Re: ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY PRESSES

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I appreciate your help Ann and may I also take this opportunity of
thanking those others who have passed on to me references online and
offline. I am passing these on to the student in question, who, I am sure,
will be very grateful


Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Okerson" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
To: "liblicense" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY PRESSES

> See also:
>
> <www.ei.virginia.edu>, Electronic Imprint at the University of Virginia
> Press. From the home page:
>
> Electronic Imprint
>
> The Electronic Imprint (EI) of the University of Virginia Press
> publishes new digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
> Our mission is to combine the traditional roles of university press
> publishing with technological innovation in order to disseminate
> peer-reviewed work comparable in its originality, intellectual rigor,
> and scholarly value to the books issued by the print side of the Press.
>
> EI is experimenting with new forms of publication and with new business
> models for distribution as part of a nonprofit press. We hope to provide
> instructive examples for scholars, libraries, sponsoring institutions,
> and other publishers who join us in expanding academic publishing into
> the digital realm.
>
> Our first publication, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, was formally
> launched the first week of August 2004. It is the first publication in
> what we are calling Rotunda, our name for the collection of online works
> from UVa Press. Rotunda now has its own gateway page that will serve as
> an entrance to the publications, where subscribers can read them or
> search them in depth, and where others can survey the offerings and sign
> up for a trial subscription. Now that Rotunda has launched, this website
> will serve primarily as a source of documentation and information for
> project authors.
>
> We actively seek new projects; please see the For Authors section of our
> site for information on submission and publication guidelines.
>
> EI is supported by funds from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the
> President's Office at the University of Virginia.
>
> Ann Okerson/Yale Library