New Report: “Monograph Output of American University Presses, 2009-2013”

From a Scholarly Kitchen Blog Post by Joe Esposito:

With my colleague Karen Barch and the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, I have been working on a project to determine how many books university presses publish, and in particular, how many of these could be termed original monographs in the humanities. The full report is available below as a PDF and also on Scribd. The text of this blog post is a slightly edited version of the report’s Introduction.
For the quantitative aspect of the study, I refer you to the full report.
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The reporting presses published a total of 58,555 books over the five-year period, for an average of 11,711 books per year. The number of these books that were described as primary (that is, original) monographs was 14,619 for an average of 2,924 per year. And the number that was described as primary monographs in the humanities was 10,689, an average of 2,138 per year.

Direct to Full Text Report
Monograph Output of American University Presses, 2009-2013
Prepared by Joe Esposito and Karen Barch
48 pages; PDF.

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