ANU E Press the Australian National University

When was the ANU E Press was formed at Australian National University ? What are the reasons to establish the ANU E Press at Australian National University .

[Kiran Chandar]

ANU E Press is now ANU Press .ANU E Press, was established in 2003 the year to explore and enable new modes of scholarly publishing .

The reasons to establish the ANU E Press at Australian National University are given below :

• a determination to eliminate barriers inherent in existing models of scholarly communication

• a recognition of the need to create an effective mechanism for disseminating high quality ANU scholarship that lacks a ready commercial market

• an acceptance that the operational overheads of the conventional academic press are no longer affordable

ANU Press:

• provides standardised publishing processes via a generic set of publishing workflows

• provides content indexing in the form of subject headings and metadata

• converts original format files to XML

• publishes works in both electronic and print formats

Contact Details :
ANU Press
J. B. Chifley Building (#15)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

Telephone: (02) 6125 0262
Facsimile: (02) 6125 1629