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The History E-Book Project

On September 1, 2002, the ACLS History E-Book (HEB) Project launched on its website over 500 books of high quality in the field of history. Currently the total number of titles stands at nearly 800. (See title list.) These are works of major

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ance to historical studies—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. Over the next few years, the History E-Book Project plans to add approximately 250 books annually to the collection, as well as the balance of 85 new electronic titles that have the potential to use web-based technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. These history e-books are accessible to students and scholars through subscribing libraries and their learned societies.

ACLS is collaborating in this initiative with eight Learned Societies and a select group of University Presses to assist scholars in the electronic publishing of high-quality works in history, to explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies, and to help assure the continued viability of the history writing in today's changing publishing environment.

This project of the American Council of Learned Societies was funded in June 1999 by a $3-million, five-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

The History E-Book Project has eight major goals:

1) Encourage historians to plan and write e-books.

2) Encourage scholarly presses to experiment with, to consider the issues involved in, and to develop in-house expertise for, electronic publishing.

3) Streamline production and reduce costs.

4) Develop infrastructure for archiving scholarly texts for the long term.

5) Work with others to ensure that the commercialization of intellectual materials does not hinder the exercise of scholarly communication and fair use.

6) Work closely with scholarly journals and learned societies to ensure that history e-books are properly reviewed and promoted.

7) Encourage libraries to purchase and make widely available historical works of high quality within their emerging e-collections.

8) Actively encourage the acceptance of e-books within the historical profession for the purposes of hiring, tenure, promotion, and related professional concerns.

In the development of this series, scholars, the ACLS, learned societies, and presses are greatly increasing their technical, economic, and organizational knowledge and experience in electronic publishing. Further, as both a source of, and a clearinghouse for, information about developments in electronic publishing aimed at scholarly readers and users, the History E-Book Project draws on the experience of those participating in this project, as well as other organizations that have undertaken the electronic publication of books. These information resources will assist all persons interested in developing electronic books. They are also proving especially helpful to the small scholarly presses and societies that might lack the resources necessary for such experimentation.

Site Updates

Each section of the ACLS History E-Book Project site will be updated with new material on a regular schedule. New titles will be added periodically. Links, resources, and the schedule of publication will be updated regularly. Users who would like to receive information about new content may join the HEB Project mailing list, sending a "site updates" message from the e-mail address at which they would like to receive these updates. The Project will not use e-mail addresses for any purpose other than to send updates, nor will we provide them to any other organization.