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Coming right on the heels of the overwhelmingly positive reaction we got for the publication of the second edition of the Jepson Manual, I am pleased to announce The Digital Jepson Manual. For the first time, University of California Press is offering this resource as an e-book. The Digital Jepson Manual provides an unparalleled new level [more...]  Today, UC Press, along with our distinguished peers at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell, announced a very exciting initiative with JSTOR to bring scholarly books online. This means that more than 15,000 front and back list titles will be made available at JSTOR—a huge win for scholars, researchers and students everywhere. Read more about this groundbreaking [more...] UC Press Director Alison Mudditt’s message is clear: the publishing industry is undergoing a profound transformation, and digital products are at the center of the change. Mudditt recently spoke to Book Business magazine about the the explosion of interest in e-books, two pilot “born-digital” products the Press is developing, and the new challenges scholarly publishers face. [more...] The digital scholarly monograph collection formerly known as eScholarship Editions has been renamed “UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004″. A joint project of UC Press and the California Digital Library‘s Publishing Group, the E-Books Collection includes nearly 2,000 UC Press-published scholarly books on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the [more...] UC Press Journals and JSTOR have combined forces with the Society of Architectural Historians to launch the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Online. In the journal’s online archive, audio, video, 3D models, and other multimedia enhance articles and reviews. You can explore the Roman Forum in 3D, zoom in on a [more...] Think we’re going to all make money on sales of one and two books of thousands of titles? The PersonaNonData blog recently pointed to research debunking the “Long-Tail” hypothesis. They refer to a study of music downloads that showed that of the 13 million songs available on line, 10 million were never downloaded–even once. This has [more...] |
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