Small But Mighty: How University Presses Bring Academic Ideas to the World

摘要

One of the unspoken assumptions of open access advocates seems to be that the crowd-sourcing magic of the Internet obviates the need for the core curation and marketing functions of publishing; in other words, "post it and community response will take the place of peer review, and indexing and search will make the content discoverable." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the value of curation and marketing - for authors and readers alike - remains high, regardless of the ultimate business or dissemination model for a published work.