Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for- profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library) are pleased to announce that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of open access scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Under the arrangement, U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU which has recently also established presences in Germany and Australia. “I’m delighted that KU can benefit from…
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We are pleased to announce that we have just launched a pilot of Altmetric, a tool that will provide easy access to article-level alternative metrics for our digital publications. This tool has been implemented first on our open access journals content, with open monographs and materials in Deep Blue, the University of Michigan’s institutional repository, to follow soon. Altmetric searches the web for mentions of Michigan Publishing content (as well as for Nature, Science, Oxford…
Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce the first issue of Weave: Journal of Library User Experience. According to the editors, While new jobs are being created for User Experience librarians and some departments are being renamed “User Experience” teams, there is still no comprehensive, rigorous publication for library UX professionals to share with and learn from their colleagues. Weave is intended to fill that gap. Weave helps practitioners and theorists come together to make libraries better. Alongside…
Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy. According to the editors, Ergo responds to “a need for general philosophy journals that are efficient, open access, inclusive, and transparent.” While maintaining very high standards for acceptance (since the journal began accepting submissions in July 2013, the editors and reviewers have rejected 93% of 170 submissions), Ergo also hopes to begin to address the imbalance in gender and race…
Regular users of EEBO-TCP may have noticed that the corpus recently grew by a few thousand texts. As of March 2014, 3,913 new titles have been released, bringing the total number of texts in Phase II to 22,971! The complete EEBO-TCP corpus (Phases I and II together) now contains 48,339 books. These new titles are already available in the University of Michigan EEBO-TCP interface, and will soon be synced to the University of Oxford platform….
Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access journal, Translating the Americas. A project of the University of Michigan Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Translating the Americas is a digital platform for the publication and open access distribution of translations of important, previously published articles and book chapters. Translating the Americas seeks to support collaborations between members of the University of Michigan faculty and overseas colleagues; to disseminate the research…
Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, the Michigan Journal of Sustainability. Published in partnership with the Graham Sustainability Institute, this journal aims to make academic research on environmental sustainability more accessible to a general audience. Volume 1 contains articles on topics such as “Clearing the Waters of the Fracking Debate,” “Are Green Cities Nice Places to Live? Examining the Link Between Urban Sustainability and Quality of…
Have you ever wondered how Michigan Publishing’s scholarly journals get online? Kelly Witchen, Michigan Publishing Digital Publishing Assistant, has put together a video tutorial unveiling the mysteries of our text conversion process—from the Word files you send us, to archival XML, to display on the Web: We hope this video will help our journal editors and publishing partners understand what happens after they send us the files for a new journal issue. Please feel free…
Curious about how your journal is being read and used? We can help with that! This summer Clayton Hayes, a practicum student from the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science, created a series of guides to help our publishing partners gain access to and make good use of the Google Analytics data we gather for all of our digital publications. Below, he tells us a bit about the process of developing these…
Michigan Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism. Publishing twice a year, this interdisciplinary publication focuses on theoretically innovative and methodologically diverse research in the fields of gender studies, masculinities, sexualities and feminism. The first issue features articles on the experiences of Mexican women in the wake of Mexico’s 2007 de-criminalization of abortion, the gendering of medical careers in Ireland, transnational experiences of women…