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On‐demand publishing in the Humanities: project
Author(s) -
Sykes Phil
Publication year - 1997
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 - 10.1087/09531519750146770
Subject(s) - publishing , principal (computer security) , on demand , electronic publishing , library science , sociology , political science , computer science , business , world wide web , multimedia , the internet , law , operating system
This article describes the ‘On‐Demand Publishing in the Humanities’ project, funded by JISC as part of the eLib programme, at Liverpool John Moores University. The principal aims of the project were to develop a ‘cheap and cheerful’ model for networking electronic texts, to develop a model agreement for the networking of copyright texts for use with publishers, and to shed light on the problems and benefits of on‐demand publishing for all the stakeholders involved. The article sets out the project methods, describes the extent to which the aims of the project have been fulfilled, analyses the reactions of end‐users to the materials, and attempts an assessment of the current viability of on‐demand publishing as a means of supplying copyright texts to students.