UH Press Upgrades Website

On Thursday, July 7, UH Press launched a new website. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience and hope you will be pleased with the new interface.

Among the major enhancements to the new web storefront are online credit-card authorization, easier navigation by subject categories and publishing partners, and the ability to order books and journals in the same shopping cart.

However, all links to individual book and journal pages on the old site will be broken. We have a lot of broken links to repair. Existing links to our journals homepages will be redirected to the new journals topic pages. Examples of hyperlinks to individual journals and books follow.

Because of differing encryption standards between our old and new e-commerce packages, all of our current customers will have to create new logins on our new site.

Spring Break Closure

The University of Hawai‘i Press is a member of the UH-Mānoa campus Green Days initiative, established to promote sustainability and energy conservation. All Press offices will be closed from 20 March (Sat) through 28 March 2010 (Sun). All offices will reopen on 29 March 2010.

Holiday Season Closure

The University of Hawai‘i Press is a member of the UH-Mānoa campus Green Days initiative, established to promote sustainability and energy conservation. Most Press offices will be closed from 19 December 2009 (Sat), through 3 January 2010 (Sun), with the exception of our business office and warehouse, which will be open for book orders and shipping on 21-23 and 28-30 December (Mon-Wed each week). All offices will reopen on 4 January 2010.

Archives of Asian Art, vol. 59 (2009)

Archives of Asian Art vol. 59 cover

The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article, along with the first paragraph of the introductory essay and a sample image from each of the main articles.

The Historiography of Reuse in South Asia
Alka Patel, 1

Excerpt: “It is little wonder that the historical phenomenon of architectural and sculptural reuse has attracted the attention of scholars investigating many regions and time periods. Continue reading “Archives of Asian Art, vol. 59 (2009)”

Hurdles Facing New Humanities Journals

Abstract: While the barriers to international scholarly communication have never been lower, the hurdles facing any new journal seeking to gain a respectable foothold in academic institutions are rising, not falling. Among the factors most responsible for lowering barriers are the rapid spread of digital connectivity and the ease of using electronic media. Among the latest obstacles to be surmounted are sharp cuts in library budgets; the dispersal of journal identities into individual articles; and the rise of bureaucratic journal ranking systems in the humanities that use arbitrary and hidebound criteria to rate scholarly output.

Read the full article here.

Archives of Asian Art, vol. 58 (2008)

Archives of Asian Art vol. 58 cover
Vol. 58 (2008) of the Archives of Asian Art has just debuted in the Project MUSE Premium Collection of electronic journals. Vol. 59 (2009) is in proofs and is on track to appear later this year.

The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article, along with a sample image from each of the main articles.

Articles

The Eleventh-century Daxiongbaodian of Kaihuasi and Architectural Style in Southern Shanxi’s Shangdang Region
Tracy Miller, p. 1

Continue reading “Archives of Asian Art, vol. 58 (2008)”