Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima (Northwestern University Libraries)

[chrisdaaz]

I'm nearly finished with Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima, an edited monograph about nuclear disaster compensation issues published by Northwestern University Libraries.

I've been really impressed by how Quire anticipates the desires of authors and publishers, such as providing both grid and list layouts for the table of contents, the availability of contributor/ bibliography short codes, and the ability to easily toggle specific pages for specific output formats.

It was especially helpful to find the git repos of Getty-published Quire works to figure out how to implement specific elements (such as a copyright page). I hope to use Quire for more academic and educational projects in the future.

[geealbers]

Thanks for sharing @chrisdaaz! And thanks for pointing out a resource we have available, but I think don't do a good job of promoting, our own publications! Glad you found them and found them useful.

For others who might be interested ...

You can find many of our Quire publications in Getty's GitHub organization by searching for the "publications" and "quire" tags: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Athegetty+quire+publications.

We try to make as many of our Quire project repositories public as we can (after being careful what we include in the repos). This gives us a public, scholarly record of changes made to the publication after its publication date, and a resource in developing other Quire projects. If you're interested in seeing what we did in a certain project you can look in the layouts directory where you'll see any templates or shortcodes we added or customized for the project, and in static/css/custom.css for all the custom styles. For the templates, we try to always add in all caps at the top of the file what it is we changed from the standard, default template. All Getty Quire projects start with the standard template that you get when you run quire new!