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RMIT Publishing: neither fish nor fowl
Author(s) -
WRIGHT Janette,
HEARN Sara
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315107779490625
Subject(s) - publishing , context (archaeology) , electronic publishing , fish <actinopterygii> , open access publishing , library science , advertising , management , business , political science , fishery , economics , geography , world wide web , biology , the internet , computer science , law , archaeology
In a time when university presses are struggling to survive and most require financial support from their parent institutions, RMIT Publishing – an electronic publisher from its inception in 1989 – has grown its annual sales from AU$2.8m in 2003 to an expected AU$6m in 2007. This 100% sales growth in five years has been achieved by RMIT Publishing's unique, context‐driven approach to electronic publishing. This approach has made RMIT Publishing the publisher of choice for Australian databases, aggregated scholarly content for the global market and now ‘born‐digital’ publications.