Transcript American Council of Learned Societies The History E
American Council of Learned Societies
The History E-Book Project
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ACLS History E-Book Project a
ACLS History E-Book Project a In June 1999, with a $3-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ACLS undertook an electronic publishing initiative for books of high quality in the field of history.
The project launched in September 2002, two years ahead of schedule.
It became self-sufficient in April 2005.
• • • • • • • • ACLS History E-Book Project Goals Encourage historians to plan and write e-books Encourage scholarly publishers to develop programs in electronic publishing Explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies Help to assure the continued viability of history writing in today ’ s publishing environment Help insure quality and depth over quantity Create a not-for-profit space in e-publishing Encourage the acceptance of e-books for hiring, promotion, tenure and review Encourage libraries to add quality lists in history to their electronic resources
ACLS History E-Book Project Partners • • • • 8 Scholarly Societies in the Field of History 65 University Presses SPO (Scholarly Publishing Office) and DLPS (Digital Library Production Service) at the University of Michigan 450 participating libraries and consortia
ACLS History E-Book Project Partners: Scholarly Societies • • • • • • • • African Studies Association American Historical Association Association for Asian Studies Latin American Studies Association Middle East Studies Association Organization of American Historians Renaissance Society of America Society for the History of Technology
ACLS History E-Book Project The Books • • • • 1,250 titles (retrospective conversion) 250 titles are being added each year First new XML titles launched in June 2003 40 new XML titles projected by 2006
ACLS History E-Book Project The Books New Title (XML) Goals • • • • 55 new books from Any participating university press Library production/publishing offices Learned Societies with Publishing Programs
ACLS History E-Book Project Partners: University Presses, XML Titles • • • • • • • • • • Cambridge University Press University of California Press Columbia University Press Harvard University Press Johns Hopkins University Press The MIT Press New York University Press Oxford University Press Rutgers University Press University of Michigan Press
ACLS History E-Book Project The Books • • • • • Collection criteria: Quality and usefulness: deep search and text access works that remain vital to scholars and advanced students and are frequently cited in the literature selected on the basis of the quality and longevity of the works that form part of a scholarly network of titles
ACLS History E-Book Project The Books • • • • Quality of selection guaranteed: books recommended by individual historians books recommended by committees of participating learned societies and prize-winning history titles (America and National Book Awards, Jackson-Turner, Atlantic, Toynbee, Haskins, Bancroft, Pulitzer, Marraro, Parkman, Beveridge, Curti, Breasted, Fairbank, Del Rey, Gershoy, Hourani, Dexter, Hacker, Baxter Adams, Beer, Birdsall, Corey, etc.) Special review committee of ACLS
ACLS History E-Book Project The Books • • • • • • Titles now include all fields Titles both in- and out-of print Full-text and deep-search across collection Publication dates range from 1820s to 2005 Over 300 titles now available through HEB Print on-Demand Lightning source and SPO hard-copy, in all formats
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Areas American Colonial to 1789 1789-1900 20th Century General Science & Technology Europe Ancient to 400 c.e.
400-1400 1400-1800 1800-Present General Middle East
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Review Committee Europe : Ancient to 400 c.e.
400-1400 1400-1800* 1800-Present William Harris, Columbia U.
Edward M. Peters, U. of Pennsylvania Ronald G. Witt, Duke U. Jan Goldstein, U. of Chicago Middle East Middle East Studies Association submitted a reviewed list.
*Renaissance Society of America submitted a reviewed list.
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Review Committee American Colonial to 1789 1789-1900 20th Century General James Horn, Intl. Ctr. for Jefferson Studies Sheldon Hackney, U. of Pennsylvania Alan Brinkley, Columbia U.
David Kennedy, Stanford U.
Science & Technology Society for the History of Technology submitted a reviewed list.
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Review Committee Comparative/World Anand Yang, University of Washington, Seattle African African Studies Association submitted a reviewed list.
Asian Association for Asian Studies submitted a reviewed list.
Latin America LASA, Maryssa Navaro, submitted a reviewed list.
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Review Committee Australasia/Oceania Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne Byzantine Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago Native Peoples of the Americas Frederick Hoxie, University of Illinois, Champagne Women’s Studies List in development (2006)
ACLS History E-Book Project Adding Titles • • • Next Rounds Over 250 titles selected for each year Related backlist titles suggested by authors of new XML books 250+ titles developed for 2005 in Comparative/World, Byzantine, Australasia/Oceania, Native Peoples of the Americas.
ACLS History E-Book Project Features and Functionality • • • • • • • Entire library is fully searchable Simple, Boolean, Proximity, Bibliographic Browse by Title, Author, LC Subject (MARC) Titles linked to their reviews in JSTOR, Project MUSE, History Co-operative and elsewhere online XML titles are linked to relevant titles, to external archives, web sites, etc.
Scholarly Fair-Use rights & restrictions on printing and downloading.
Free downloadable MARC records to entire collection Free downloadable user stats
ACLS History E-Book Project Technology • • • • Conversion by Scholarly Publishing Office and the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan Titles are presented as images using DLPS tiff-to-gif technology Searching is done on accompanying text pages created from multiple, collated OCR scans (99.9% accurate) Similar projects: Making of America and JSTOR
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Titles • • • • • • • An e-book series vs. one-off web sites XML-tagged new titles DTD based on TEI Lite Ease-of-transition from word-processing, page-make-up and PDF files to XML-tagged files to HTML web files Created with templates that can be streamed for print, POD, web-browsers, and other devices Replicable, scalable, predictable, and sustainable Standard format and citation methods
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Titles • • Include internal links to images and notes Can include sound and video files, external archives, comparative texts, digital libraries and archives • Citation and Reporting: – – new titles are “chunked” and numbered by paragraph for ease of scholarly citation and reporting.
ACLS History E-Book Project Access • • • • • • • • Subscriptions to libraries for campus-wide access or on-site public library patrons Simultaneous, unlimited access 7/24 to entire campus community (on and off-campus) Electronic course reserve Annual subscription for full collection on a sliding-scale based on size of institution (FTE
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Carnegie ratings) or population Price range from $350 (small college, etc.) to $2000 (large research university, etc.) 3-year price guarantee Discounts available for consortia Individual subscriptions through Learned Societies ($25/year)
ACLS History E-Book Project Subscriptions • • • • • • • Subscription agreements signed by over 450 libraries and consortia, including: Research Universities: Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc.
State Systems: California State University, Kansas Regents, Ohiolink, the University of Texas Public Libraries: NYPL Research Libraries, etc.
Smaller Libraries: Bryn Mawr, Mt. St. Mary’s, Lyon College, York College, etc. Numerous secondary-school libraries Non-U.S. Libraries: American University in Cairo, Central European in Budapest, Soka University (Tokyo), University of Singapore, University of Reading (UK), etc.
Consortia include ACA, Cal State, CIC, Danish Research, JISC, NELINET, NERL, OCLC, PALINET, WALDO, etc.
ACLS History E-Book Project Browse
ACLS History E-Book Project Basic Search
ACLS History E-Book Project Search Results
ACLS History E-Book Project Search Results Detail
ACLS History E-Book Project Title Record Page
ACLS History E-Book Project Link to Publisher
ACLS History E-Book Project Link to Online Reviews
ACLS History E-Book Project Link to JSTOR
ACLS History E-Book Project Interactive Table of Contents
ACLS History E-Book Project Book Page Display
ACLS History E-Book Project Enlarged Page Image
ACLS History E-Book Project By Page Navigation
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Page
ACLS History E-Book Project Comparative Texts
ACLS History E-Book Project High-Resolution Image Viewer
ACLS History E-Book Project Related Historiography
ACLS History E-Book Project Search Results: XML Title
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Notes
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Titles: In-Page Image
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: High-Res Image Viewer
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: High-Res Image Viewer
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Image Library
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Image Library Search
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Image Comparison
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Detail of MS Source
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: Interactive Map
ACLS History E-Book Project XML Title: On-Line Database
ACLS History E-Book Project Print-on-Demand (POD)
ACLS History E-Book Project Print-on-Demand (POD) • • • • • • • • • • • Over 300 titles currently available all fields and publication dates in- and out-of-copyright both true POD (one-at-a time) and multiple (Short-Run-Digital) for course use created from the same files that produce online books available through SPO at the University of Michigan and Lightning Source all formats (loose, spiral bound, soft- and hardcover) 11 - 15 cents/page 2 weeks for delivery
ACLS History E-Book Project Print-on-Demand: Detail
ACLS History E-Book Project Contact Information •
Project Directors:
Eileen Gardiner: [email protected]
Ronald G. Musto: [email protected]
TEL: 212-838-0641 FAX: 212-838-7812 •
Subscription Information:
TEL: 646-485-5939 FAX: 212-949-8058 •
Web Site: www.historyEbook.org