We are pleased to announce the release of 4,180 texts from the second phase of our Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project. These texts were produced in collaboration with ProQuest, and are available immediately to EEBO-TCP Phase II partners. The entire EEBO-TCP archive is now available–anyone may search, browse, and explore the corpus. Access to the full text of EEBO-TCP digital editions is restricted to partner institutions for a limited period – about 10…
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April is the cruelest month, not only for “breeding Lilacs out of the dead land … and stirring Dull roots with spring rain,”* but also because everyone’s end of the year papers are due. We understand this, because every April we at the Copyright Office get a lot of questions about papers, theses, and dissertations. This year, we, along with one of our fabulous interns, Jessie Mannisto, have prepared some resources to help answer some of our frequently asked questions. Jessie has complied resources and…
UPDATE: Please note that as of 5/1/2016, the Library no longer offers the EBM service. This post is retained for archival purposes only. “Given that bookstores sell books, while libraries lend them, one might well wonder why a library would want to install a book-making machine and sell books on site.” Terri Geitgey, Manager of Library Print Services at MPublishing, recently published an article in Library’s Hi Tech’s latest issue, Hardware in Libraries, about the…
What are University of Michigan student and faculty preferences in selecting and using textbooks? Natsuko Nicholls, MPublishing’s Research Area Specialist Associate, has been doing the research to answer this question. Here is her latest update: As a follow-up to the Library’s 2009 textbook survey, this semester the Campus-wide E-textbook Working Group launched a Winter 2011 trial to assess e-textbook services. Five courses from a variety of disciplines and levels were selected. The trial includes pre- and post-pilot…