The Scholarly Publishing Scene--Brave New World?

摘要

I had my first book published in the late nineteen sixties. It was an engineering monograph, titled Temperature Control. It was based in part on work I was doing on the Apollo project at the MIT Instrumentation Lab. I did the literature research I needed in the MIT engineering library, which was under the dome above the building with the columns that you see when you look at the original campus from the banks of the Charles River. That building, with the dome, is cast on the sides of my MIT class ring. The main library is in a separate, more modern building further to the east on the campus.