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Webinar on publishing open textbooks: Should You Publish

February 04, 2019  /  John Warren

Universities around the world are responding to the need and demand for open educational resources (OERs) in many ways, including publishing open textbooks. But how do you go about launching an open textbook publishing program?

Hosted by the Open Textbook Network, this is the first of a series of three webinars on building an open textbook publishing program. In this video, I discusses the following:

- Would a publishing program further the goals of your unit and/or institution?

- Is there demand on campus for OER publishing services?

- Do you have the resources necessary to start a new program?

- How can you find potential partners, including funders, for open textbook publishing?

- What does an editorially/strategically-driven model look like?

This is a “Once in a Lifetime” webinar and presentation.

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tags / Publishing, Library Publishing Coalition, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Textbook Network

Interview with Composer/Guitarist Jürg Kindle: Practical Aspects of Classical-Guitar Composition, Part III

August 30, 2017  /  John Warren

For my article on practical matters of composition for classical guitar (Classical Guitar, Summer 2017), I interviewed three acclaimed composers and a publisher of classical guitar music. This series of posts publishes the full interviews. The second is with Jürg Kindle, one of the most prominent contemporary pedagogical composers for the classical guitar.

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categories / Classical Guitar, Publishing, Composition, Music
tags / Jürg Kindle, Composition, Classical guitar, Pedagogy, Teaching, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Edition Kalimba

Innovation and the Publishing Start-Up

May 02, 2017  /  John Warren  /  Source

Choice magazine's annual University Press Forum offers the perspectives of University Press directors on a variety of topics. This year's Forum—the 13th in the series—addresses the topic of Innovation at the University Press. Essays from eight University Press directors are included in this year's Forum, including Bruce Austin, RIT Press; Courtney Burkholder, Texas Tech University Press; Faye Chadwell, Oregon State University Press; Steve Cohn, Duke University Press; Linda Manning, The University of Alabama Press; Gianna Mosser, Liz Hamilton, and Jane Bunker at Northwestern University Press; Mary Rose Muccie, Temple University Press; and yours truly.

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categories / Publishing, Learning
tags / Publishing, Innovation, Start-Ups, Strategic Planning, Leadership

University Presses Gather on a High Note

June 29, 2015  /  John Warren

University press representatives from the US, Canada, and abroad ascended to the Mile-High City for the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) 2015 Annual Meeting, June 18–20, on a high that probably had little to do with the marijuana dispensary across the 16th Street Mall from the host hotel Sheraton Denver. Despite the reality that many presses are necessarily accepting the mantra that “flat is the new up”—particularly for small to medium presses that the AAUP terms Tier 1, 2, and 3—the mood in Denver was decidedly upbeat. AAUP’s membership is a decidedly collegial and supportive group of professionals truly concerned with the creation, production, and dissemination of scholarship. The meeting’s theme “Connect, Collaborate” was not an empty platitude. The meeting’s positive mood can also be attributed to spirit of innovation embraced by many presses, the feeling that while scholarship and the academy are changing, university presses are willing and able to evolve and help drive developments, even if the precise path from here to there is still opaque.

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categories / Publishing
tags / Publishing, Digital Publishing, University Presses, Hypothes.is, Luminos