Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:30P-2:00PM Register via U-M TTC A professional online presence is one of the best tools a scholar can employ to increase the visibility of their teaching and research, and to find potential jobs, collaborators, co-authors, and readers. This workshop will cover how to create an effective and professional presence online, an essential tool for graduate students and faculty at all stages in their careers. Register for the workshop here.
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If you are a U-M faculty, staff member, or student who has recently received a takedown notice from Elsevier regarding research papers posted on Academia.edu, we can offer assistance with finding other mechanisms for sharing your work. Expert staff at Michigan Publishing can help you understand what rights you’ve retained in a publication agreement, where and what version of your work can be posted on personal and third-party websites, and how Deep Blue, the U-M…
The Association of American University Presses is celebrating the second annual University Press Week (November 10-16, 2013), which highlights the important work university presses do in furthering research and scholarship. We are proud to see Philosophers’ Imprint, a highly respected open access journal for philosophy published by Michigan Publishing, cited as an example of innovation and excellence in scholarly publishing. To learn more about the exciting and pioneering work of today’s university presses, see “Ideas Unbound” from AAUP.
Michigan Publishing seeks a talented and creative acquisitions editor for the University of Michigan Press, specializing in interdisciplinary humanities, who will report to the Editorial Director and be responsible for acquiring and developing major scholarly titles. This editor should demonstrate knowledge and competence in traditional academic publishing while at the same time possessing the flexibility and desire to work with other Michigan Publishing imprints. Fields of preferred expertise include cultural studies, digital culture, and history….
Celebrate Open Access Week at the University of Michigan Library, October 21-27, 2013. We’re hosting a series of events that highlight projects, research, and policies at U-M that allow the public to access and reuse the results of scholarly research. The U-M Library is committed to supporting Open Access research and scholarly practices by providing publishing support, research support, and education on how U-M faculty, students, and staff can participate in this global movement. Monday,…
Knowledge Unlatched–a project to fund open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences published by academic presses—has released its pilot collection, twenty-eight new books from thirteen presses. The University of Michigan Press is excited to participate in this project, with the inclusion of three titles: Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism, Roger Douglas Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies—the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—over…
The Institute for the Humanities has partnered with us to offer a series of talks and workshops for faculty and graduate students interested in the future of publishing and its current practices. These sessions will help scholars gain the knowledge and skills to become savvier authors and editors. To kick off the series, Paul Courant, Acting Director of Michigan Publishing, and Aaron McCollough, Editorial Director, UM Press, will be joined by Sarah Lippincott, Program Manager…
This fall we’re continuing our popular “Publish Not Perish” series of workshops for graduate students who want to learn more about publishing, copyright, open access, and more. Thanks to feedback from past attendees, we’ve added discipline-specific introductory sessions for the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Use the links below to register. The series will continue next semester with additional workshops and a faculty panel on publishing. Open Access Essentials Monday, 10/21, 10:00 am-11:00 am Open…
The editors of Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning invite readers to comment on a new digital book in-progress during its open peer review phase, now through October 30th, 2013. General audiences will join four designated expert reviewers in publicly posting online commentary to shape the direction of the final manuscript, thereby making the traditionally hidden process of peer review more visible and transparent. Based on essays from twenty-five contributors,…
John A. Williams, M.D., Ph.D., Horace W. Davenport Collegiate Professor of Physiology, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Professor of Internal Medicine has been awarded the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the University of Michigan Medical School on a faculty member for research in the biomedical sciences. From the Medical School’s announcement: Dr. Williams is being recognized for his numerous research accomplishments, a strong…