{"id":21,"date":"2011-07-13T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fehrensp\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:42:15","slug":"universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fehrensp\/2011\/07\/13\/universities\/","title":{"rendered":"University Presses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oapen.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\">OAPEN <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvisibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOpen Access publications from across Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are around 1000 titles available, 251 in the humanities alone.<\/p>\n<p>The following University Presses are members of OAPEN:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amsterdam University Press<\/li>\n<li>Leiden University Press<\/li>\n<li>G\u00f6ttingen University Press<\/li>\n<li>Manchester University Press<\/li>\n<li>Presses Universitaires de Lyon<\/li>\n<li>Firenze University Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/press\/\">University of Adelaide Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There  are currently 13 monographs in the database of the University  of  Adelaide Press. The subjects are both in the humanities as well the   sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aupress.ca\/index.php\/\" target=\"_blank\">Athabasca University Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are currently 98 titles available from Athabasca University Press. The subjects range from Anthropology to Women&#8217;s Studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.anu.edu.au\/titles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ANU E Press <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Australian National University Electronic Press offers great many titles:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hosted by the Division of Information at The Australian National  University, ANU E Press was established in 2003 to explore and enable  new modes of scholarly publishing. Taking advantage of new information  and communication technologies to make available the intellectual output  of the academic community of the ANU, the primary focus of ANU E Press  is the production of electronic scholarly texts. However, all texts are  also available for purchase through a Print on Demand (PoD) service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.cdlib.org\/ucpressebooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books   from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science,   history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the entire collection  of  electronic books is open to all University of California faculty,  staff,  and students, while more than 500 of the titles are available to  the  public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg-e.org\/\">University of Columbia Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Gutenberg-e is  now  an open access site.  These award winning monographs, coordinated  with  the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new   possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative   with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral   histories. The American Council of Learned Societies  also carry   Gutenberg-e titles on their Humanities E-Book platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 35 monographs available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The National Academies Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable to anyone free of charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 4000 titles available!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Ohio State University Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiostatepress.org\/index.htm?\/books\/openaccess.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Ohio State University Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 68 e-books available in literary studies, including  narrative theory, Victorian studies, medieval studies, history and  classics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruor.uottawa.ca\/en\/handle\/10393\/12941\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">University of Ottawa Press<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Ottawa Press offers 55 monographs in English and French with a wide array of subjects in the humanities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpubs.libraries.psu.edu\/DPubS?Service=UI&amp;version=1.0&amp;verb=Display&amp;handle=psu.rs\" target=\"_blank\">Penn State University Press &#8211; Romance Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 9 titles so far available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAPEN &#8220;OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 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