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Record W4252030016 · doi:10.3138/jsp.40.1.1

The University Press in North America: A Brief History

2008· article· en· W4252030016 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Cecile M. Jagodzinski

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Scholarly Publishing · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPublishing and Scholarly Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublishingManagementQuarter (Canadian coin)SubsidyMedia studiesSociologyLibrary sciencePolitical scienceEconomic historyHistoryLawEconomicsArchaeology

Abstract

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This article traces the history of university presses in North America, from the founding of the first presses at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The growth of colleges and universities and new imperatives that faculty engage in productive research helped shape the function of the modern university press. In the twentieth century, smaller subsidies from parent institutions, new developments in technology, and the erosion of library budgets affected the stability of many presses and forced many to revise both their editorial goals and their business and management practices. Faced with new modes of scholarly communication, the explosion of digital publishing, and the open-access movement, university presses will need to continue to adapt and to assert their proper role in the scholarly community.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.107

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0080.017
Science and technology studies0.0100.007
Scholarly communication0.0120.011
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.137 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations15
Published2008
Admission routes2
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