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THE SPECIALIZED SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH IN CRISIS OR, HOW CAN I GET TENURE IF YOU WON'T PUBLISH MY BOOK?

SEPTEMBER 11-12, 1997
WASHINGTON, DC

CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY:

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES
ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES

"Saving 'Tenure Books' From a Painful Demise" Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/1/96
"Profit Squeeze for Publishers Makes Tenure More Elusive" New York Times, 11/18/96

Recent headlines in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education warn of the dangers posed by the threat to the specialized scholarly monograph. The primary market for specialized monographs--research libraries--has been burdened over the past decade with significant increases in the costs of science and technology journals, resulting in dramatic decreases in monographic purchases. Faced with this eroding market and declining subsidies from both universities and funding agencies, university presses can no longer afford to publish the specialized research which is central to their mission. As a consequence, young faculty are not getting tenured or promoted, undermining the future of education and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

This conference on the specialized scholarly monograph brings together faculty, administrators, publishers, and librarians to focus attention on an issue central to the entire academic enterprise. It examines the current state of scholarly communication and explores the potential of new technologies to provide both new means of dissemination and new formats for conducting research and communicating the results.

The conference examines:

• the issues involved in the creation and dissemination of scholarly communication from the perspectives of a university administrator, scholar, publisher, and librarian;
• the functions and costs involved in the scholarly communication process, examining the factors which have contributed to the endangered status of the monograph;
• expectations for young faculty, and how and why they are changing;
• how the issues differ across fields and disciplines and how these variables affect the decisions made by the presses;
• current experiments in monographic publishing; and
• new frameworks in scholarly communication and how these might provide new models for creation and dissemination of research.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

• John D'Arms, ACLS
• Charles Beitz, Bowdoin College
• Scott Bennett, Yale University Library
• Stanley Chodorow, University of Pennsylvania
• Colin Day, University of Michigan Press
• Sandria Freitag, American Historical Association
• Joanna Hitchcock, University of Texas Press
• Steve Humphrey, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Robert Langenfeld, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• Peter Nathan, University of Iowa
• Teresa Sullivan, University of Texas at Austin
• Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press
• Robert Wedgeworth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

For more information or to register online, see

<http://arl.cni.org/scomm/epub/program.html>

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