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  #1 salma1504 on 01 Oct 14

   

  the university presses in the United States were by and large founded specifically for the publication of scholarship; in this sense, as Thompson points out, "they were generally seen as an integral part of the function of the university" (Thompson 108). In fact, Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, established what is now the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States there in 1878, as a result of his sense that "publishing, along with teaching and research, was a primary obligation of a great university"

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">the university presses in the United States were by and large founded specifically for the publication of scholarship; in this sense, as Thompson points out, "they were generally seen as an integral part of the function of the university" (Thompson 108). In fact, Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, established what is now the oldest continuously operating university press in the United States there in 1878, as a result of his sense that "publishing, along with teaching and research, was a primary obligation of a great university"</div>

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