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• E-journals: University of Calgary is a partner in the Synergies project and the Press is
encouraging relevant journals to participate. The Press is currently advising its journals to
covert to online formats by the end of the current contract year (three years). They are
using the Open Journal Software for publishing their journals and are looking at how to
adapt this to their monograph publishing, possibly using the Open Monograph Press
software now being beta tested by Athabasca University Press.
• Author agreements: The Press received a Flying Squad publishing consultation grant
from Canada Council to review their author agreements with the above arrangements in
mind. They are revising their author contract and are happy to share it with interested
publishing colleagues.
Case Study: University of Toronto Press
www.utppublishing.com
The University of Toronto Press was founded in 1901 and is Canada's oldest and largest scholarly
press and is one of the largest university presses in North America. They publish approximately
150 new scholarly, reference, and general-interest books and maintain a backlist of over 1800
titles in print; as well as publish over 30 scholarly journals. In 2008 they acquired the Social
Science & History lists from Broadview Press and have established a new division which focuses
on publishing textbooks.
The Press is a global publisher drawing authors from both Canada and the International academic
communities. The market for their monographs reaches well beyond Canada, with about 45% of
sales going to the US market. Books are sold into libraries, the trade market and for use on course
with sales fairly evenly split between the three major sectors.
In 2008, UTP digitized over 1300 of their backlist titles for release though library e-bok
aggregators, such as the Canadian Electronic Library. Books in this initial collection were
published prior to 2006. UTP continues to add to their collection and has included the majority of
titles published up until 2009. While the uptake in Canada through the CRKN process was
significant, sales into the broader market have been modest. The bulk of revenue continues to
come from print sales. A recent survey they conducted across North America confirmed that
monographs are in the midst of a transition period where the demand is still high for print books
but interest in growing for electronic books.
Late in 2009, the Press made their first foray into digitizing some of their backlist in order to
make selected titles available in e-book format (xml) for sale to consumers through the ebook
retailers (e.g. Sony, KOBO, Amazon, Apple (later this year). As with the previous
digitization/conversion project, the work was contracted out to an offshore vendor. The
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