{"id":1410,"date":"2006-07-14T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2006-07-14T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:31:06","slug":"rice-u-press-to-be-bookless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/rice-u-press-to-be-bookless\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice U Press to be bookless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Edupage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRICE PRESS REBORN AS ONLINE ONLY<\/p>\n<p>Rice University will restart its press, which was closed in 1996, as an online-only operation, publishing peer-reviewed books and monographs.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with declining budgets, many libraries buy fewer books, leaving academic publishers unwilling to publish books unless they can justify the printing costs. Rice&#8217;s model does away with printing, allowing the press to publish texts not published otherwise while considerably speeding up the publishing process. Because texts will be peer-reviewed, organizers hope the reborn Rice press will be as prestigious&#8211;and as valid for tenure or promotion&#8211;as a traditional press. The press will operate through Connexions, a site that offers course materials free of charge. Separately, Connexions will also begin offering print-on-demand custom textbooks, assembled from individual modules within Connexions. The textbooks are expected to cost significantly less than comparable offerings from traditional textbook publishers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/07\/14\/rice\">Inside Higher Ed, 14 July 2006<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Edupage: RICE PRESS REBORN AS ONLINE ONLY Rice University will restart its press, which was closed in 1996, as an online-only operation, publishing peer-reviewed books and monographs. Faced with declining budgets, many libraries buy fewer books, leaving academic publishers unwilling to publish books unless they can justify the printing costs. Rice&#8217;s model does away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}