On May 4, I taught an Enriching Scholarship session called The Care and Keeping of eBooks. The title–which I made up when I proposed the session back in December–may not be the best description of what we did. The workshop was really more like “The Dissection and Creation of eBooks.” My goals were that the attendees would: better understand the place of the EPUB format in the landscape of digital publishing have a sense of…
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April is always a time of transition for MPublishing, as members of our hardworking student staff trade in their keyboards for mortarboards and leave us behind. These students do much of the day-to-day work of converting our publications to standard formats–XML and TIFF–for publication online in the DLXS infrastructure used by the U-M Library. Below is a summary of their most recent projects, all new content released in the last month: Arkivoc, the open access…
Spring has sprung, and many of our many of our quarterly and tri-annual journals are publishing their first issues of the year around this time. We also had some exciting updates, new releases, and redesigns last month. Here’s what’s new from MPublishing: ARKIVOC, the journal of organic chemistry, had 17 new articles posted in March. Michigan Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary feminist journal published by graduate students at the University of Michigan whose 3 most…
MPublishing and the Michigan Botanical Club (MBC) are pleased to announce the launch of an online, open-access version of The Michigan Botanist, the peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by MBC since 1962. This is the first time the full text of the journal has been made available online. The Michigan Botanist is devoted to all aspects of plant life in the Great Lakes Region. “Peer-reviewed papers published in The Michigan Botanist include contributions of all sorts ranging from ecology to…
The snow is melting, and new scholarly literature is blooming in the Digital Publishing Production unit! Check out our new releases from the month of February: As always, the open access organic chemistry journal Arkivoc has been very productive, publishing 21 new articles in the last month Volume 8 of Contemporary Aesthetics was released. This journal, an international, interdisciplinary, peer- and blind-reviewed journal on aesthetics, publishes online on a rolling basis throughout the year. At the…
The Digital Publishing Production group hit the ground running in 2011–as did many of our publishing partners! Check out the following new content that we released in January: The open access organic chemistry journal Arkivoc has been busy as always, publishing nearly 30 new articles this month. More than 80 newly translated articles were added to The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, an ongoing effort to crowdsource the translation of the French…
December was a busy month for the Digital Publishing Production group, as many of our publishing partners released a final issue or article before the end of the year. GEFAME, an open access journal promoting research in the field of African Studies, published their seventh volume. The new release features a report on research in progress by Moses Ochonu called “‘Village’ Democracy and Development in Dutse, Nigeria.” The Journal of Anthropological Research published their fourth…
The December 2010 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (Volume 13, Issue 3) is now available. The issue is the last to be produced under the leadership of Judith Axler Turner, who has edited the journal since its third issue appeared in 1997. As Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing, writes in a farewell to Judith, “Throughout the journal’s now fifteen-year lifetime, Judith has been its guiding hand, attentive to every detail, generous…
For many years, the Scholarly Publishing Office (now part of MPublishing) has hosted a collaborative project to translate the Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert, an 18th-century work of French scholarship, consisting in its original form of more than 70,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors. The last couple of years have brought about some exciting changes for this ongoing project. Among them are: Sean Takats (George Mason University) has joined the project team, whose…
In November, Kevin Hawkins, Paul Schaffner, and I taught the first of–we hope!–many workshops on Digital Publishing and Preservation using XML, specifically, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. The first event was targeted for students at UM’s School of Information, and we revised and reprised it a few days later for library staff, including most of the UM Press production team. The workshop was a condensed version of one that Kevin previously taught, and I…