University of Toronto Press
Parent company | University of Toronto |
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Founded | 1901 |
Country of origin | Canada |
Headquarters location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Publication types | Scholarly books and journals |
Official website | utorontopress.com |
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press founded in 1901.[1] Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911.[2]
The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar.[3] Its first scholarly book was a work by a classics professor at University College, Toronto.[3] The press took control of the university bookstore in 1933.[3] It employed a novel typesetting method to print issues of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics, founded in 1949.[4]
Sidney Earle Smith, president of the University of Toronto in the late 1940s and 1950s, instituted a new governance arrangement for the press modelled on the governing structure of the university as a whole (on the standard Canadian university governance model defined by the Flavelle commission). Henceforth, the press's business affairs and editorial decision-making would be governed by separate committees, the latter by academic faculty.[5] A committee composed of Vincent Bladen, George Williams Brown (general editor of the press from 1951[6]), and A. S. P. Woodhouse studied the publishing policies of American university presses to inform the structure of the press's publishing division.[5]
Beginning in 1971, the press printed its books simultaneously on paper and microfiche.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Pound, Richard W., ed. (2005). The Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates (3d ed.). Fitzhenry & Whiteside. p. 337. ISBN 1-55041-171-3. OCLC 52540711.
- ^ Harman 1961, p. 19.
- ^ a b c Jeanneret 1989, p. 22.
- ^ Jeanneret 1989, p. 28.
- ^ a b Jeanneret 1989, p. 31.
- ^ Jeanneret 1989, p. 37.
- ^ Montagnes, Ian (1972). "Scholarly Monographs on Microfiche: The University of Toronto Press as a Case in Point". Microform & Imaging Review. 1 (1). doi:10.1515/mfir.1972.1.1.29. ISSN 0949-5770. S2CID 162232860.
Sources
- Harman, Eleanor, ed. (1961). The University as Publisher. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-1519-9. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1vxmbd1. OCLC 1151834758.
- Jeanneret, Marsh (1989). God and Mammon: Universities as Publishers. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7715-9205-1. OCLC 20525803.
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