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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.