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KnightScholar Services: Milne Library Publishing

Interested in Publishing With Us?

Book cover photo of a young Bob Dylan with a harmonica. Text: Bob Dylan's Career as a Blakean Visionary and Romantic.The mission of Milne Library Publishing is to increase the visibility, reach, and impact of Geneseo’s research and scholarship by providing open access to information, ideas, and works of imagination, and to reduce the cost of higher education in NYS by publishing SUNY-authored open textbooks.

Milne Library Publishing supports a range of publications and projects which fall into one or more of the following categories:

  • authored or spearheaded by a member of the SUNY Geneseo community
  • of significance to the Genesee Valley Region
  • utilizes Milne library’s archives & special collections
  • educational texts by SUNY faculty

Milne Library Publishing projects are reviewed by an editorial team made up of SUNY Geneseo faculty and staff. Proposal documents can be found in KnightScholar: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/library-research/19/.

There are several imprints we publish under:

In addition, we support the design, production, and archiving of institutional and course-specific publications such as exhibit catalogues and reports.

All texts are published open access as a PDF or in Pressbooks, and the author is given the choice of Creative Commons licenses. If requested, the text can also be made available as a paperback Print on Demand (POD) title.

Contact Allison Brown, Digital Publishing Services Manager, to find out more: browna@geneseo.edu

Journals: The Proceedings of Great Day

The Proceedings of Great Day 2022

Established in 2009, 
The Proceedings of Great Day journal compiles and publishes promising student work presented at SUNY Geneseo's GREAT Day symposium.

The projects, presentations, and research included here represent the academic rigor, multidisciplinary study, and unique creativity of the students taking part in the annual SUNY Geneseo GREAT Day symposium.

Journals: Gandy Dancer

Gandy Dancer - SUNY Geneseo Literary Magazine cover photo collage

Gandy Dancer is a SUNY-wide literary magazine available online and in print publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Edited by a rotating staff of students at SUNY Geneseo enrolled in ENGL460, Gandy Dancer is published twice yearly.

Imprints

Geneseo Authors 

Debuted in the fall of 2013, Geneseo Authors highlights the scholarship and creativity of SUNY Geneseo faculty and alumni.

Milne Open Textbooks

Originally launched as Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library spearheads the publication of SUNY-wide open textbooks. All titles are authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff and are available free online. These publications are available in .pdf, EPUB, and online/HTML format. Over 1 million Milne Open Textbooks have been downloaded worldwide, and have been incorporated into traditional classes, online classes, and MOOCs.

Genesee Valley Historical Reprints 

This series highlights rare and locally significant titles in our Genesee Valley collection. These reprints of public domain titles offer the historical perspective of the Genesee Valley region through many genres and are available free online and through Amazon.

Publishing Tools

Milne Library Publishing also provides SUNY Geneseo faculty, students, and staff access to the publishing platform, Pressbooks. This online publishing software built on WordPress is perfect for adapting open texts, collaborative student projects, and annotating public domain texts.

To request access, fill out our Pressbooks Account Request form, or contact Allison Brown for more information: browna@geneseo.edu.