RE: Peter Brantley's blog

[sgt3@psu.edu]

I will ask the Journals Manager at the UT Press if there is 
another URL by which this article can be accessed. JSP is 
included in Project Muse, so anyone at an institution that 
subscribes to Project Muse should have access to it, at least.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

> Link rot? Can't get to Sandy's article mentioned from the link
> below anymore.
>
> Chuck Hamaker
> Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
> Atkins Library
> University of North Carolina Charlotte
> Charlotte, NC 28223
>
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> Subject: Re: Peter Brantley's blog
>
> Indeed, and I just contributed two postings to this discussion 
> myself. Peter Brantley and Chuck Hamaker as commentator both 
> argue that the editorial process in book publishing is not well 
> understood by librarians (and, I would add, by administrators 
> and faculty, too) unless any of them have actually served on a 
> press editorial board. I agree, and I made an effort to 
> illuminate this complex process (which has no counterpart in the 
> arena of academic journal publishing, as Paul Courant notes in 
> his comment) in an article in the Journal of Scholarly 
> Publishing titled "The 'Value Added' in Editorial Acquisitions" 
> in which I articulated nine functions that an acquiring editor 
> plays in the system of scholarly communication When librarians 
> aspire to become publishers, they would do well to understand 
> what it is they are getting into and what is required to be 
> successful in this domain. The article is accessible here:
>
> <http://www.utpjournals.com/jsp/jsp302.html>
>
> Sandy Thatcher
> Penn State University Press
>
>
> > Very interesting blog post by Peter Brantley:
> >
> > http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/06/08/on_scholarly_com
> munication_and_universit
> > The topic is the relationship between university presses and
> > libraries and the challenges of publishing in the years ahead.
> > Peter is the head of the Digital Library Federation.
> >
> > Joe Esposito