Check out the latest from MPublishing’s more than 25 serial publications: More than 25 new articles on organic chemistry published in ARKIVOC. Philosophy and Theory in Biology, an open access journal that launched just about one year ago, published its 8th article, “Beyond Inclusive Fitness? On A Simple and General Explanation For The Evolution Of Altruism“ Philosopher’s Imprint published a paper on “Lying and Deception.” A special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, guest…
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Throughout the year, the Digital Publishing Production unit of MPublishing works with publishing partners at the University of Michigan and around the world to increase access to new and existing academic work. Below is a summary of what we’ve been up to in the last month: Our work with Arkivoc, the open access organic chemistry journal, is ongoing. This publication produces new content weekly, and more than a dozen articles were released this month. We…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new resource, Contemporary Aesthetics. Contemporary Aesthetics is an international, interdisciplinary, peer- and blind-reviewed online journal of contemporary theory, research, and application in the area of aesthetics. The journal has published independently online since 2003–and will continue to do so–but has partnered with MPublishing in the last year to produce a new, freely available, fully searchable and browsable archive of volumes 1-7 (2003-2009). New volumes will be…
The third issue in volume 66 of the Journal of Anthropological Research has now been published online. The issue features four scholarly articles and 30 reviews of newly published resources. Two of the articles focus on the culture of Pueblo Indian culture in the American southwest. The third discusses pottery production in Jordan and the fourth, the myth of “selfhood” in the context of raising a child in middle class America. Based at the University…
Feminist Studies published a new issue online today: “Re-inventing Mothers: A Special Issue.” According to the editors, “Throughout this issue of Feminist Studies, with its attention chiefly on new reproductive technologies and changing patterns of motherhood, differences between women according to nationality, ‘race’/ethnicity, and social class clearly structure women’s life trajectories.” The issue features five new scholarly articles, as well as fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, an art essay, and a review essay. Published in print…
Minor Tweaks, Major Payoffs: The Problems and Promise of Situationism in Moral Philosophy, by Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College, CUNY) was published in Philosopher’s Imprint today. According to the author, Moral philosophers of late have been examining the implications of experimental social psychology for ethics. The focus of attention has been on situationism—the thesis that we routinely underestimate the extent to which minor situational variables influence morally significant behavior. Situationism has been seen as a threat…
We’re pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review, an international, refereed, open-access journal published in collaboration between Hampshire College and the University of Michigan Library. The TAP Review is devoted to the discussion of historic and contemporary photography from Asia. The inaugural issue features a wide range of content, including: A forum of 13 scholars, artists, and thinkers responding to the question, “Why Asian Photography?” Articles on the…
A new article was published today in Philosophy & Theory in Biology: Evolutionary Chance Mutation: A Defense of the Modern Synthesis’ Consensus View, by Francesca Merlin, University of Montréal. According to the article’s abstract, One central tenet of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (1930s-1950s), and the consensus view among biologists until now, is that all genetic mutations occur by “chance” or at “random” with respect to adaptation. However, the discovery of some molecular mechanisms enhancing mutation…
Philosopher’s Imprint, one of SPO’s longest running open access journals, published two new articles today. “Ceteris Paribus Laws: Generics and Natural Kinds,” by Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University and “PSR,” by Michael Della Rocca, Yale University. Philosophers’ Imprint is a refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by Stephen Darwall and J. David Velleman, with the advice of an international Board of Editors. The Imprint is not restricted to any particular field or school of…
Stephen W. Salant, professor of economics at University of Michigan, is the creator of Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study, recently published by SPO. The project features a new analysis of the controversial case against Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department official suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, and ultimately convicted of perjury in 1950. Professor Salant shared with us the history of his work on this case, and his perspective on how his…