Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program
Stanford University Press is redefining the world of traditional academic publishing through an innovative publishing program.
The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review academic research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for the program, launched last year with the help of a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, came out of press director Alan Harvey’s desire to “break the box of publishing.”
“I wanted to push against all of the boundaries,” said Harvey, who has overseen several digital initiatives in his 15 years at the press. “We were already doing innovative online work and planned to do more.” . . .