While many of our journals are online-only publications, sometimes readers still want the ability to print articles in order to facilitate deeper engagement and long-form reading. Though they can certainly print a copy of the web version of an article, a version typeset for print is more attractive and easier to use in hard copy. Some of our publishing partners already create a typeset version of their publications. Others, however, lack the resources or expertise…
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In April, we announced a project to create a new publishing platform for journal content. The project—now known as mPach—will be a package of tools to enable the publication of open-access journals directly into HathiTrust, as well as allow for integration of popular journal publishing tools such as Open Journal Systems (OJS). MPublishing’s Kevin Hawkins recently gave an invited presentation to staff at the headquarters of the American Theological Library Association on HathiTrust, MPublishing, and mPach. Kevin’s slides are available online,…
Here at MPublishing we’re paying close attention to the news coming out of Columbia, MO regarding the University of Missouri and its newly “reimagined” university press. If you’d like to learn more about this emerging story, MU’s initial press release is available here. According to MU Chancellor Brady Deaton: This new 21st century press will enable the University of Missouri to be an innovator and nationwide leader in university publishing at a time when traditional academic…
The latest book from Open Humanities Press is now available to read online, download, or purchase. The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies by John Carlos Rowe asks important questions about the role of public intellectuals, cultural critics, and the discipline of American Studies itself in today’s media environment. John Carlos Rowe is the USC Associates Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of…
After much consideration, Maria Bonn has decided not to return as our Associate University Librarian for Publishing. As many of you know, Maria spent the last year recovering from an accident, and Paul Courant, Dean of the University Library, has been serving as the interim AUL for Publishing. Maria was a driving force in the development of MPublishing, and her vision helped us immeasurably in our mission to provide innovative publishing services and products for…
We are proud to report that Korey Jackson, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at MPublishing, was selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Early Career Award from the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). The award supports attendance at the SSP’s Annual Conference and pairs awardees with mentors in senior management positions within member organizations. As SSP President Terry Van Schaik remarked in a recent press release, “The winners of these 2012 awards, who come from…
Together with the HathiTrust team, MPublishing is developing a new modular, open source platform for open access journal publishing. jPach (pronounced “jay-pack”) will replace our current digital publishing system, and will hopefully serve as a model for comparable tools for other HathiTrust partner institutions. jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will…
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, focusing on topics like alternatives to traditional publishing models, open access, copyright, creating your own e-books, working…
MPublishing is pleased to be among the few dozen publishers of open-access scholarly monographs to have their openly licensed titles available in time for the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books, an initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. OAPEN hopes this directory, modeled after the Directory of Open Access Journals (in which many MPublishing journals are also listed), will “create a valuable resource for the scholarly community and public,” according to Eelco Ferwerda, director…
University of Michigan professor Andy Markovits will be awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on March 14, 2012. The Order of Merit is the highest award Germany pays to individuals in recognition of their service to the nation. Professor Markovits is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Markovits is the…