What is it about?
This article outlines the rise and development of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK or publishing for the UK market. Based on the Jisc research project, Changing publishing ecologies: a landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing, commonalities between these two types of presses are identified to better assess their future needs and requirements. Based on this analysis, the article argues for the development of a publishing toolkit, for further research into the creation of a typology of presses and publishing initiatives, and for support with community building to help these initiatives grow and develop further, whilst promoting a more diverse publishing ecology.
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Why is it important?
This article looks at NUPs and ALPs in the UK and gives the reader an idea of who is doing what and their needs. It has given Jisc valuable data, which will help it plan what it needs to do in order to support the community. It is also hoped that other countries could reproduce the NUP survey to allow benchmarking and a further understanding of community needs
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I started this work as a researcher for the NUP portion of the research and ended it as the Senior Research Manager for Jisc Collections charged with implementing many of the recommendations - an almost perfect scenario for me! The research behind the paper gives us valuable insight into what we need to do and what we don't need to do. I hope to take this work further in the future and increase the literature in this area.
Dr Graham Stone
Jisc
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This page is a summary of: The Surge in New University Presses and Academic-Led Publishing: An Overview of a Changing Publishing Ecology in the UK, LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, July 2017, Uopen Journals,
DOI: 10.18352/lq.10210.
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