{"id":1878,"date":"2021-09-01T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:42:13","slug":"acu-press-partners-with-jstor-for-ebook-distribution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2021\/09\/01\/acu-press-partners-with-jstor-for-ebook-distribution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU Press partners with JSTOR for eBook distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1942\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/02\/Jstor-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abilene Christian University Press (ACU Press) is pleased to announce that it has signed a license agreement with JSTOR to offer digitized versions of select titles to academic libraries. More than 70 titles from the ACU Press imprint will be added to JSTOR\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Books at JSTOR<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> program, allowing libraries the opportunity to purchase or subscribe to these works through their existing JSTOR agreements. Because subsequent revenues and royalties will be shared between JSTOR and ACU Press, this agreement will provide additional revenue to ACU Press and increase the visibility and impact of its authors. ACU Press joins more than 275 leading academic publishers in 43 countries in this partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJSTOR helps scholars find the best academic resources for research and teaching.\u00a0 ACU Press is proud to join this premiere digital collection, placing our titles in libraries around the world,\u201d said Jason Fikes, Director of ACU Press and Leafwood Publishers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cACU Press publishes research and scholarship that is unique in its scope but speaks to a large conversation about American Religious History, Faith and Literature, Texas History, and several other areas of strategic emphasis for ACU,\u201d said James Wiser, Dean of Library Services and Educational Technology for Abilene Christian University. \u201cThis partnership with JSTOR will open up those works for discovery by nearly every academic library around the world, and will engage our authors with scholarly conversations everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACU Press joins the University of Texas Press and Texas Tech University Press as the third university press in the state of Texas to participate in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Books at JSTOR<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> program. To view the entire list of academic publishers affiliated in this way with JSTOR, please visit the following URL: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.jstor.org\/librarians\/books\/participating-book-publishers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/about.jstor.org\/librarians\/books\/participating-book-publishers\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About ACU Press<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acupressbooks.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abilene Christian University Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of only seven university presses affiliated with a faith-based university. Since being formed in 1984, it has released or acquired 560 titles and averages twenty new titles per year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Press is a member of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aupresses.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Association of University Presses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and has published works in the following areas:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> American Religious History and Theology<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Christianity and Literature<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Faith-Based Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Texas History and Culture\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About JSTOR\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.jstor.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JSTOR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR\u2019s core collections are available at more than 10,000 institutions around the globe. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform.\u00a0 JSTOR has been offering academic books on its platform since 2013.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abilene Christian University Press (ACU Press) is pleased to announce that it has signed a license agreement with JSTOR to offer digitized versions of select titles to academic libraries. 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