Slavica Publishers: Fifty Years of Service to the Slavic Field. (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fowler, George
• Is Part Of: Slavic & East European information resources. Volume 17:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 310
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Charles Gribble -- history -- Indiana University -- literary translation -- scholarly publishing -- Slavica Publishers -- Three String Books; Publishers and publishing -- Europe, Eastern -- Periodicals; Publishers and publishing -- Slavic countries -- Periodicals; Information resources -- Europe, Eastern -- Periodicals; Information resources -- Slavic countries -- Periodicals; Library science -- Periodicals; 026.947
• DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2016.1246325
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1522-8886

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Slavica Publishers has played an important role in the fields of Slavic languages and literatures and Slavic area studies for 50 years. This article provides a brief history of the publishing house, focusing on key book and journal publications; the transition in 1997 from closely held privately owned corporation to not-for-profit status as a unit of Indiana University; evolution from predominately self-produced authors' CRC to professionally typeset and edited volumes; and plans to keep Slavica relevant in the future. It is implicit that Slavica might serve as a model for other struggling small academic presses in this time of rapid change and chaos in scholarly publishing.