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» Around half of responding institutions cen- tralize management of their publishing activi- ties within one library unit. The number of staff allocated to publishing activities is modest — averaging 2.4 FTE for ARLs and 0.9 FTE for Oberlin Group institutions — with older programs typically being larger. Staff dedicated exclusively to publishing service programs are relatively rare, with responsibility for such ser- vices typically fragmented across multiple staff members. » The perceived relevance of publishing services to the library's mission, and the integration of such services into the library's budget, helps explain the relative lack of emphasis on sus- tainability planning. Few institutions (15%) have a documented sustainability plan for their publishing services, and only a fifth have evaluated the value or effectiveness of their publishing services. » The most prevalent journal publishing plat- forms reported were Open Journal Systems (57%), DSpace (36%), and Berkeley Electronic Press' s Digital Commons (25%). » According to respondents, the three resources most needed for planning or operating a library-based pub- lishing service are guides to business issues, information on publishing platforms and examples of policy and process documents. The report includes a series of recom- mendations for future development of library publishing services based on the survey, workshops, case studies, and lit- erature review. These are centered around developing best practices, collaborating to create community-based resources and formalizing skills and training. The report provides valuable context as Purdue Libraries plans for continued expansion of its own publishing services in 2012. Writer: Charles Watkinson is director of Purdue University Press, a unit of Purdue Libraries. You may contact him at cwatkinson@ purdue.edu or 494-8251. Newly Published Books Richard Latin A Practical Guide to Turfgrass Fungicides A comprehensive resource that addresses fungicides specifically used for turf disease control, the guide is the first book written in practical terms for turf managers and students that describes how and why fungicides work (and why sometimes they do not work). By providing a strong foundation on the nature of turf management tools, Latin enables them to make decisions from a more informed perspective while also providing background for effective communication of disease control issues with administrators, golf patrons and the public. Randy Roberts A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation "There never has been a sports event, perhaps never an event of any kind, that received the attention of so many Americans in so many places around the world." So wrote a reporter on December 2, 1944, about the greatest Army-Navy football game in the long history of that storied rivalry. Roberts has interviewed surviving players and coaches for nearly a decade on one of the most memorable stories in all of American sports. Laurel Weldon When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Move- ments Represent Disadvantaged Groups (The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics) What role do social movements play in a democ- racy? Weldon demonstrates that social movements provide a previously unrecognized form of democratic representa- tion, offering significant potential for deepening democracy and overcoming social conflict. Through a series of case studies of movements conducted by women, women of color and workers in the United States and other member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Weldon examines processes of representation at the local, state and national levels. Fenggang Yang Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule Religion in China survived the most radical suppres- sion in human history — a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. Over the last three decades, however, religion has revived and thrived even as China remains under Communist rule. Christianity ranks among the fastest-growing religions in the country, and many Buddhist and Daoist temples have been restored. In Religion in China, Yang provides an overview and a theoretical interpretation of the religious change in China under Communism. Spring 2012 11