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PUBLICATION FUNDS

Leonard Hastings Schoff's will left funds to assist in the publication of learned manuscripts or monographs produced under the auspices of the University Seminars in the fields of economics, sociology, psychology, penology, or the behavioral sciences, and already approved for publication. 

With help from the Warner family and others, the University Seminars have established the Warner Fund to support publication on the same terms in the natural sciences, the arts, the humanities, and other fields that interested Aaron Warner, the social scientist who was Director of the University Seminars for twenty-seven years.


GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES

To apply for support from the Leonard Hastings Schoff or the Aaron Warner Fund for indexing, translating, technical editing, illustrating, or other publication costs, simply write a letter, or better an e-mail, to Robert L. Belknap (rb12@columbia.edu) describing your book in a page or two, and itemizing your costs and other sources of support. 

To conform to the Schoff will, the letter should show:

1)  that the book has been accepted for publication.  (Conditional acceptance is often enough, and a photocopy or e-mail letter from the Publisher is probably easiest.)

2)  that the book was produced under the auspices of a University Seminar.  (Normally, at least a part of it has been presented and discussed at a University Seminar, and that discussion has influenced the book.)

If those conditions have been satisfied, the University Seminars Schoff-Warner Committee considers the value of the book and the reasonableness of the budget numbers in comparison with other requests, but subject to the following priorities:

  1. Books produced entirely as Seminar projects.   
  2. Monographs by regular Seminar participants, of which some part was presented and discussed at a Seminar meeting.       
  3. Monographs including materials presented and discussed by a speaker at a Seminar meeting.

The Committee can usually respond within a week or two.  If it awards support, authors should send bills directly to the University Seminars for payment rather than requesting a reimbursement that might be mistaken for taxable income.