Rice University Press

Rice University Press
Parent company	Rice University
Status	defunct
Founded	1985 (Original press) 2006 (Digital-only press)
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Houston, Texas

The Rice University Press was a publishing house, a division of Rice University. Founded in 1985, the original version of the press shut down in 1996. In 2006, the organization was re-launched as the first fully digital university press in the United States.^[1]^[2]

Under its digital publication model, manuscripts were solicited, reviewed, edited and resubmitted for final approval by an editorial board of prominent scholars, but the finished books were published free of charge via Connexions, an open-source e-publishing platform. The technology offered authors a way to use multimedia to craft dynamic scholarly arguments, and to publish on-demand original works in fields of study that were increasingly constrained by print publishing.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In August 2010, Rice University confirmed that the press, despite being digital-only, had become too expensive to maintain.^[6] Rice University Press shut down operations in September 2010.^[2]

References

^ Boles, John B. (May 3, 2019). "Rice University". Retrieved May 16, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press: A Three Year Experiment in the United States". History of Information. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
^ "Rice University Press reborn as nation's first fully digital academic press". Rice University. July 13, 2006. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
^ Jaschik, Scott (August 19, 2010). "Abandoning an Experiment". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
^ Buckman, Rebecca (July 13, 2006). "Rice University Revives Its Press In Digital Model". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
^ Howard, Jennifer (August 19, 2010). "Rice U. to Close Its Digital Press Next Month". The Chronicle of Higher Education: PageView. Retrieved April 11, 2011.