Dissemination of Liberal Arts Software.

This document is a report of a two-year effort by Duke University Press to make National Collegiate Software (NCS), a clearinghouse for faculty-authored liberal arts software for classroom use, a viable, scholastically respectable, self-supporting operation. NCS initially had been operated by North Carolina State University. When Duke University Press took over the program, it was with the expectation that the operating and marketing efforts needed would be analogous to those used for the books and journals published by most university presses. Duke turned the program into a more sophisticated software publishing operation rather than the clearinghouse it had been, and gained national recognition for a number of titles. However, the project never achieved break-even status, and the list of 170 software titles was sold to a commercial publisher. A catalog of the software that was available under the Duke University Press imprint is appended. (CH)