Humanist scholars continue to live by the “publish or perish” rule, which defines the monograph as the gold standard for tenure. Those working on languages and literatures other than English face a double jeopardy, as the market for their books shrinks and many presses cut back on publishing specialized titles.
Now, authors writing on German topics are getting a fresh channel for their scholarship through a new publishing venture at Cornell University that aspires to provide a more stable and sustainable forum for their work. A $50,000 three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help fund the endeavor.
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought — a new English-language book series covering the literature, culture, criticism and intellectual history of the German-speaking world — will be published in electronic format and in short print runs backed up by trade-quality bound books produced on a print-on-demand basis. The innovative cross-campus model involves extensive collaboration between Cornell University Library, Cornell University Press and Cornell faculty in the Departments of German Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Music and Philosophy. The full text of many of the Signale books will be available online for free.
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