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The
Humanities E-Book Center
The HEB
Center is located at the offices of the ACLS
in New York City.
Humanities E-Book
American
Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, New York 10017-6795
Fax: 212-949-8058
Eileen Gardiner, Director
E-Mail: egardiner@hebook.org
Tel: 212-697-1505, ext. 152
212-838-0641 (direct)
Nina Gielen, Editor for Digital Content and Production
E-Mail: ngielen@hebook.org
Tel: 212-697-1505, ext. 153
646-485-5953 (direct)
Christopher R. Martin, Intern
E-Mail: interncm@hebook.org
Ronald G. Musto, Director
E-Mail: rgmusto@hebook.org
Tel: 212-697-1505, ext. 152
212-838-0641 (direct)
Linda A. Zerella, Title Development Editor
E-Mail: lzerella@hebook.org
Tel: 212-697-1505, ext. 148
646-485-5948 (direct)
Rosanne C. Zipprich, Intern
E-Mail: internrz@hebook.org
Members of the center staff keep abreast of recent developments
and trends in electronic publishing in order to insure that the
Project as a whole takes advantage of the most efficient and
up-to-date authoring, editing, production, and distribution technologies
as they become available and cost-effective. With the Scholarly
Publishing Office at the University of Michigan (SPO) it is creating e-book standards and style guidelines for both authors and participating presses. This technical and style information is made available through this project support web site and through direct consultations with the Directors and staff
at the HEB Center.
Once the electronic manuscript has been completed according to
the standards of HEB, the electronic files
that have been prepared and tagged by the participating University Presses are then transmitted to the HEB Center. Here they are stored on a server while the staff at the HEB Center reviews the electronic files carefully to make sure all elements are complete and that all tagging and other coding has been done correctly and according to HEB's standards. With the approval of the sponsoring press, the center then submits the electronic titles to SPO for publication.
The HEB
Center also gathers all physical copies of titles for digitization, searches for out-of-print and rare copies, and arranges with libraries for special scanning of rare copies. It manages rights issues, including contracts, acquisitions, and print copy review, before books
are sent to SPO for processing.
The HEB
Center has also coordinated and launched a print-on-demand (POD) series including nearly 300 titles. These are available in a wide variety of formats through either SPO or Lightning Source.
The HEB
Center manages library subscription contracts, tracks usage statistics, provides support for subscribers, information to potential subscribers, and royalty
payments to publishers and other copyright holders. It also provides meeting facilities for author conferences and HEB presentations, and advises both ACLS and its constituent learned societies on issues and trends in scholarly communication.
HEB01.08
rev. 2/14/07
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