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T
he two book series launched at the Granada Joint Sessions in 2005, ECPR Classics and ECPR Monographs, were intended to fill important gaps in academic publishing markets (Figures 1 and 2). However, they also represent a departure from previous ECPR-sponsored series in that both are produced at the ECPR Central Services and published under the imprint of the ECPR Press. Contemporary technology makes it possible to publish books of a high professional quality on a much smaller scale than in the past, and the ECPR Press has taken full advantage of this. Our aim is to produce a ‘quality product’ but at a reasonable price, and
the latter means that all our books have to be paperbacks and not hardbacks. Three Classics and three Monographs were published in our launch year, and it is our aim to publish annually two or three books in each series.
ECPR CLASSICS The Classics series brings back into publication important works of political science and international relations that are out of print – in a number of cases they have long been unavailable to readers, except in libraries. The criteria for selection for the series is that a work must not only have made a major contribution
Figure 1 The first three authors of the ECPR Monographs series at the Granada Joint Sessions, left to right: Paul Magnette, Mercedes Mateo Diaz and Kevin Casas-Zamora.
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european political science: 5 2006 (220 – 228) & 2006 European Consortium for Political Research. 1680-4333/06 $30 www.palgrave-journals.com/eps
Figure 2 Giovanni Sartori helps launch the ECPR Press and the reprint of his Classic Parties and Party Systems at the Granada Joint Sessions.
to a sub-field of the discipline at the time that it was first published, but it must also be capable of making a significant contribution to academic debates today. We always invite the authors (or, in the case of deceased authors, a friend or close colleague) to write a new introduction to the book. The appropriate length for these introductions varies, of course, but in no case can it be more than 10,000 words. Our policy is to ask colleagues at ECPRaffiliated institutions to make suggestions for the Classics series, and quite a number have kindly done so. We hope more will contact us in the future. However, we are always in danger of disappointing those who have made excellent suggestions, because we often face quite serious
problems in obtaining permission to republish from those persons who hold the copyright to a book. This is especially evident with edited collections of essays, where typically the author of each essay in the volume holds the copyright for his or her own essay. Tracking down all the authors many years after the work was published involves far more effort than the resources at the Press’s disposal can sustain, particularly in cases where an author has died and the executors of their estates would have to be contacted. However, even single-authored monographs can be problematic, especially when the original publishing firm has been taken over by another one, and
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