“Making a Difference. Making You Think”: Open Access at the University of Calgary Press

Аннотация

Our move to Open Access publishing at the University of Calgary Press began with a new vision and with our Africa: Missing Voices series. But the move has been made possible through the collaboration and support of our library colleagues. The University of Calgary Press is a mid-sized scholarly press that publishes 20 books a year and provides its imprint to nine scholarly journals. Three years ago, we did an operational review and emerged with a new vision: “Making a difference. Making you think.” We want to publish work that moves the conversation forward, emphasizing works that make a difference and spark new research. As simple as our vision sounds, its underlying concept has proven to be a remarkably robust and effective evaluation tool. It is startling to see how much of the material that comes across our desks doesn’t really make us think.