Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Responsible members of the Administration must disclose some hard facts about the necessity for yet another board rate increase, before anyone should consider paying the new rate. The Dining Hall Department has a moral obligation to seek out and publish the facts behind its recent request, an obligation in which it has failed miserably thus...
...Russian announcement was a welcome change; in the past they have released little or no information gathered by their satellites. The Russians promised to publish Lunik's other findings as soon as the raw data has been winnowed...
...Publish or Perish. What is true of Oklahoma can also be said of university presses across the U.S. No longer content with murky monographs on the mud turtle, or the academic jargon of cloistered professors, the presses have become favorites of U.S. readers. This year the 50 members of the Association of American University Presses will produce 1,300 new books on subjects ranging from art to zoology. In their own field-adult, hardcover nonfiction-universities will account for one out of every four original books in the U.S. and sell them for about $14 million, more than double their...
...small in big business terms, but it is significant in terms of growth and the new directions the presses are taking. Starting with the first U.S. press at Cornell in 1869, university publishers long concerned themselves solely with faculty books too abstruse or too specialized for commercial publishers. For years, they plodded along producing the dusty and dull, expanded only when the "publish or perish" dictum started influencing a scholar's status. Even then, the growth was slow...
...modern hurricane forecasting. Other university presses are ready this fall with a list of impressive books that might never see print without university backing. Harvard University Press (over 100 titles last year) is bringing out the first of four volumes of John Adams' diaries. This month, Yale will publish the first of 40 volumes of Benjamin Franklin's papers. The University of Minnesota has launched a series of critical introductions to U.S. writers aimed at foreign readers, while the Johns Hopkins Press is running off copies of its five-volume Presidential Nominating Politics just in time...