Every year, the University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative offers an intensive week of workshops, discussions, and seminars for instructional faculty and staff. Enriching Scholarship is an amazing opportunity to learn new skills and think creatively about your teaching and scholarship. There will be a number of sessions relevant to academic publishing and scholarly communication this year, taught by staff from many different areas of the library as well as the university at large….
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A working scholar has precious little time to apply to attracting readers for a new book. But also can’t afford not to. The middle ground is, as Plutarch would say, to promote wisely and well, utilizing available resources for the best and strongest use of already overtaxed time. Please join us on Tuesday, April 9, as we welcome to campus Kevin Smokler, a noted expert on the relationship between new technologies and traditional publishing. He…
Are you an undergraduate, graduate student, or faculty member interested in learning more about academic publishing? Please join us for a distinguished panel of faculty members from across the disciplines who will discuss the academic publishing experience for aspiring authors from a variety of viewpoints. All are welcome to attend. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Panelists include: Laura Buttitta, Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, will share her experience publishing as an early-career…
Open Education Week is a global celebration of open education and its impact on learning. Please join us for the following events sponsored by the University Library: “The (not really) Secret Life of Wikipedia,” Lecture & discussion with Cliff Lampe, Assistant Professor, UM School of Information 11 March 2013, 1-2:30PM @ Hatcher Gallery Free and open to the public Professor Lampe discusses the various social structures that have evolved in Wikipedia, and how these processes…
The American Oriental Society recently awarded its Jonas Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists to Aaron Tugendhaft for his article “How to Become a Brother in the Bronze Age: An Inquiry into the Representation of Politics in Ugaritic Myth,” published in the journal Fragments. The prize is awarded every three years to a scholar under forty for the best article in any area of Semitic studies that has been published in the past two years. In awarding…
The University of Michigan, in collaboration with more than 50 other academic libraries and the Educopia Institute, has joined a two-year project (2013-2014) to create the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regarding the need for a community dedicated to advancing the field of library publishing. The University of Michigan will play an integral role in the design and implementation of…
Last semester we introduced a series of workshops for graduate students interested in learning about various aspects of publishing. We’re happy to report that the series is bigger and better for the Winter 2013 term. Use the links below to register for sessions. If you have questions regarding the series or suggestions for future workshops, please contact mpublishing@umich.edu. Graduate Student’s Guide to Publishing Thursday, February 7, 2013, 3-4PM This session will address issues that face…
Here in Ann Arbor, the new semester is just starting. As we settle into 2013, let’s take a moment to review some of our accomplishments in the last year… 2012 by the numbers: 23 instruction sessions on copyright, digital publishing, and scholarly communication 312 tweets from @M_Publishing 4,229 new EEBO-TCP texts published this year, bringing the total number of EEBO-TCP texts to 44,419 6,643 page views on our research guides 9,932 unique visitors to publishing.umich.edu…
We’re proud to announce the latest title from digitalculturebooks, Andrew Herscher’s The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility. The Guide documents art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces,…
After the creation of MPublishing as a formal unit in 2009, we are now taking further steps to bring together the robust publishing units at the University of Michigan, now part of the University of Michigan Library. We have now created three cross-unit departments that bring together the vast scholarly and trade publishing experience of the University of Michigan Press with the digital publishing capabilities that were part of the former Scholarly Publishing Office. These…