ISMTE Asia Pacific Conference & COPE Workshop

There is uncertainty and opportunity in equal measure in scholarly publishing today. Rapid technology consolidation, a proliferation of business models, and changing patterns of behaviour in the academic ecosystem of authors, editors, libraries, and publishers make for both challenges and a fertile ground for experimentation. For example, in an era when monographs sell far less than half of what they used to, how can university presses continue to meet this publishing function that’s core to the mission in new ways? Nick Lindsay will explore how The MIT Press has met these challenges head on across all aspects of its book and journal publishing programs, from the origins of the Knowledge Futures Group to its burgeoning open access publishing program.