It’s been a fairly quiet month as we ease into summer here at Michigan Publishing. Here’s what we produced for the month of May. Music and Politics released issue 6.2. MP is an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal first published in 2007 and is published online twice per year. The current Summer 2012 issue features articles on a Soviet composer visiting the U.S. in 1949, performance rights in Europe, and a listing of new books on music…
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Spring has sprung! We have a fresh crop of new releases to share with you this month: The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 18.2, the latest electronic back issue from Spring 2012. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from student and faculty learning to dance performance. MJCSL makes past issues available for free online. Current material is available in hard copy through a subscription. Trans-Asia Photography Review published its Spring 2013 issue, 3.2: Local Culture/Global Photography. This issue…
March has come and gone, and April showers have arrived in force. Here’s what we published last month as we stayed inside to keep dry: The International Institute Journal published the Fall 2012 issue, 2.1. IIJ is an open-access serial produced jointly by the University of Michigan’s International Institute (II) and Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS); it features essays and articles written by the faculty, students, and fellows of II and CICS. The Summer 2013 issue of the Michigan…
It may still be snowing here in Ann Arbor, but we’re still excited for spring–and new publications: Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality by Timothy Morton, an open access book, was published jointly by Michigan Publishing and Open Humanities Press. Human Figurations released 2.1, featuring new articles and book reviews. Human Figurations, a journal on sociology and other disciplines, is one of our newest publications. The Philosopher’s Imprint, the open access philosophy series, released one new paper: From Coordination to Content by Samuel Cumming. Volumes 9 and…
Publishing Production hit the ground running for 2013. Here’s what we’ve published in the first month of the new year: Feminist Studies published issue 38.3. The newest issue commemorates the scholarship of former editorial director Claire Goldberg Moses and her pioneering innovations in feminist publishing. Feminist Studies is available in its entirety to subscribers, but anyone can search or browse the journal and purchase PDFs of individual articles. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association released the Summer 2012…
Happy New Year from all of us in Publishing Production! While we’re busy prepping content and getting excited for what’s to come in 2013, take a look at what we published in the last month of 2012: The Journal of Anthropological Research released issue 68.4. This issue features new articles on topics ranging from language to identity to cultural heritage; as well as fifteen new book reviews. This publication is available in full to subscribers only,…
It has been a busy and exciting fall here at MPublishing. We’ve been winding the month with some new content to share with you: digitalcuturebooks newest title: The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit by Andrew Herscher. (see here for our previous announcement) The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 18.1, the latest electronic back issue from Fall 2011. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from service-learning, to linking the academy and the common reader, to…
I had a fantastic time as a Forum Fellow at the Digital Library Federation Forum 2012, and am very grateful to DLF for the opportunity. I was also fortunate to be assigned a mentor: Jenn Riley, the head of the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina. Jenn was wonderful about answering all of my questions, from digital preservation, how digital archives work, to how UNC is thinking about digital publishing…
We at the Digital Publishing Production unit of MPublishing work with publishing partners at the University of Michigan and around the world to increase access to new and existing academic work. Here’s what’s new for the month of October: Nineteen new and updated articles in ARKIVOC, the free online journal for organic chemistry. Feminist Studies published issue 38.2. From the abstract, “Authors in this issue take up what we call the politics of history and recovery across a…
September was an exciting month for new releases in MPublishing: Dr. Chuck Severance’s Python for Informatics in iBooks, a new issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and the launch of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia. As if that weren’t enough, here is what else we released in September: The Journal of Anthropological Research released issue 68.3. This issue features seventeen book reviews, in addition to seven new articles. This publication is available in full to subscribers only, but…