Cornell launches an Open Access university press

From: The Scientist | Date: March 15, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

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Cornell University, located primarily in Ithaca, New York, announced in January that it has created Internet-First University Press, which will offer old and new books under Open Access. The new publisher was launched with a catalog containing four original publications and several titles that were previously out of print. In addition to free online access, readers will be offered the option of purchasing printed copies through a print-on-demand system. Internet-First is built within Cornell's institutional archive that uses the DSpace software developed at Massachusetts Institute of ...

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