Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive visited the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library on March 14th, 2012. His talk “Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage” is now available online. The slides from his talk are also now available in Deep Blue and on Slideshare.
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We’ve made the most of our extra leap year day here at MPublishing, with many new articles and issues, including a new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review: A new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review was published. Volume 50, Issue 2 features poetry from Thomas Lynch, Theodore Worozbyt, G. C. Waldrep, Janet Kauffman, and Georges Perros, essays on the life of American composer, author and translator Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Bowles, and…
The first month of 2012 has been a busy one for MPublishing, with new staff members, new issues released, and a new journal (to be announced). Philosophy & Theory in Biology, open access journal in biological philosophy and theory, published the first paper in volume four: “The Paradox of Sexual Reproduction and the Levels of Selection: Can Sociobiology Shed a Light?” by Joachim Dagg. 35 new articles were added to The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, including…
The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association is the only academic journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship. In addition to selected scholarly articles, the journal also features photographs and newly discovered Lincoln letters and documents. The Association welcomes submissions on any facet of the life of Abraham Lincoln, his family, his close associates, or his legacy, among other topics. The print version is published by the University of Illinois Press. Because they no longer support…
The Journal of Muslim Mental Health is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and clinical material, including research articles, reviews, and reflections on clincial practice relating to the mental health of Muslims in the United States and globally. It was published by Taylor & Francis for five years before the publisher ceased supporting the publication. MPublishing has taken over this journal, creating a new website for it and recently releasing the first issue…
While November saw a bounty of new published material, December was a fairly quiet month for MPublishing as we wound our way down to the University’s winter break. ARKIVOC, the open access organic chemistry journal, published 25 new articles in December. These articles are available to download for free, to all. Feminist Studies published issue 37.2. This Race and Transgender Studies special issue features a variety of scholarly articles, poetry, essays, and an interview with Latin…
Three MLibrary staff members—including two from MPublishing—have been elected to two-year terms on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium for 2012 to 2013. Paul Schaffner (Head of Encoded Text Services in MLibrary’s Digital Library Production Service) and Kevin Hawkins (Head of Digital Publishing Production for MPublishing) have both served terms previously, and they are joined by Rebecca Welzenbach (Project Outreach Librarian for the Text Creation Partnership), who will be serving her…