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
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