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Aperio, the University of Virginia’s open access press, and the Music Library Association are pleased to announce a joint publication: The Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels. This collection of 348 songs with modern and traditional harmonization is available for all to use and is free of copyright restrictions. The original songs and the anthology itself are in the public domain, which allows the material to be studied, performed, adapted, and shared without constraint.
By making this anthology open access we foresee broad use of the resource both inside and outside of educational settings. The PDSA gives teachers and students free and easy access to hundreds of popular, folk, and jazz songs in a single publication. The anthology also solves a problem for performers by sharing songs that can be played confidently without violating copyright. Contributions by Berger and Israels have been gifted to the public domain as well, which will help to both preserve and give new life to the rich legacy of these songs—many of which are at risk of being forgotten or overlooked.
Bob Schwartz, a lawyer who also leads his own quartet, recognized the potential for this publication to support musicians and live music after noticing an uptick in copyright enforcement and royalty collections in DC area venues. Determined to play more songs in the public domain himself, Schwartz said, “I realized I knew the perfect people in music and in law to create and authenticate an anthology of public domain popular music.” Schwartz enlisted Berger and Israels, nationally recognized jazz arrangers and band leaders, to curate and write the PDSA.
Some features and benefits of the PDSA include:
Download the PDSA for free at http://aperio.press or directly at https://doi.org/10.32881/book2
This publication is a Music Library Association Open Edition. It was made possible by the tireless direction of MLA Open Access Editor Kathleen DeLaurenti, of The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, with support from Dave Ghamandi, Nina Schwartz, and Brandon Butler. A full list of libraries that offered support is included in the anthology. A print copy of the PDSA will be available at many of these supporting institutions.
About the Authors
Jazz composer, arranger, and conductor David Berger is recognized internationally as a leading authority on the music of Duke Ellington and the Swing Era. Conductor and arranger for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from its inception in 1988 through 1994, Berger has transcribed over 750 full scores of classic recordings, including more than 500 works by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn in addition to hundreds of other classic jazz recordings.
Chuck Israels is a composer/arranger/bassist who has worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J.J. Johnson, John Coltrane, and many others. He is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio from 1961 through 1966 and for his pioneering accomplishments in Jazz Repertory as Director of the National Jazz Ensemble from 1973 to 1981.
The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades.
Aperio, a joint venture of the University of Virginia Library and the University of Virginia Press, draws upon the strengths of the University to increase open access to knowledge for a global audience in a variety of formats—journals, monographs, open educational resources, and more.
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It has been a while since we offered an update. Here's a brief recap of our growth in the past year and some current happenings.
JOURNALS
The Journal of Modern Philosophy published eleven articles in 2019, its full year of publishing. You can access the 2019 volume here.
In 2019, JMPhil was accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals, which reflects the journal’s high-quality and importance to the field of philosophy. We are pleased as a relatively new OA publisher to see our first journal get into DOAJ. The journal is also indexed by PhilPapers.
We also transferred Summer Academe to Aperio last year, which was our first transfer. We gave the journal a new URL (www.summeracademe.org) and are happy to keep it open access. The journal is edited by Rachel N. Miller, from the UVA Provost’s office. You can submit manuscripts to the journal at https://summeracademe.org/submit/start/
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION
We are near completion of our first open educational resource—The Public Domain Song Anthology. The PDSA, by David Berger and Chuck Israels, will be a collection of 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance. This open educational resource was curated by two nationally recognized jazz arrangers and band leaders and consists of songs in the US public domain. This anthology will be the first of its kind and will be free for students and performers to use, adapt, remix, and share. The songs, many of which are at risk of being forgotten, will be free of copyright restrictions and will be available in multiple formats to promote greater usage and dissemination.
To get notified when the PDSA is released, join our mailing list at http://eepurl.com/dhJ1S1
GET IN TOUCH
We have an open call for proposals to start or transfer journals. You can learn more about our journal services and proposal information at https://aperio.press/site/publish/
We are also interested in receiving expressions of interest from anyone interested in publishing open teaching and learning materials, which can include open textbooks or student capstone projects.
E-mail us at publish@virginia.edu
Follow us on Twitter @AperioUVA
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We at Aperio are saddened by the sudden loss of one of our leaders, Mark Saunders. Please find a modified version of a statement made by the UVA Press below.
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It is with deep sadness that we share the announcement of the passing of Mark Saunders, Director of the University of Virginia Press. Mark died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on May 19. He was 52.
Many of you have gotten to know Mark over the years, a consummate publishing professional and a beloved friend and mentor to many. A book lover and salesman from the start, Mark launched his career at Politics & Prose Bookstore, buying small and university frontlist and backlist and arranging reading series and author events. He then moved on to Columbia University Press, where he served as East Coast Sales Representative and then National Sales Manager. In 1995 he joined the marketing department at UVA Press, where he would become Director of Marketing and Sales and, in 2013, Press Director, supervising a staff of twenty and leading strategic planning, acquisitions, editorial, production, marketing, fiscal, and fundraising activities of the press. Among his many notable achievements at UVA Press was his central role in establishing its Rotunda electronic imprint, which put the Press at the forefront of innovation in digital scholarship. A dedicated leader within the Association of University Presses, Mark was a pillar within the publishing community. Among Mark’s most recent accomplishments was collaborating, on the behalf of the Press, with the UVA Library on Aperio, an initiative to bring open-access content to scholars and students.
Mark was also an accomplished author. His novel, Ministers of Fire, was published in 2012 by Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press. The book received widespread acclaim, including a review in the Wall Street Journal that said, “Ministers of Fire deserves a place next to the works of such masters as Charles McCarry and Robert Stone.”
Mark was a true renaissance man, and outside of work his passions included not only writing but traveling, carpentry, the outdoors, boating at his house in Maine, reading, the arts, politics, taking time in his garden, playing with his dogs and looking after his cats and tortoise, and all things sports, including coaching his three children, who meant the world to him. At UVA Press, we will remember him as a man of great intelligence and wit, always ready to make us laugh while leading us to the right decision. Most important, he was a devoted family man and a great friend.
We at the Library and Press are both saddened and shocked by Mark’s unexpected passing; we know these feelings will be shared by many people throughout the publishing world. His great expertise and unique and remarkable character will be profoundly missed and inspire us always.
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Aperio is the new home of the peer-reviewed journal, Summer Academe.
Summer Academe provides university and college administrators, deans and directors of summer sessions, and faculty involved in teaching and programming in summer sessions with a source of current research and best practices in summer session administration and pedagogy. In May 2019, the journal moved to Aperio, the University of Virginia’s open access press. It was hosted from 2013-2019 at the University of Manitoba and began as a print publication in 1997.
Summer Academe, an open access journal, is committed to being freely and immediately available to summer session professionals and readers everywhere. The journal is sponsored by the North American Association of Summer Sessions and the Association of University Summer Sessions. The editorial board represents both professional organizations, and Rachel Nottingham Miller serves as the academic editor.
Summer Academe's newest articles can be found at its new URL: www.summeracademe.org
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Aperio, a joint venture of the University of Virginia Library and the University of Virginia Press, draws upon the strengths of the University to increase open access to knowledge for a global audience in a variety of formats—including journals, monographs, conferences, and open educational resources.
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Aperio is pleased to announce the launch of our first publication, the Journal of Modern Philosophy.
JMPhil is now accepting submissions and will publish papers on the history of philosophy from the 16th century through the 18th century up to, but not including, Kant. This new and fully open access journal is free of charges for both authors and readers. The founding editors are Antonia LoLordo, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, and Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
Here is the announcement from the editors and the editorial board:
The Journal of Modern Philosophy is now soliciting submissions in the history of philosophy from the 16th century to the 18th century up to, but not including, Kant. It is the goal of this journal to meet a clear need for a specialist journal in the history of modern philosophy. We welcome all papers that fall within the general category of modern philosophy, but we are especially eager to receive papers on under-represented figures and topics. We plan to expand to Kant and the nineteenth century in the future, and will at present consider submissions on underrepresented topics and authors in the nineteenth century. We also welcome reviewers who wish to be enrolled with the journal.
JMPhil is Open Access, authors will maintain their copyright, and submissions will be published on a rolling basis. All submissions will be double anonymously refereed, with a target turnaround time of ten weeks.
For more information on the journal and how to submit, please go to: http://www.jmphil.org/
Yours,
Antonia LoLordo (UVa) & Aaron Garrett (BU) Co-Editors
Margaret Atherton (UWM), Chair of the Editorial Board
Editorial Board: Lili Alanen, Martha Bolton, Dan Garber, Don Garrett, Susan James, Laurent Jaffro, Christia Mercer, Steven Nadler
JMPhil is supported by the Departments of Philosophy at UVA and BU as well as BU’s Center for the Humanities.
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Aperio, a joint venture of the University of Virginia Library and the University of Virginia Press, draws upon the strengths of the University to increase open access to knowledge for a global audience in a variety of formats—including journals, monographs, conferences, and open educational resources.
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Today is an exciting day at the University of Virginia. We’re excited to launch Aperio, a new open access press and collaboration between the UVA Library and UVA Press. This moment represents the beginning of a new chapter for our University and a new spin on an old mission. We’re going to “advance, preserve, and disseminate knowledge” by making it open access (and thereby removing price and permission barriers) for a global audience in a variety of formats.
We are leading with Aperio Journals, which is operated by the UVA Library, and will begin publishing discipline-leading, high-quality, peer reviewed journals this year. Aperio’s portfolio will also include open educational resources, open monographs, conferences, and other forms of research and scholarship.
This is an exciting time to be a scholarly publisher and the number of new open access presses attests to that. After careful consideration, we decided to join the Ubiquity Partner Network because of the level of service and features that Ubiquity Press allows us to offer to our authors, editors, reviewers, and readers.
We encourage you to learn more about Aperio and our goals. Follow us on Twitter (@AperioUVA) and join our mailing list to stay in touch.
Finally, we’d like to thank everyone who lent advice and support or made contributions to Aperio as the service was developed. We’re looking forward to a bright future.