Glue.
I’ve had a task I’ve been ignoring over the last six weeks. Â A friend who has worked hard over the last few decades supporting his wife’s academic career has asked me to look at options for publishing her book online. Â Its a well regarded reference text in her field, and would really benefit from being more widely available – its the kind of thing that sits near the keyboard of all those in the discipline, and has a very respectable number of citations in google scholar.
Ignoring the technical issues at the moment (Latex!), the first thing is to work out whether this is a commercial or an open project, or a hybrid of both. Â My natural tendency is to go for open, but with reserved rights, so I’ve written to unglue.it to see what the options are there. Â Their operations are currently suspended, but I’m hoping (as are they) that they will be able to continue.
It would be interesting to see if a proprietary publisher would be interested, and how much they were willing to offer.
News as the project continues…