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Description
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Gutenberg-e is a
prize competition for the best history dissertations in
fields where the traditional monograph has now become
endangered. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, the AHA will award six prizes a year for
a period of three years. Each prize will consist of a
$20,000 fellowship to be used by the author for converting
the dissertation into an electronic monograph of the highest
quality. All of the prizewinning monographs will be
published by Columbia University Press, which will develop
the program into a series that will create a model for
online publication in history. It is expected also that the
Gutenberg-e project will be coordinated with the
HistorE project launched by the American Council of Learned
Societies to electronically publish important monographs in
history.
The program is not intended
simply to reward excellence in scholarship, but to set a
high standard for electronic publishing. By legitimizing
electronic publishing, the AHA hopes to change attitudes of
academics toward e-books. By making the most of the new
media, the program may also contribute to a new conception
of the book itself as a vehicle of knowledge. Indeed, the
transformation of the prize-winning dissertations into
digitized multimedia presentations will pioneer an entirely
new kind of scholarly publication that will enable authors
to provide, inter alia, hypertextual documentation,
multilayered elaborations of arguments, and active
cross-references.
http://www.theaha.org/prizes/gutenberg/Index.cfm
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Contact
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Robert B. Townsend
Assistant Director,
Publications, Information Systems, and Research
400 A St. SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Phone: 202-544-2422
Fax: 202-544-8307
Email: rtownsend@theaha.org
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