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.

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Rick Anderson
Acting Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
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