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crl-15378	Lewis, Janice S.	An Assessment of Publisher Quality by Political Science Librarians	2000	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5382	164	45	Not surprisingly, many textbook publish­ ers, including Houghton Mifflin Com­ pany, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 320 College & Research Libraries July 2000 TABLE 4 Com(arison of APSA and LPSS Rankings for Publisher Quality APSA APSA Rank Mean Publisher LPSS Rank LPSS Mean Ranking Differential 1 2 t3 t3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 t17 t17 19 t20 t20 22 t23 t23 25 26 27 28 29 t30 t30 t30 t33 t33 t35 t35 37 t38 t38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 3.72 3.61 3.56 3.56 3.48 3.46 3.31 3.24 3.19 3.09 3.06 3.05 3.04 3.02 2.93 2.81 2.78 2.78 2.74 2.71 2.71 2.65 2.63 2.63 2.61 2.59 2.56 2.54 2.51 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.49 2.49 2.48 2.48 2.47 2.46 2.46 2.4 2.39 2.37 2.35 2.32 2.31 2.3 Cambridge University Press 2 Princeton University Press 9 Oxford University Press 1 University of Chicago Press 6 Yale University Press 5 Harvard University Press 3 University of California Press 15 Cornell University Press 8 University of Michigan Press t21 MIT Press 10 Stanford University Press 12 Johns Hopkins University Press 4 Brookings Institution Columbia University Press 7 Congressional Quarterly Press 13 Basic Books 45 W.W. Norton and Company 44 Blackwell Publishers 29 Routledge t21 Sage Publications, Inc. t38 St. Martin's Press 31 University of North Carolina Press 14 Duke University Press t17 University of Wisconsin Press 16 Penguin Putnam Inc. 47 Westview Press 20 Houghton Mifflin Company 52 Chatham House Publishers 50 New York University Press 11 University of Pittsburgh Press t24 Random House, Inc. 56 Rowman & Littlefield 34 Indiana University Press 23 HarperCollins College Publishers 60 Lynne Rienner Publishers 33 Simon and Schuster 48 West Publishing Company 28 Prentice Hall 49 Macmillan 35 State University of New York Press 27 Penn State Press 19 McGraw-Hill, Inc. 51 Longman Publishing Group 43 University of Illinois Press t24 Harcourt Brace College Publishers 61 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 30 3.71 3.5 3.81 3.58 3.63 3.68 3.37 3.54 3.23 3.49 3.45 3.64 3.55 3.44 2.56 2.62 3.03 3.23 2.8 2.97 3.42 3.3 3.33 2.52 3.24 2.4 2.43 3.47 3.15 2.31 2.86 3.21 2.17 2.89 2.47 3.09 2.45 2.85 3.13 3.29 2.42 2.64 3.15 2.14 3 -1 -7 2 -3 0 3 -8 0 -12 0 -1 8 7 2 -29 -27 -12 -2 -18 -11 8 6 7 -22 6 -25 -22 18 6 -26 -4 10 -27 2 -13 9 -11 3 13 22 -9 0 20 -16 16 An Assessment of Publisher Quality by Political Science Librarians 321 TABLE 4 (CONT) Comparison of APSA and LPSS Rankings for Publisher Quality APSA Rank APSA Mean Publisher LPSS Rank LPSS Mean Ranking Differential 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 t64 t64 2.26 2.25 2.16 2.14 2.11 2.09 2.08 2.03 2.02 2 1.96 1.95 1.91 1.86 1.83 1.81 1.51 1.47 1.47 Temple University Press t24 Kluwer University Press of Virginia t17 United States Institute of Peace Allyn & Bacon 57 Wadsworth Publishing Company 55 Frank Cass Publishers 54 Louisiana State University Press 32 Transaction Publishers t38 University of South Carolina Press t41 D.C. A helpful aid to new selectors (and a useful basis for com­ parison and perhaps reinforcement or re­ consideration for experienced selectors) would be studies that assess other selec­ tors’ perceptions of publisher quality in a particular discipline.	cache/crl-15378.pdf	txt/crl-15378.txt