From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 19:42:50 +0100 The same applies to Oxford and Cambridge - at least for their academic publications (not sure whether it applies to everything on their lists) Sally Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:37:08 -0500 No commercial publisher has a faculty editorial board that is given the responsibility of reviewing readers' reports and approving publication of every book proposed by the publishing staff. That is what I meant by "quality control," Rick, and it is indeed unique to university presses and is a requirement of their membership in the AAUP. Sandy Thatcher At 2:48 AM -0400 7/4/12, LIBLICENSE wrote: > > From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:46:32 +0000 > >> All >> university presses are mandated to have quality control procedures in >> place for their operations. That is what makes them university >> presses. > > > Er, no. What makes them university presses is the fact that they're owned > and run by universities and call themselves university presses. If having > "quality control procedures in place for their operations" made a > publisher a university press, then by that definition most (if not all) > trade publishers would be university presses. > > -- > Rick Anderson > Acting Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library > University of Utah > [log in to unmask]