digital publishing

The Gutenberg-e history monographs, begun in 1999 in collaboration with the American Historical Association, is going open source. It's a great resource--but none of the predictions about how easy and cheap it would be and all the problems of scholarly publishing it would solve have come true. It's important to think (yet again!) about why. Plus a free link (for one month) to the CHE piece.

I just heard today from Bob Stein at the Institute for the Future of the Book about Ithaka's recent report, University Publishing in a Digital Age. The link I provided there is a combination of two great efforts: the Ithaka report itself, and IFBook's new CommentPress tool, which allows anyone to contribute their thoughts on the report.