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Digital Monograph Publication

This session brings together authors, digital scholarship professionals, and academic press professionals to share their stories of collaboration in publishing digital monographs of all stripes—from enhanced open access editions of conventional print books to born-digital interactive scholarly works. How did these works come into being? Why were the authors committed to digital publication? What support did their home institutions provide? When and how did publishers enter the picture? What challenges emerged during the editorial and production processes, and how were they resolved? How can we encourage a shared vocabulary for these digital publications among the wider scholarly communications community? The session focuses less on demonstrating the works themselves and more on the ways in which various stakeholders collaborated to fully realize the project or author’s vision.
PD2020 Session 13
Release Date: 08/17/20
Business Models & Strategies | open access, digital humanities, author services, collaboration

Professional Development Series

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Our debut series on the SSP OnDemand Library, the 2020 Professional Development Series offers presentations on current trends and issues in scholarly communications—from the impact of COVID-19 to diversity, equity, and inclusion in publishing--available at your convenience. New video presentations will be released each week; free materials and paid sessions can be accessed individually or as part of a group; all recordings may be accessed asynchronously, but registrants can also interact with presenters and fellow audience members during live screenings! Videos will be offered on the following topics: Business Models and Strategies, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Editorial Innovations, Ethics and Standards, Global Trends, Research Perspectives. Featuring panels of leaders in their respective fields, this series is a must for anyone wishing to keep abreast of the latest developments in the industry.

Allison Levy

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Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University

Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. In this role, she brings together organizational, academic, and technological resources across the University to support new forms of faculty-driven scholarship. An art historian, Allison earned her Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College and has held academic appointments at University College London, Wheaton College, and Tulane University. She has published widely on the visual and material culture of early modern Italy, and serves as General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.

Beth Fuget

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Grants and Digital Projects, University of Washington Press

Beth Fuget manages grants and digital projects at the University of Washington Press, including the press’s first open access and complex digital books. She also worked as an acquisitions editor at Washington and before that, as a writer, editor, translator, and teacher.

Crystal Brusch

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Darcy Cullen

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Assistant Director, Acquisitions, University of British Columbia Press

Darcy Cullen, Assistant Director, Acquisitions, at the University of British Columbia Press, is a publishing professional with experience in acquisitions, strategic planning, and international partnerships. In her role, she founded RavenSpace, a platform for the publication of media-rich, interactive books that are based on community engagement in Indigenous studies. She has published in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing and the volume Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text.

Sarah McKee

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Associate Director for Publishing, Emory University

Sarah McKee, Emory University, Assoc. Director for Publishing; Sarah McKee is the senior associate director for publishing at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, where she implements the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to her arrival at Emory in 2017, she worked for fifteen years at the University of Georgia Press, first as an assistant production editor, and then as electronic editor and managing editor for the New Georgia Encyclopedia, an open access digital humanities reference work.

Susan Doerr

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University of Minnesota Press

Susan Doerr is Associate Director of the University of Minnesota Press. With grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Minnesota developed Manifold, a web-based platform for publishing scholarly projects, in collaboration with the CUNY Graduate Center and Cast Iron Coding. Susan has experience in literary, corporate, and scholarly publishing and distribution, and has served on the AUPresses board of directors and is a past President of the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable, Minnesota’s book publishing association.

Digital Monograph Publication: Rethinking Relationships and Collaborative Models

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This session brings together authors, digital scholarship professionals, and academic press professionals to share their stories of collaboration in publishing digital monographs of all stripes—from enhanced open access editions of conventional print books to born-digital interactive scholarly works. How did these works come into being? Why were the authors committed to digital publication? What support did their home institutions provide? When and how did publishers enter the picture? What challenges emerged during the editorial and production processes, and how were they resolved? How can we encourage a shared vocabulary for these digital publications among the wider scholarly communications community? The session focuses less on demonstrating the works themselves and more on the ways in which various stakeholders collaborated to fully realize the project or author’s vision.