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Campus-based publishing partnerships offer the academy greater control over the intellectual products that it helps create. To fully realize this potential, such partnerships will need to evolve from informal working alliances to long-term, programmatic collaborations.

SPARC’s Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues addresses issues relevant to building sound and balanced partnerships, including:

• Establishing governance and administrative structures;
• Identifying funding models that accommodate the objectives of both libraries and presses;
• Defining a partnership’s objectives to align the missions of the library and the press;
• Determining what services to provide; and
• Demonstrating the value of the collaboration.

SPARC’s Campus-based Publishing Partnerships will help libraries, presses, and academic units to define effective partnerships capable of supporting innovative approaches to campus-based publishing.

Selected contents:

I. Introduction
II. Overview of existing collaborations
III. Strategic objectives for presses and libraries
IV. Funding models and financial structures
V. Practical partnership issues