As commercial scholarly publishing consolidates and costs continue to rise, universities are working to regain control over how scholarship is disseminated, maintained, and acquired. This panel will examine the promise and challenges of university-based publishing—from university presses to library publishing programs and beyond.
Panelists will discuss:
Thursday, October 23
1 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Annie Martin is Editorial Director at Indiana University Press. She brings more than two decades of experience in acquisitions and academic publishing, beginning her career at Wayne State University Press, where she held several roles, including senior acquisitions editor and editor in chief.
Kate is a librarian who works to develop collective action strategies to "advance increasingly open, more equitable scholarship", the guiding star of the libraries of the Alliance. To solve shared problems and bring operations to scale, Kate develops programs that strengthen academy-owned open access publishing. She also provides leadership to programs that both support the creation of open access materials and also facilitate investments in sustainable open access content and infrastructure.
Mary Rose Muccie has worked in scholarly publishing for over 35 years and has been Director of Temple University Press and Scholarly Communications Officer in Temple Libraries since 2014. Before coming to Temple, she was the founding Director of the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program, Director of Project MUSE, and Publisher at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. At Temple, she oversees the Press’s publishing program, which produces 45 to 50 books annually, and launched robust open access publishing services within the Libraries.