Publishing Digital Scholarship with a University Press

There are numerous efforts underway to bring digital scholarship into the ecosystem of academic publishing. The varied approaches to publishing this new kind of scholarship mirror the diverse array of projects undertaken in the digital humanities and social sciences. To name just a few, presses are offering publishing solutions for iterative monographs, open-access journals, and app-based reference works. Stanford Press offers a publishing process for digital research that establishes a system of accreditation consistent with the rigorous standards of monograph publishing, supporting scholars who are exploring new formats while operating in established evaluation systems. Using case studies from SUP’s digital publishing initiative, I will give an overview of the publication process for digital work, from developmental editing, peer review, production, marketing and promotion, to archiving. I will speak to the different genres of digital projects that our initiative is aimed at and the platforms and web solutions that our authors are working with. Along the way, I will discuss some of the challenges we’ve faced or are still facing as we continue to build this program.