July 28, 2000
Iowa State Hands Its Press to a Commercial Publisher
Iowa State University announced last week that it is turning over its university press to a commercial business -- an unprecedented move that is raising eyebrows among some scholarly publishers.
The university has agreed to merge the 66-year-old Iowa State University Press into Blackwell Science, an international scientific and technical publishing company. The press office will remain in Ames, Iowa, and its 24 employees will keep their jobs. Gretchen van
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