We’re excited to announce the open-access version of Hacking the Academy, The Edited Volume. The volume is forthcoming in print under the University of Michigan Press digitalculturebooks imprint. Hacking the Academy was assembled and edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt from the best of over 300 submissions on how the academy could be beneficially reformed using digital media and technology.
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HASTAC has issued a call for proposals for the 2011 HASTAC V Conference. The theme this year is digital scholarly communication: the topics they seek include (among other things) copyright challenges, expanding the digital arts to include humanities (and vice-versa), new forms of research in the digital humanities, and strategies for digital scholarly communication. MPublishing’s own Phil Pochoda, Director of the UMichigan Press, is being hosted by the Institute for the Humanities as one of…
Shana Kimball, head of publishing services, outreach, & strategic development for MPublishing, recently spoke at the 2011 KIT (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)/CLIR (Council of Library and Information Resources) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science. This annual event, which focuses on the role of IT in enhancing the educational role of research libraries, brings five leaders in LIS from the US to Kanazawa, Japan, to share their perspectives with a Japanese audience. This year’s other…
Are you interested in how copyright affects your professional life? Do you miss the fun and welcoming atmosphere of summer camp? Then plan to join MPublishing at Copyright Camp, where we’ll provide a forum to discuss copyright and how it affects you on a daily basis. Copyright Camp will be an unconference-style event with an introductory plenary by Deborah Wythe, Director of the Brooklyn Museum’s Digital Collections and open access pioneer. This event is free…
This Fall, digitalculturebooks will be releasing its first book in the new Digital Humanities Series. The purpose of this series is to “feature rigorous research that advances understanding of the nature and implications of the changing relationship between humanities and digital technologies.” MPublishing was able to sit down with one of the series editors and Professor of Humanities in the English Department at Wayne State University, Julie Thompson Klein, to discuss her own digital humanities…
Four titles in our imprint, digitalculturebooks, have just been made available to view for free online through Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC-ND): Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics, by Jennifer Gabrys The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life, by David Buckingham, Maria Pini, and Rebeckah Willett The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through…
Copyright law is, for good or for ill, now a part of the academic experience. Learning about copyright and alternative models of distribution, such as Creative Commons and Open Access, is an important piece of effectively navigating the waters of the new educational reality. The third annual eCornucopia conference at Oakland University will examine specific examples about how openness is implemented in higher education and the importance of increasing the transparency and accessibility of knowledge….
Next week, May 2-6, the U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative will host their annual conference, Enriching Scholarship, and invite “faculty and instructional staff to enhance their teaching and research by participating in a week of free seminars, workshops, demonstrations and other events drawing upon the expertise of faculty and instructional technology specialists from across campus. Enriching Scholarship offers sessions exploring the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research.” Registration for the 100+ workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and social…
This year’s Great Lakes THATCamp is just around the corner, and MPublishing staff are busy getting ready. The Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Great Lakes THATCamp will be held on the Michigan State University campus on April 30th & May 1st, 2011 in the Residential College of Arts & Humanities,…
MPublishing works in close collaboration with scholars, and we are saddened to announce the loss of a longtime partner and advocate on April 2. Richard W. Bailey, professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, published six monographs with the University of Michigan Press during his career. He also co-created an online-only scholarly edition of an Early Modern text, A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563 by Henry Machyn, published jointly by the University…