How does an invisible system shape the experience of an end user? I found myself pondering this question again and again throughout the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which took place November 20-21. This event is jointly sponsored each year by Northwestern University, Loyola University, University of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. This year, Loyola University hosted the colloquium at its Water Tower campus. Some papers explicitly asked us to look…
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MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing. JEP 14.2 is a special issue that gathers together poets, professors, publishers and programmers to reflect and report on the impact of digital technologies—from Blogger and Twitter to Perl and video games—on writing, publishing, and understanding poetry. The issue was guest-edited by Aaron McCollough, librarian for English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature here at the University of…
July and August were fairly quiet months for MPublishing, with a few journal issues coming out as we did our best to keep cool in the heat and launch a new publication or two. Here’s what’s new from the end of the summer: ARKIVOC, the open access organic chemistry journal, published more than 20 new articles. Articles from ARKIVOC are freely available for all to read or download. A new issue of the Journal of…
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available online. Guest-edited by Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production here at MPublishing, this issue features seven articles on the theme of standards in the publishing industry. In addition, the issue includes a book review and a detailed follow-up to a widely-read study published in JEP last year, The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales. The contents of the…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new open access journal, Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts. Fragments will provide a forum for dialogue and exchange between scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences who study the premodern world. The journal encourages scholars to pursue subjects of broad interest to colleagues working in other places and times, and to pursue comparative and connective approaches in…
On July 18, the JISC Digitisation Programme published a thought-provoking blog post about the growing number of platforms and portals through which users can access (and potentially edit) digital resources, such as those produced by the TCP. The post asks, If there are multiple versions of the original content, then which one is the one you use? In fact it’s not only about the content. Which platform works quickest? Which gives the most ‘accurate’ search…
June saw a flurry of new content released across disciplines, genres, and publishing models. Here’s what’s new halfway through 2011: ARKIVOC, an online journal of organic chemistry, published 19 articles in June. This open access journal, hosted at MPublishing since 2009, is published by ARKAT USA, and has recently undertaken a publishing partnership with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia that will help to sustain this publication into the future. Michigan Quarterly Review 49.4 became available…
MPublishing has hosted the online version of Feminist Studies since 2009. This journal publishes research and criticism that address theoretical issues and offer analyses of interest to feminist scholars across disciplines. It features theoretically sophisticated essays that make an original contribution and advance interdisciplinary scholarship regarding women and/or gender. This week, the amount of Feminist Studies content that we make available online increased dramatically: we just released thirty years worth of back content (1972-2002), or 1,117 previously…
MPublishing is pleased to announce a new open access book series, Groves Monographs on Marriage and Family. This annual edited series is based on the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, which focuses on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field of family studies. The first volume, Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice for All Families, draws on material from the 2007 Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, which was held in Detroit….
May was a busy month–here’s what’s new at MPublishing: The second issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review was published at the beginning of the month. In collaboration with Hampshire College, we launched this open access journal last September. The second issue continues to highlight both the history and the current state of photography in Asia. This issue includes essays, such as “John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923) — Pioneer Photographer in Japan,” curatorial projects (selections of photography…