July 28, 2006

Rice U. Will Start the First All-Digital University Press

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Rice University announced this month that it would start the first all-digital university press, hoping that its experiment would serve as a model for other institutions struggling with the harsh economics of scholarly publishing.

Peer review and editing at the new press will be done the old-fashioned way:The press will hire a full-time editor and will have an editorial board, for instance. But once the books are accepted and edited, the digital files will be placed on a Web site

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