American Council of Learned Societies The History E-Book Project

The ACLS received a $3-million grant in June 1999 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to sponsor an electronic publishing initiative for books of high quality in the field of history. ACLS History E-Book Project

publish electronic books in History explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies help to assure the continued viability of history writing in today’s publishing environment create a not-for-profit space in e-publishing

ACLS History E-Book Project Partners 5 Scholarly Societies in the Field of History 10 University Presses DLPS (Digital Library Production Service)

ACLS History E-Book Project Partners: Scholarly Societies American Historical Association Middle East Studies Association Organization of American Historians Renaissance Society of America Society for the History of Technology

ACLS History E-Book Project Partners: University Presses University of California Press Columbia University Press Harvard University Press Johns Hopkins University Press The MIT Press New York University Press Oxford University Press Rutgers University Press University of Michigan Press University of North Carolina Press

ACLS History E-Book Project Partners: Review Committee Jonathan R. Cole, Provost & Dean of Faculties, Columbia University John H. D’Arms, President, ACLS Colin Day, Dir., Univ. of Michigan Press (now of Hong Kong U. Press) Billy E. Frye, Chancellor, Emory University David M. Kennedy, Stanford Univ., McLachlan Professor Carol Mandel, Dean, Division of Libraries, New York University Deanna Marcum, Pres., Council on Library & Information Resources James Neal, Johns Hopkins Univ., Dean of Library & Sheridan Director Ann Okerson, Yale University, Associate University Librarian

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Frontlist—85 titles Backlist—over 500 titles

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Frontlist Goal 85 new books from 10 participating university presses within first 5 years of project

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Frontlist Progress: 80 projects identified to date 66 titles now under consideration 25 actively moving forward; 14 already signed with university presses about 6 titles are complete manuscripts about 42 are proposals-in-development 14 have been rejected

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Backlist Goals 500 books in the field of history (first round) works that remain vital to scholars and advanced students and are frequently cited in the literature selected on the basis of the quality of the work not restricted to titles from the ten participating presses

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Backlist Progress: accumulated list of over 1550 titles: books recommended by individual historians books recommended by committees of participating learned societies and prize-winning history titles (Bancrofts, Pulitzers, etc.)

ACLS History E-Book Project: The Books Backlist Progress: 1550 titles segmented by field and period and reviewed by a Review Committee of distinguished scholars list of approximately 750 recommended titles finalized on December 1, 2000

ACLS History E-Book Project Books: Backlist Review Committee Europe : Ancient to 400 c.e.William Harris, Columbia U Edward M. Peters, U. of Pennsylvania *Ronald G. Witt, Duke U PresentJan Goldstein, U. of Chicago Middle East Middle East Studies Association submitted a reviewed list. *Renaissance Society of America submitted a reviewed list.

ACLS History E-Book Project Books: Backlist Review Committee American Colonial to 1789James Horn, Intl. Ctr. for Jefferson Studies Sheldon Hackney, U. of Pennsylvania 20th CenturyAlan Brinkley, Columbia U. General David Kennedy, Stanford U. Science & Technology Society for the History of Technology submitted a reviewed list.

ACLS History E-Book Project: Backlist Titles American Colonial to th Century44 General 58 Science & Technology 60 Europe Ancient to 400 c.e Present77 General18 Middle East 100 TOTAL = 740 Titles

ACLS History E-Book Project: Backlist Titles Adding New Titles/Next Round Related Backlist Titles from Frontlist Authors Asian African Latin American

ACLS History E-Book Project: Backlist Titles Current Status Contracts sent to over 130 publishers Contracts now being negotiated, reviewed, and signed Contracts being sent to individual authors when rights have reverted to them Books are coming in for processing Web site design is underway Initial launch expected Summer 2001

ACLS History E-Book Project: Features and Functionality Backlist/frontlist library will be fully searchable –Browse, Simple, Boolean, Proximity, Citation Backlist titles will be linked to their reviews in JSTOR and elsewhere online Frontlist titles will be linked to relevant backlist and to external archives, etc. Printing will be page-by-page Downloading will not be an option

ACLS History E-Book Project: Backlist Technology Conversion by Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan Backlist titles will be presented as images using DLPS tiff-to- gif technology Searching will be done on accompanying text pages created from OCR –Browse, Simple, Boolean, Proximity, Citation Similar projects: Making of America and JSTOR

ACLS History E-Book Project: Frontlist Technology Web Site vs. E-Book XML-tagged frontlist books Created with templates based on print-publication processes DTD based on TEI Lite Ease-of-transition from word-processing files to page composition files to web files Projects to include internal links to images and notes Projects can include links to sound and video files

ACLS History E-Book Project: Access Subscriptions to libraries for campus-wide access Subscriptions for entire collection Annual subscription fee on a sliding-scale based on size of institution (FTE) $300 for small college–$1200 for large university; final prices will be available at ALA in June Pricing model is being tested against costs and return expectation for presses Discounts available for consortia Individual subscriptions will be available Subscription agreements will be available at ALA in June

ACLS History E-Book Project: Contact Information Project Directors: Eileen Gardiner: Ronald G. Musto: TEL: FAX: Subscription Information: Linda Zerella: TEL: FAX: Web Site: