Michigan Publishing’s first Maize Book, Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White, edited by Julen Etxabe and Gary Watt, was published. Along with the release of our first Maize Book we’re especially excited to launch an updated design for the open access versions of our monographs. This new design aims to improve engagement with our book length content on the web through: responsive features that enable users to comfortably read on smartphones, tablets,…
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The students are back and the fall semester is in full swing here at the University of Michigan. Here, a look back at what we published in August: Music and Politics released issue 8.1. MP is an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal first published in 2007 and is published online twice per year. The current Winter 2014 issue features five new articles and a listing of new books on music and politics. The Journal of the Abraham…
It’s been four months since our last round-up post. In that time, we’ve been hard at work publishing new content, which you can check out below (you might want to grab a cup of coffee or tea–there is much to peruse!), as well as a brand-new journal. We’re looking forward to new projects on the horizon and to the beginning of the semester in just a couple of weeks! The Journal of the Southern Association…
Happy spring! The temperatures are finally starting to warm up a bit here in Ann Arbor, and April showers have begun to replace the snow. We’re pleased to share with you our new content from the month of March: A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available online. JEP 17.1 is an experimental issue of the proceedings of Books in Browsers IV. From managing editor Jonathan McGlone: “Emboldened by the experimental…
It has been quite the cold and snowy start to the new year here at the University of Michigan. Luckily, that hasn’t stopped us from releasing a bevy of new content in the past two months: ARKIVOC, the open access organic chemistry journal, released 160 new and updated articles (!). Articles from ARKIVOC are freely available for all to read or download. A new issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research was published. JAR 69.4…
Happy New Year to you and yours! We published a variety of new issues of open access journals and two new Open Humanities Press books during the month of December. Check them out below! Open Humanities Press (an international, scholar-run publishing collective) new releases: Two volumes by Claire Colebrook: The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1, and Sex After Life: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 2. Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University….
And just like that, we’re already heading into the end of a busy semester–and a busy year for Michigan Publishing. Take a look at our publishing activity from last month! Trans-Asia Photography Review published its Fall 2013 issue, 4.1: Archives. This issue explores the concept of archives as it relates to photography in Asia, the camera as “archiving machine,” and historic Asian photographs. TAP is open to online readers. The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 19.1, the latest electronic…
October was yet another exciting month of new releases for Michigan Publishing: We released a new journal! Check out Translating the Americas. The newest title in our Digital Humanities Series: Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty. See the announcement on the digitalculturebooks site. A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Michigan Publishing’s flagship journal, is now available. JEP 16.1 marks the end of Rebecca Welzenbach’s term as JEP’s…
So begins a new academic year! To start things off, we recently announced the launch of an exciting new journal: the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, an open-access and peer-reviewed publication. MJS released Volume 1 last month. Two more publications were active in September: The Journal of Anthropological Research published the Fall 2013 issue. Issue 69.3 features a mix of articles, obituaries, and book reviews. Although a full version of this issue is only available to subscribers, anyone may search the…
We have a summer blockbuster of a post for you this month, including all of Publishing Production’s activities over the summer. We’ve released a ton of new content, including a new journal! Check it out: Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism released issue 1.1. GSF is an open-access, interdisciplinary journal that launched in June this past summer. GSF focuses on research on gender studies, masculinities, sexualities, and feminism. Read more about this new journal here. The Journal of…