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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 21
experience dealing with the epub/xml files was significantly different and far more challenging when compared to the conversion to web-enabled pdf files. The quality control/proofing process was unexpected and very labour intensive. Several rounds of checking were required before the files were finalized. The complex nature of the Press’s publications (i.e. references, footnotes, tables and other types of figures, etc) make the process of conversion to xml quite difficult. The UTP Press is in the process of developing and transitioning to a xml editorial workflow which will reduce the impact of the conversion. The Press has been using two vendors to do short run digital printing which ensures that books no longer need to go “out of print”. They are considering alternative POD vendors, such as Lightning Source, particularly for off-shore markets. The UTPress’ books are available through a number of discovery services, such as Amazon and Google Book Search. <strong>PDF</strong> files of all new releases are sent to Amazon and Google Books on a monthly basis to enable online browsing through the ‘Search inside the Book’ programs. These services have significantly raised the visibility of their monographs. For example, figures for the last week of February 2010 show that the UT Press books have received 30,844 visits of 1853 unique titles, with 404,000 pages viewed. 454 books received ‘Buy the Book’ clicks sending the user to a online retailer (although these do not always translate into a sale – stats indicate approximately 1.5% of the 454 “clicks” to an online retailer actually purchased a book). In terms of journals, the Press publishes 32 scholarly journals mainly in the social sciences and humanities. 19 these journals are available in digital format (in addition to the print editions). The online journals are available through MetaPress, an e-content management system for scholarly publishing. Each journal is indexed at the article level and can be searched through a single access point. They also distribute their journals through a number of article aggregator services including MUSE, JSTOR and EBSCO. All UT Press journals are available through subscriptions, though subscription prices are lower than many other scholarly journals. Some of the journals are receiving SSHRC grants, but these grants do not cover the full costs of publishing. In the last several years, the Press has seen subscriptions for journals decrease, but this has been offset by an increase in royalties from aggregators. This represents a preference by users (mainly libraries) towards accessing content via the electronic aggregators. The Press is also involved with the University of Toronto Library and scholars in a project called “Lexicons of Early Modern English” which is described in more detail in the Digital Humanities section of this report. Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript. The database 22
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