The authors discuss how differences and commonalities between the academic and economic contexts in the U. S. and Germany have led to institutional responses that diverge and converge in significant ways and they suggest that such a comparison can usefully inform scholarly communications strategies in both countries. The article considers broad national trends and also draws on examples from the authors’ home institutions: the State and University Library at Göttingen and Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York.

E-book and print book price and desirability for university libraries: a comparative study

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.N. Rao ◽  
Sunil Kumar ◽  
Manorama Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Price Policy ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the prices of print and electronic versions of the same scholarly titles charged from a university library. This study also examines whether preferences for print or electronic formats differ with disciplines and whether high preferences for the electronic version in particular disciplines lead to tagging of high prices for e-books in those disciplines. This study evaluates association in prices of e-books and their print versions for scholarly books. It also explains trends in gaps of prices of electronic and their print versions over the time to understand changing price policy of e-books with time. Design/methodology/approach This is a case study analysing and interpreting prices of 717 book titles available in electronic and print versions out of 1248 book titles recommended by the faculty members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in early 2014. The minimum prices quoted by publishers or aggregators for these books became the secondary data for the study. The research methodology is based on quantitative descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Findings The study statistically rejected the hypothesis that price tags of electronic and print versions of books do not differ significantly. E-books are usually more expensive than their print counterparts. They are more highly priced in disciplines, where the users prefer electronic books over the print ones. There is a moderate association in prices of electronic and their print versions; libraries can estimate about the budget which would be required for procuring books in electronic format with the help of price of print version; however, the accuracy of this stipulation would be only 20 per cent. The study has highlighted that 95.4 per cent of the scholarly e-books in English medium are published in the USA and the UK. The university presses of Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton and MIT and commercial publishers like Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate and Springer are the major publishers and providers of the scholarly e-books. Originality/value This study provides insights into pricing policy of electronic and their print versions of scholarly book titles for libraries. Thus it may be relevant and helpful for library administrators in informed decision making while developing their collections for books.

scholarly journals The Social Sciences: Who Won the ‘90s in Scholarly Book Publishing

2004 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Wiberley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
American Educational Research Association ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
American Political Science

The study of prizes awarded to books in the 1990s by leading social sciences scholarly associations helps us understand the disciplines, publishing, and libraries during that decade. This article examines data on prizewinners of the American Anthropological Association, the American Educational Research Association, the Association of American Geographers, the American Political Science Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Sociological Association. For the prizewinners, it reports the distribution of winners among publishers and universities; the extent of cross-disciplinary publishing; the degree of coauthorship; trends in library acquisitions of print versions; and accessibility of electronic versions. The University of Chicago Press ranked first among publishers, and the faculty at Harvard won more prizes than did faculty at any other institution. Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal classifications assigned to the winners show substantial cross-disciplinary interest. Sixteen percent of the books were coauthored. Library print holdings appeared to decline over the decade by approximately 20 percent; and in April 2004, 19 percent of prizewinners were available electronically.

scholarly journals MAGNA CARTA IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY FIRST CENTURIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Michael J Beloff QC
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
Magna Carta ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The Great Charter is often portrayed as the source of English liberties: a medieval document which projected its beneficent light forward over eight centuries and which, while representing the triumph of barons over monarch, brought to birth principles which had equal resonance for an age of representative governance and universal suffrage.Such portrayal is naturally and explicably depicted in brighter colours in this its 800th anniversary with celebrations, exhibitions, conferences, a new and scholarly book co-authored by none other than the recently retired Lord Chief Justice, the aptly named Lord Judge, and a no less scholarly but more sardonic one by the historian and Television pundit David Starkey and last but not least, these lectures under the auspices of the University of Buckingham.I am particularly happy to be invited to give the first of these lectures since it enables me to discharge my obligation as a Visiting Professor which, I regret, that I have hitherto honoured only in the way of the Oxford don who, when asked during a mid-twentieth century inquiry into the governance of the University about his teaching duties, replied ‘I have to give an annual lecture – but not, you understand, every year’.

Proceedings of The Modern Language Association of America

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1343
Keyword(s):  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Tuesday Morning ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The fifty-second meeting of the Modern Language Associationof America was held, on the invitation of the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 1935, and January 1, 1936. The Association headquarters were in the Netherland Plaza Hotel, where all meetings were held except those of Tuesday morning and afternoon. These took place at the University of Cincinnati. Registration cards at headquarters were signed by about 900, though a considerably larger number of members were in attendance. The Local Committee estimated the attendance at not less than 1400. This Committee consisted of Professor Frank W. Chandler, Chairman; Professor Edwin H. Zeydel; Professor Phillip Ogden; Mr. John J. Rowe (for the Directors); and Mr. Joseph S. Graydon (for the Alumni).

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

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