As money-strapped university presses shut down nationwide, Rice University is turning to technology to bring its press back to life as the first fully digital university press in the United States.Using the open-source e-publishing platform Connexions, Rice University Press is returning from a decade-long hiatus to explore models of peer-reviewed scholarship for the 21st century. The technology offers authors a way to use multimedia — audio files, live hyperlinks or moving images — to craft dynamic scholarly arguments, and to publish on-demand original works in fields of study that are increasingly constrained by print publishing.
Rice University | News & Media
Rice will be staffing and operating this as a traditional press with an editorial board and peer review of submissions. It breaks new ground in offering publications for free on web under Creative Commons licensing. On demand print copies will be available for a fee. No launch date has ben set. The Connexions project grew up at Rice and is used by the University for distance learning programs.
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