Company Profile
Duke University Orthopaedic Surgery
Company Overview
Duke University Press supports scholars in doing what they are passionate about: learning, teaching, and effecting positive change in the world. This bold, progressive spirit drives both what and how we publish. Each year we publish about 120 new books, more than 50 journals, and multiple digital collections that transform current thinking and move fields forward. We thrive as a nonprofit publisher because we adapt, innovate, and form strong global partnerships. It is our mission to find, curate, enrich, and disseminate scholarship that is vital to readers working at the forefront of their fields in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Our work supports Duke University’s mission to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute to the international community of scholarship.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
We have a reputation for bold scholarship. We publish the ideas of people working at the edge of their field—often ahead of their time and spearheading a critical new shift of direction for their discipline. Our brand essence can be summed up as:
Bold | Vital.
This expression of our brand essence reflects both the need for us to showcase what a modern university press stands for and can achieve, and our focus on publishing the work of radical thinkers. It challenges us to be more daring and experimental—in our design, processes, formats, and business models. It also requires us to raise the stakes in championing a new, more progressive role for university presses—embracing new ways of selecting, reviewing, and publishing content that is truly focused on the needs of authors and readers, rather than defending the status quo and legacy profits. We should seek to develop innovative partnerships with like-minded organizations to give us more weight and influence in driving forward positive changes within the industry. This idea helps give us a focus for communicating with and serving our various stakeholders:Authors will see us as a place that publishes the most exciting ideas from people working at the forefront of their fields. We will become known for the media attention and community interest we attract as a result.Journalists will pay us attention because we’re always working with cutting-edge thinkers and publishing newsworthy material.Librarians will respect us as a nonprofit but innovative organization that publishes critical and transformative work. We’ll be known for publishing “must have” books and journals, representing emerging thinking.Readers will want to read our books and bookstores will want to stock them as they will always be fresh, challenging, and innovatively designed and presented.Societies will want to partner with us, as we will be seen to combine the traditional values of a university press with a dynamic and progressive approach to publishing.
Benefits
Duke also offers a wide range of family-friendly and cultural benefits to attract, support and reward the skilled employees that help Duke remain a premier education, research, and health care institution.