March 21, 2008

The University Press of the Future

To the Editor:

One can't really tell how it happened, but university presses seem to have gotten the reputation of change blockers, stuck in the printed-monograph era ("Celebrations and Tough Questions Follow Harvard's Move to Open Access," Hot Type, The Chronicle, February 29). Open access? Close it up. E-books? Egad. Digital repositories? Over my dead book.

Harvard's open-access policy is bringing to light, finally, some of the real issues that will shape scholarly

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