Grant possibilities for the Erie Canal Lab

1. Humanities NY offers a Public Scholars program. These are speakers that will come and give a 90 minute talk on a topic. An institution can apply for 2 a year. http://humanitiesny.org/our-work/programs/scholars-catalog/ 

SUNY Brockport eBook step-by-step directions

I am excited to work with you to get your book on to the SUNY Brockport eBooks platform. Let me take a minute to walk you through the process.

1.       If you’ve never browsed our platform, here is the URL: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sunybeb/

2.       Our first step is to ascertain that there aren’t any copyright issues. Pam O’Sullivan is the campus copyright officer. I gave her your flyer and printed out the CreateSpace agreement from Amazon.  The copyright page in your book (available from the Look Inside! Feature is a little confusing to me. The copyright is held by CreateSpace with All rights reserved by the authors. Then there is a statement saying “No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system…without written permission from the Publisher.” I’m not sure what this means, but Pam is going to look into it.

3.       Next, I would refer you to our Policy page, http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sunybeb/FinalSUNYBrockporteBooks.pdf, which includes information that we ask you to include in a short proposal that you can email to me.

4.       Once we get the proposal and sample chapters, I’ll send it to the chair of the Advisory Board – who will ask 2 faculty to review it. It won’t be a peer review process, per se – no one will ask for any changes. They are only reviewing to make sure it meets the general criteria spelled out in the policy document.

5.       Once all the approvals (copyright and criteria) have come in, the remainder of the process (putting it on the platform) will happen fairly quickly.

I hope this thoroughly explains the process, but feel free to ask any questions you might have. Your next step would be to provide me with a proposal, including the sample chapters, and we will move on from there.