Summer has almost come to an end. We’re excited to welcome students back to campus, as well as welcoming a new journal: We are excited to announce the release of a new MPublishing-hosted journal, Music and Politics. Published since 2007 and edited by Patricia Hall (Professor and Chair of Music Theory at the UM School of Music Theatre and Dance, Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published twice annually. Rich with audio and visual examples…
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It’s been a fairly quiet month at MPublishing as we head into the dog days of summer. Here’s what we’ve released so far this summer: Human Figurations released Issue 2 of Volume 1, featuring new articles and book reviews. Human Figurations, a journal on sociology and other disciplines, is one of our newest publications. Philosophy & Theory in Biology–the peer-reviewed open access online journal–released issue 4.4, which includes four new articles. The PTB site also got…
Happy summer! Here’s what we’ve been working on in the MPublishing office during the month of June. The last issue of 2011 for Michigan Quarterly Review was made freely available. Volume 50, Issue 4 features poetry from Randy Blasing, Todd Boss, Martha Collins, Rick Hilles, Patricia Hooper, and Joe Wilkins and fiction by Peter Ho Davies, Massa Makan Diabaté, Janis Hubschman, Lia Silver, and Jonathan Strong. Issue 4 also features Elizabeth Alexander on black experimental poetry, Marian Crotty on the borderline lover,…
Philosopher’s Imprint, the free online philosophy journal, released it’s 100th article last week! That article is “Inner and Outer Truth” by Iris Einheuser. The Imprint is one of the first serials published by MPublishing. It was founded in the spirit of the open access movement, which–broadly–seeks to make scholarship more widely available outside traditional publishing models, as well as promoting a future in which funds currently spent on journal subscriptions are redirected to the electronic dissemination of scholarship…
Three open-access books were published jointly by MPublishing and Open Humanities Press in May: Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, edited by Tom Cohen, is a collection of essays by notable critics and philosophers and is part of the Climate Change Series. Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2, edited by Henry Sussman, is a diverse collection of essays that use current ecological, demographic, socio-political, economic, and…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the release of Human Figurations, a new journal supported and sponsored by the Norbert Elias Foundation. Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his theory of ‘civilizing processes’, but his ambitious vision for the scope of the social sciences extended to the whole development of human society from its earliest origins, including the long-term growth of knowledge and the sciences. Elias…
Along with the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection, we are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology is now available as a fully encoded online volume. Although the Proceedings has long been available online in PDF format, the entire text is now fully encoded in html. The html encoding will provide functionality far beyond the PDF version, such as: Hyperlinks are included to both endnotes and outside sources. Search…
April showers bring… lots of new publications! Here’s what was on tap for April: The cover of the special Great Lakes issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 17.2, the latest electronic back issue from Spring 2011. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from university students’ views on a public service requirement for graduation to building community-university partnerships. MJCSL makes past issues available for free online. Current material (Volume…
Several MPublishing members recently returned from a mini-conference in Chicago. Jason Colman from Digital Publishing Production sums it up for us: Along with two other MPublishing staff, I made the trek to Chicago for the O’Reilly Tools of Change Mini-Conference on April 9th. The Mini TOC made for an interesting mix of folks from university presses, small publishing houses, libraries, and big corporations. Brian Fitzpatrick, who founded Google’s Chicago engineering office, spoke about the…
We’ve got quite a list of new publications to share with you this month: Feminist Studies published a new issue. FS 37.3 features a variety of poetry, fiction, and scholarly articles that focus on the theme of feminist histories and institutional practices. Feminist Studies is available in its entirety to subscribers, but anyone can search or browse the journal and purchase PDFs of individual articles. Volume 2 of Fragments released its first seven articles and commentaries of the year….