You might have noticed that The Professors at Play AI PlayBook was put out by Play Story Press and wondered, “Who is that?”
In short, PSP is the evolution of Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press. The new consortium will carry on the work started with ETC, and will be run by ETC Press’ founder, Drew Davidson.
As an open community publishing consortium, PSP is committed to serving the broader play community through open-access publishing. Professors at Play is delighted to participate as one of Play Story Press’s founding community partners. Leveraging the PSP platform and consortium, we can now publish under the Professors at Play Publications at Play imprint. What does this mean to the P@P community? Several things:
- Having an academic press publishing partner allows us to make longer-term publishing plans without worrying about where things will end up.
- The PSP format is super flexible. We will be able to produce non-traditional publications like the AI PlayBook, but we can also support peer-reviewed articles and books as well.
- More control over the publishing process means we can get things out more quickly!
Check out the Play Story Press website to see the press’ current work and learn more from the press release below:
Play Story Press – An Open Community Publishing Consortium
We are excited to announce the founding of Play Story Press™, https://playstorypress.org, an open community publishing consortium of/by/for the field and our community. It is a diamond open-access academic publishing initiative in which contributors retain all of their intellectual property. We work with our contributors in as timely a manner as possible so that we can share ideas that have impact and significance in our society. The common tie for all these is a focus on issues related to stories and play as they are applied across various fields. The concepts of story and play are broad and diverse—from entertainment and narrative to media studies and social studies, games and technology to health and enjoyment, education and learning to design and development, and more.
Play Story Press is a culmination of 20 years of open-access publishing and collaborating with the community. Our founders started ETC Press in 2005 as an experimental open-access academic publishing imprint, and the success we had was a direct result of all the quality work that was written by our community. Inspired by this, Play Story Press is an evolution to become even more focused on the community and field. The consortium comprises an exceptional group of partner organizations that will work together, shaping and supporting Play Story Press for the field and community. The following groups are committed to this endeavor (and we’re actively in discussions with more potential partners):
Analog Game Studies
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives
Broke the Game
Connected Learning Alliance
Digital Games Research Association
Digital Storytelling Lab
Game Genius
Games for Change
Games+Learning+Society
Higher Education Video Game Alliance
International Game Developers Association
iThrive Games / History Co:Lab
Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Knowledge Commons
Learning Games Network
Meaningful Play
Professors at Play
Remake Learning
Serious Play Conference
Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games
Take This
Thriving in Games Group (formerly Fair Play Alliance)
Play Story Press™ is an independent non-profit organization powered with input and involvement from the consortium, our contributors, and the community at large. This continues our innovations in publishing, and we invite people to participate. Together, we can explore and create the future of open academic publishing, sharing and spreading ideas and knowledge that can help change the world for the better.