[NB: This post was written by Professor Don Herzog, the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Professor Herzog’s Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England was published by Yale University Press in 2013. Prior to publication, it was made freely available via Deep Blue, the University of Michigan’s institutional repository.] Let’s face it: most of us don’t write for derisory royalties. We write for readers, and we hope our work…
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NB: This post has been edited to include additional material. The American Historical Association recently announced a “Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations.” The policy “strongly encourages [but does not require] graduate programs and university libraries to adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as six years.” In a follow-up post, the AHA clarified that embargoes “primarily benefit junior…
Mark McCabe, a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Information, and Christopher Snyder, a faculty member in Economics at Dartmouth College, have published a new study of the impact of open access on citation rates for science journal content. McCabe and Snyder found that open access increases citation rates for high-quality content, while reducing citations to lower-quality content. In their paper, “The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: The Effect…
NB: Written by our Associate University Librarian for Publishing, John Wilkin, this post is the first in a series that will discuss our ongoing commitment to creating the future of scholarly communication. Future writings will discuss our various imprints, as well as authors’ perspectives on the changing nature of academic publishing. Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce a new author contract that signals important changes in the way that we engage with our authors and…
Kevin Hawkins, director of publishing operations, has been named to NISO’s JATS Standing Committee, which will manage NISO Z39.96-2012 under Continuous Maintenance, with periodic revisions to the standard. The standard for JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, provides a common set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles, and allows publishers to exchange this content. Kevin has also been invited to be a member of the review committee…
Our own Jim Ottaviani, librarian for Deep Blue, has just published his latest book — Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. The New York Times recently reviewed Primates, and had high praise for the work of both Maris Wicks, the book’s illustrator, and Jim: “Despite the inherent challenges [of presenting three separate narratives], they succeed in conjuring the feel of extraordinary science. And they do so not by manufacturing…
Michigan Publishing is happy to announce the online availability of a new open access publication, the Frankel Institute Annual. Produced since 2008 by the University of Michigan’s Jean & Samuel Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Annual collects interdisciplinary essays from the Institute’s visiting scholars into a single yearly issue. The most recent issue of the Annual features diverse essays on Jews and political life, from Marxism to the Inquisition to modern American Jewish…
Our friend and colleague Jack Dougherty posed several excellent questions after our recent announcement. With Jack’s permission, we’ve reproduced his questions here with answers and commentary indented below. We have also included a follow-up question from another friend and colleague, Kristen Nawrotzki. Many thanks to Jack and Kristen for the opportunity to participate in a stimulating dialogue!
The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, we’re proud to announce Maize Books, a new Michigan Publishing imprint. This imprint represents a lean, responsive model for publishing scholarly and creative works. We understand that scholarship can take many forms, and that traditional academic publishers aren’t always interested in items that don’t fit the typical categories of a “monograph” or…
[NB: This article was written by Susan Topol, and is being shared via Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.] ICD Connection: Living with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator is a collection of stories that describe what it’s like to live with an ICD—a device that is implanted under the skin to treat life-threatening heart rhythms that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest. The ICD Connection book contains chapters written by ICD patients, family members, and caregivers, and…