Tag Archives: Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing

April 25, 2013, 11:00 am

On Open Access, #AltAc and the Future of the Academic Press: A Conversation with Duke University Press, Part Three

This is part 3 (the final part) of the ninth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

In this third and final installation of the interview, I speak with Ken Wissoker (@kwissoker), editorial director of Duke University Press, about open access publishing, the future of the academic press, and alternative academic careers.

AK: Let’s talk about open access publishing. Does your press have a policy regarding open access? Are you trying to move towards that in terms of your journals or your books?

KW: We don’t have an overall policy….

April 17, 2013, 11:00 am

Buying Book Chapters like Music Tracks, and What’s Wrong with Traditional Peer Review Anyway? A Conversation with Duke University Press, Part Two.

By Adeline Koh

This is part 2 of the ninth interview in a series by Adeline Koh entitled Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

In this second part of an interview with Ken Wissoker (@kwissoker) (editorial director of Duke University Press), I speak with Ken about some of the digital innovations Duke University Press is experimenting with for its new publications, and on Ken’s appreciation for traditional forms of peer review. Read part one of the interview here.

AK: What I’m hearing from you is that length is very malleable when you publish something digitally. You can have the really…

April 9, 2013, 11:00 am

On Monographs, Libraries and Blogging: A Conversation with Duke University Press, Part One

By Adeline Koh

duke chapel This is part 1 of the ninth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

In this interview I speak with Ken Wissoker (@kwissoker), editorial director of Duke University Press, one of the most well-known university presses for innovative books on global cultural theory. This first installment covers Ken’s thoughts about the relationship between the academic library and press at Duke, publishing your research online before you find a traditional publisher, and the future of the monograph.

AK: Hi Ken, thanks so much for speaking with us…

January 10, 2013, 11:00 am

Rethinking Peer Review in Academic Publishing: An Interview with Frontiers

By Adeline Koh

This is the eighth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

Today I speak with Kamila Markram, president of Frontiers, a new online platform for open access publishing in science fields. Frontiers is a grassroots initiative started by scientists for scientists, with an immensely innovative new peer review system. Our discussion today covers Frontiers’ scope and goals, and how it plans to contribute to the changing landscape of academic publishing.

AK: Could you explain what Frontiers is about, and what makes it distinct from …

November 27, 2012, 8:00 am

Build Your Own Open Access Journal: An Interview with Rob Walsh of Scholastica

By Adeline Koh

This is the seventh interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

Want to start your own open-access journal? Find out more today as I speak with Rob Walsh of Scholastica, a new journal publishing platform. Scholastica aims to make open access feasible for existing and new journals by charging a small $10 fee when an author submits to a journal. This fee can be paid by the author, journal, or an institution that would like to pay on behalf of its authors. The article, if accepted and published, will be made freely…

October 22, 2012, 8:00 am

Open Access Ahoy: An Interview with Ubiquity Press

By Adeline Koh

This is the sixth article in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press, Anvil Academic and the Penn State University Press.

This interview is with Brian Hole of Ubiquity Press (@ubiquitypress), a small new London-based digital publisher of peer reviewed, open-access academic journals. Unlike many traditional publishers, Ubiquity only takes payment for the service of publication, rather than taking over the rights to research and then selling access to it. While Ubiquity is still a for-profit company, it has much in common with Anvil Academic, another open-access venture that I interviewed earlier this…

October 8, 2012, 11:00 am

A ProfHacker TweetChat with Anvil Academic: Presenting Digital Work for Promotion and Tenure

By Adeline Koh

Last Friday, ProfHacker ran a live TweetChat with Anvil Academic (@anvilacademic), a new press that aims to bring scholarly rigor to publishing digital projects. Anvil is led by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Read our former posts about Anvil here, here, and visit their spanking new website (now accepting submissions!) here. You can also find some great overviews of Anvil’s work in Jack Dougherty (@doughertyjack)’s and Lisa Spiro (@lisaspiro)’s blog posts.

Below is an edited Storify of the chat that showcases the major topics discussed on Friday with the core Anvil team on Twitter. If you are interested in the entire discussion, visit the unedited Storify here. Also, if you have a digital project that you’d like to discuss at any stage for consideration with Anvil, contact Fred …

October 5, 2012, 8:00 am

Digital Killed the Analog Star, Redux: A Live Tweetchat with Anvil Academic TODAY, 12pm-1pm EST

By Adeline Koh

ProfHacker will be hosting a live Tweetchat TODAY with the core team for Anvil Academic, a press seeking to develop new standards for forms of digital publication used for promotion and tenure. ProfHacker featured Anvil’s mission last week, and an interview with its editor, Fred Moody, on Tuesday.

Have lots of questions for Anvil? Wondering if your digital project will be a good fit? Join us TODAY (Friday, October 5) from 12pm-1pm EST for a live Tweetchat with Fred (@moodyfred, Editor), Lisa Spiro (@lisaspiro, Program Manager) and Korey Jackson (@koreybjackson, Program Coordinator and Analyst). We will be using the hashtag #anvil for our live tweetchat. Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) will be hosting the discussion. We look forward to seeing you there!

Creative Commons Image by Bluebike on Flickr.

October 2, 2012, 8:00 am

Digital Killed the Analog Star: An Interview with Fred Moody of Anvil Academic Press

By Adeline Koh

This is the fifth article in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world.

The series has featured interviews with Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

Today I speak with Fred Moody (@moodyfred) of Anvil Academic, a new open-access digital press that aims to reshape the broken system of academic publication. Led by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Anvil aims to bring rigorous and innovative forms of peer review to digital publications, and develop new standards for digital publication in promotion and tenure. I introduced Anvil and its mission …

July 10, 2012, 1:11 pm

Is Open Access a Moral or a Business Issue? A Conversation with The Pennsylvania State University Press

By Prof. Hacker

[Adeline Koh is an assistant professor of literature at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey. She currently directs two digital humanities projects: Digitizing ‘Chinese Englishmen,’ an open-source resource on 19th century ‘Asian Victorians,’ and The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project, an online magazine on postcolonial studies and the digital humanities. Find her on twitter at @adelinekoh. -GHW]

This is the third article in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world.

Is university research being held captive by morally suspect for-profit academic publishers charging exorbitant prices for journal subscriptions? Since the…