Lorena Kanellopoulos. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
Lorena Kanellopoulos tells KATHARINE PIERCE why getting published is no longer the expensive and lengthy process it used to be. Newspapers are undergoing a painful, and very public, reinvention. Around the world, including in Australia, they are struggling to find new business models as readership levels drop and people turn away from physical printed papers and towards their electronic equivalents. But newspapers are not the only businesses running into turbulence on the flight towards the future, because a similar, but much less public, revolution is happening in academic publishing. Where once heavy and wasteful printing presses made information dissemination a long and expensive process, these days it's online publishing that's spreading the academic word. Established in 2003, ANU E Press was the conception of former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Malcolm Gillies, former ANU University Librarian Colin Steele, former Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Professor James Fox and Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies) Professor Robin Stanton. They saw that the University was in need of a new method of distributing ANU scholarship and recommended a press be established since the previous one had ceased in 1984.
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