1. The Hybrid Future of
the University Press
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
23 June 2009

2. “Band-aids don’t stop
hemorrhaging.”
— Lindsay Waters

3. crisis in scholarly
publishing

4. “Change or Die”

5. digital

6. MediaCommons
(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org)

7. technological

8. social / instutional

9. Planned Obsolescence:
Publishing, Technology,
and the Future of the
Academy

10. this presentation

11. university

12. University Publishing in
a Digital Age

13. AAU
ARL
CNI
NASULGC

14. The University’s Role in
the Dissemination of
Research and Scholarship

15. how?

16. cost recovery

17. declining subsidies

18. the bottom line

19. is a false bottom

20. instead

21. open access

22. National Academies
Press

23. (a caution)

24. value added

25. content

26. user-generated

27. services

28. hybrid

29. tools

30. infrastructure

31. collaborations

32. University of Michigan

33. challenges

34. stakeholders

35. internal

36. external

37. mission

38. my argument

39. press as service unit

40. at every institution

41. not content; services

42. disciplinary organizations

43. the speculative part

44. institutional repository

45. disciplinary indexes

46. sustainable

47. “scholarly publishing isn’t
financially feasible as a business
model — never was, never was
intended to be, and should not
be. If scholarship paid, we
wouldn’t need university presses.”
— Cathy Davidson

48. Thank you.
kfitzpatrick@pomona.edu