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42-544: Development began in late 2001 under the auspices of the University of Chicago Press , with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation . As of mid 2015, BiblioVault provided long-term secure storage for more than 40,000 digital book files from 110 publishers, and offered scanning, printing, transfer, conversion, file distribution, print on demand and ebook order fulfillment services to its members. BiblioVault hosts

84-678: A link to that month's free, downloadable e-book selection. University of Chicago Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers. The Journals Division of the University of Chicago Press publishes and distributes influential scholarly publications on behalf of learned and professional societies and associations, foundations, museums, and other not-for-profit organizations. As of 2016, it publishes 81 titles in

126-742: A new master plan for the Midway Plaisance done by OLIN , a landscape architecture firm, was unveiled by the University of Chicago and the Chicago Park District . The proximity of the Midway to the university gave the school's early football teams, the Maroons, a second nickname, " Monsters of the Midway ", a name later applied to the Chicago Bears when the University of Chicago dropped its football program. The program has since been reinstated, and

168-467: A park setting, under the renewed plans of Frederick Law Olmsted . Over the ensuing decades, the Midway gradually came to be encompassed by the University of Chicago , which expanded in 1926 to be located on either side of it. Today the Midway sits between the original main campus to the north and the professional graduate schools the University of Chicago Law School , the Harris School of Public Policy ,

210-411: A pioneer in making scholarly and scientific journals available in electronic form in conjunction with their print editions. Electronic publishing efforts were launched in 1995; by 2004, all the journals published by the University of Chicago Press were available online. In 2013, all new journal issues were also made available to subscribers in e-book format. The Distribution Services Division provides

252-576: A public web site, bibliovault.org , with information about each title, including descriptions, cover thumbnails, tables of contents, excerpts, and reviews. The site links to member press shopping carts, for immediate online purchase of the books listed. Accessibility offices can request files for students with disabilities from these pages as well. Member presses visit BiblioVault's publishers' site, to submit and retrieve their files, edit metadata about their titles, and order deliveries of files and metadata to e-retailers, search sites, and printers. BiblioVault

294-479: A range of specialized services. These include the production of excerpts or complete ebooks in PDF, html, or epub formats, as well as custom file alteration and delivery services to meet the specific needs of publishers and presses. The company also offers conversion from PDF to reflowable formats, such as epub and html, which can make e-books more easily readable on a range of devices. Another unique offering from BiblioVault

336-460: A wide range of academic disciplines including the biological and medical sciences, education, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. All are peer-reviewed journals of original scholarship, with readerships that include scholars, scientists, and medical practitioners as well as interested, educated laypeople. Since 1974, the press has published the prestigious humanities journal Critical Inquiry . The Journals Division has been

378-577: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago , a private research university in Chicago, Illinois . It is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It publishes a wide range of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style , numerous academic journals, and advanced monographs in

420-514: Is also associated with a digital printing center within the Chicago Distribution Center for short-run printing (and automated physical warehouse restocking) of titles stored in the repository. Besides making more than file deliveries to e-retailers, such as Amazon Kindle , Barnes & Noble 's Nook , Apple Books , Google Play , etc., BiblioVault also fulfills ebooks directly using Adobe Digital Editions for member presses, via

462-607: Is recognized as a leading distributor of scholarly works, with over 100 client presses. The Books Division of the University of Chicago Press has been publishing books for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892 and has published over 11,000 books since its founding. The Books Division has more than 6,000 books in print, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style (1906); The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), by Thomas Kuhn ; A River Runs Through It (1976), by Norman Maclean ; and The Road to Serfdom (1944), by F. A. Hayek . In July 2009,

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504-520: Is the delivery of protected ebooks as complimentary copies for text exam or review purposes. This service allows educators to provide students with electronic copies of books for study and review, while ensuring that the books are protected against unauthorized distribution. BiblioVault also provides fulfillment of electronic books for press shopping carts, making it easy for publishers and presses to sell their titles directly to readers. This article relating to library science or information science

546-578: Is the preparation and delivery of files to various marketing services and digital book vendors. This includes platforms such as Google Preview, Amazon Search Inside the Book, and Barnes & Noble's See Inside, as well as popular e-book retailers like Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Apple iBooks. By preparing and delivering the necessary files, BiblioVault helps publishers and presses make their titles more easily discoverable and accessible to readers. In addition to its core services, BiblioVault also offers

588-795: The Association of American Publishers' Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing , awarded to the person whose "creativity and leadership have left a lasting mark on American publishing." Paula Barker Duffy served as director of the press from 2000 to 2007. Under her administration, the press expanded its distribution operations and created the Chicago Digital Distribution Center and BiblioVault . Editorial depth in reference and regional books increased with titles such as The Encyclopedia of Chicago , Timothy J. Gilfoyle's Millennium Park , and new editions of The Chicago Manual of Style ,

630-608: The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice , and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies , as well as, the University of Chicago Press to the south. Later designers and artists, including Lorado Taft , and Eero Saarinen added or sought to add their vision to the Midway. A statue of the father of modern taxonomy , Carl Linnaeus , and an equestrian statue by sculptor Albin Polasek of

672-515: The Hyde Park community area to the north from the Woodlawn community area to the south. Near Lake Michigan , the Midway is about 6 miles (10 km) south of the downtown " Loop ". The University of Chicago was founded just north of the park, and university buildings now front the Midway to the south, as well. Intended as part of the Chicago boulevard system , the park came to prominence when

714-606: The Mellon Foundation , the Chicago Digital Distribution Center (CDDC) has been offering digital printing services and the BiblioVault digital repository services to book publishers. In 2009, the CDC enabled the sales of electronic books directly to individuals and provided digital delivery services for the University of Michigan Press among others. The Chicago Distribution Center has also partnered with an additional 15 presses, including

756-618: The Smithsonian Institution . In the years after the Exposition closed, " midway " came to be used in the United States to signify the area for amusements at a county or state fair , circus , or amusement park . The Midway Plaisance led visitors from the Midway Plaisance to the Women's Building and then to the White City. Following the Exposition, the Midway Plaisance was returned to

798-1083: The Turabian Manual , and The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary. The press also launched an electronic reference work, The Chicago Manual of Style Online. In 2014, the press received The International Academic and Professional Publisher Award for excellence at the London Book Fair . Garrett P. Kiely became the 15th director of the University of Chicago Press on September 1, 2007. He heads one of academic publishing's largest operations, employing more than 300 people across three divisions—books, journals, and distribution—and publishing 81 journal titles and approximately 280 new books and 70 paperback reprints each year. The press publishes over 50 new trade titles per year, across many subject areas. It also publishes regional titles, such as The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice Reiff; The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of

840-537: The University of Missouri Press , West Virginia University Press , and publications of the Getty Foundation . Midway Plaisance The Midway Plaisance , known locally as the Midway , is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois . It is one mile long by 220 yards wide and extends along 59th and 60th streets, joining Washington Park at its west end and Jackson Park at its east end. It divides

882-634: The belly dance in the "Street in Cairo" amusement; it was the most popular, with 2.25 million admissions. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. 's original Ferris Wheel carried over 1.5 million passengers. The Midway's money-making concessions and sideshows made over $ 4 million in 1893 dollars, and it was the more memorable portion of the Exposition for many visitors. The Midway also featured more scholarly exhibits which were overseen by Frederic Ward Putnam , head of Harvard University ’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology , and ethnologist Otis Tufton Mason of

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924-512: The Chicago Distribution Center's online shopping cart and several other independent press shopping carts. BiblioVault offers a range of services to book publishers and presses. These services include scanning older titles to create high-quality electronic files, short-run digital printing, and evaluation and enhancement of PDFs to ensure they are suitable for printing and conversion to other formats. One of BiblioVault's key services

966-947: The Jazz Age (2008) by Neil Harris ; One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko (1999), a collection of columns by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Mike Royko of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune ; and many other books about the art, architecture, and nature of Chicago and the Midwest . The press has recently expanded its digital offerings to include most newly published books as well as key backlist titles. In 2013, Chicago Journals began offering e-book editions of each new issue of each journal, for use on e-reader devices such as smartphones , iPad , and Amazon Kindle . The contents of The Chicago Manual of Style are available online to paid subscribers. The Chicago Distribution Center

1008-508: The Knight of Blanik, a legendary Czech savior who emerges from Blaník mountain in his nation's hour of need, grace the Midway. It has remained essentially a green area, a public resource subject to much speculation, and various periodic plans of redevelopment. The sunken panels, home now to soccer players and ice skating and sports facility, the cross-street "bridges", and the east–west lines of trees, pay homage to Olmsted's vision. In 1999,

1050-533: The Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum . The book sold five copies during its first two years, but by 1900, the University of Chicago Press had published 127 books and pamphlets and 11 scholarly journals, including the current Journal of Political Economy , Journal of Near Eastern Studies , and American Journal of Sociology . For its first three years, the press was an entity discrete from

1092-480: The Midway was laid-out to host popular amusements at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, which hosted the world's first Ferris Wheel, later lending its name, " midway ", to areas at county and state fairs and amusement parks with sideshows . The park is also featured as one of the main settings in the book The Devil in the White City written by Erik Larson. Landscaped with long vistas and avenues of trees at

1134-504: The University of Chicago Press's customer service, warehousing, and related services. The Chicago Distribution Center (CDC) began providing distribution services in 1991, when the University of Tennessee Press became its first client. Currently the CDC serves nearly 100 publishers including Northwestern University Press , Stanford University Press , Temple University Press , University of Iowa Press , University of Minnesota Press , and many others. Since 2001, with development funding from

1176-409: The University of Chicago Press. He committed time and resources to lengthening the backlist, becoming known for assuming ambitious scholarly projects, among the largest of which was The Lisle Letters — a vast collection of 16th-century correspondence by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle , a wealth of information about every aspect of 16th-century life. As the press's scholarly volume expanded,

1218-520: The academic fields. The press is located just south of the Midway Plaisance on the University of Chicago campus. One of its quasi-independent projects is the BiblioVault , a digital repository for scholarly books. The University of Chicago Press was founded in 1890, making it one of the oldest continuously operating university presses in the United States. Its first published book was Robert F. Harper's Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to

1260-609: The funds to cover expenditures that the plans would have entailed, and the South Park area remained largely in its natural swampy state. The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was held in the underdeveloped parts of the South Park. The worldwide celebration of Columbus ' transfer of "the torch of civilization to the New World" in 1492 was one of the most successful and influential of world's fairs . It covered over 600 acres (2.4 km ) and attracted exhibitors and visitors from all over

1302-562: The press also advanced as a trade publisher. In 1992, Norman Maclean 's books A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire were national best sellers, and A River Runs Through It was made into a film directed by and starring Robert Redford . In 1982, Philipson was the first director of an academic press to win the Publisher Citation , one of PEN's most prestigious awards. Shortly before he retired in June 2000, Philipson received

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1344-554: The press announced the Chicago Digital Editions program, which made many of the press's titles available in e-book form for sale to individuals. As of August 2016, more than 3,500 titles are available in this format. In August 2010, the press published the 16th Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style simultaneously in print and online editions. The Books Division offers a Free E-book Of The Month program, through which site visitors may provide their e-mail address and receive

1386-716: The press first published paperback-bound books (including the Phoenix Books series) under its imprint. Of the press's best-known books, most date from the 1950s, including translations of the Complete Greek Tragedies and Richmond Lattimore's The Iliad of Homer . That decade also saw the first edition of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , which has since been used by students of Biblical Greek worldwide. In 1966, Morris Philipson began his 34-year tenure as director of

1428-617: The press was an established, leading academic publisher. Leading books of that era include Edgar J. Goodspeed's The New Testament: An American Translation (the press's first nationally successful title) and its successor, Goodspeed and J. M. Povis Smith's The Complete Bible: An American Translation ; Sir William Alexander Craigie's A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles , published in four volumes in 1943; John Manly and Edith Rickert's The Canterbury Tales , published in 1940; and Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations . In 1956,

1470-427: The start of the 20th century, the Midway in part followed the vision of its designer Frederick Law Olmsted , one of the creators of New York City 's Central Park , but without his proposed feature of a Venetian canal down the Midway's center linking the lagoon systems of Jackson and Washington parks. Instead, the Midway is landscaped with a fosse , lawn covered depression, where the canal would have been, although in

1512-492: The state of the university and its faculty's research, the Decennial Publications was a radical reorganization of the press. This allowed the press, by 1905, to begin publishing books by scholars not of the University of Chicago. A manuscript editing and proofreading department was added to the existing staff of printers and typesetters, leading, in 1906, to the first edition of The Chicago Manual of Style . By 1931,

1554-523: The university; it was operated by the Boston publishing house D. C. Heath in conjunction with the Chicago printer R. R. Donnelley . This arrangement proved unworkable, however, and in 1894, the university officially assumed responsibility for the press. In 1902, as part of the university, the press started working on the Decennial Publications . Composed of articles and monographs by scholars and administrators on

1596-513: The western area, Olmsted, (the park designer) labeled a section “Upper Plaisance.” In the eastern area, he had a “Lagoon Plaisance.” Connecting the two was a “Midway Plaisance.” In other words, Midway Plaisance wasn’t a name. It was a description. The Midway Plaisance began as a vision in the 1850s of Paul Cornell , a land developer, to turn an undeveloped stretch of infertile land south of Chicago into an urban lakeside retreat for middle- and upper-class residents seeking to escape city life. The area

1638-619: The winter parts of the grounds are turned over for ice skating . The Midway Plaisance has a variety of different elements for visitors to explore, including lakes, trails, bridges, and fields. Today, the park hosts many different programs, including: concerts, ice skating lessons, movie nights, and many other events. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water". In

1680-430: The world. For the Exposition, the mile-long Midway Plaisance, running from the eastern edge of Washington Park on Cottage Grove Avenue to the western edge of Jackson Park on Stony Island Avenue , was turned over to the theatrical entrepreneur Sol Bloom , a protégé of Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Sr. It became a grand mix of fakes, hokum , and the genuinely educational and introduced the "hootchy-cootchy" version of

1722-447: Was a lakefront marsh ecosystem . In 1869, Cornell and his South Park Commission were granted the right to set up a complex of parks and boulevards that would include Washington Park to the west, Jackson Park to the east on the lakeshore, and the Midway Plaisance as a system of paths and waterways connecting the two (see Encyclopedia of Chicago Map ). The firm of Olmsted, Vaux, and Co., famous for creating New York City's Central Park ,

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1764-591: Was hired to design the urban oasis. Part of their plan was that the Midway would function as "a magnificent chain of lakes", allowing boaters to travel from the ponds in Washington Park through the lagoons in Jackson Park and into Lake Michigan. The South Park Commission office, where all the detailed plans were stored, was burned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The expense of rebuilding the city eliminated

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