Participate: WAC Clearinghouse Fund Drive Underway

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Hi Folks,

I’m writing to announce the launch of the WAC Clearinghouse’s third fund drive (our first was in 2020 and our second was in 2022). We delayed our drive until this year as we finalized our status as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which is a key step in our sustainability plan. (And then, yesterday, I sent this message to the old list address, so there’s a further delay.)

You might know that the Clearinghouse provides high-quality scholarly publications available at no cost to everyone (you can see our website at https://wac.colostate.edu). All of these publications and resources are well used. In the past year, we’ve received more than 5.9 million visits to our website and seen 6.3 million downloads of our journal articles and books. Currently, the Clearinghouse provides:

• More than 235 peer-reviewed, open-access books
• A dozen active peer-reviewed academic journals and access to a dozen others in archival form
• The WAC Repository’s rich collection of peer-reviewed professional and pedagogical resources
• CompPile, the leading database in writing studies, and TCBib, a database for the technical and professional writing community

The Clearinghouse relies on the volunteer labor of more than 200 people for nearly all of our work (keeping our production costs to less than 20 percent of those borne by the average scholarly press). But we still incur costs, including those related to copyediting and designing our books, registering for ISBN numbers and DOIs, and paying for software and our web server, among others.

We’re hoping you might be able to help us cover some of those costs. Please consider a donation of as little as $5. Fifteen sustaining contributions of $10 per month, for example, will cover the cost of producing a book, and roughly 60 one-time contributions of $25 will cover the cost of copy editing a journal issue.

To find out how to contribute, please visit https://wac.colostate.edu/support/.

I hope you’re all doing well. 

Thanks,

Mike

 

Mike Palmquist

Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse

https://wac.colostate.edu

Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Associate Provost

Colorado State University

Email: Mike.Pa...@ColoState.edu

 

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