In Publishing Services, we do our best to advocate for the broadest access to scholarship. Each year our list of open access titles grows longer, our partnerships broader, and the voices we publish stronger. With Open Access Week well under way, we thought we’d take the time to highlight some of the great open access scholarship being produced by the University of Michigan community and published by Michigan Publishing Services. Maize Books The…
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Spring has been a busy time around Michigan Publishing. Michigan Publishing Services has been hard at work preparing new journals, books, volumes, issues, and articles. In case you missed any, here is a recap of our Spring publications. New Books Hillel at Michigan, 1926/27-1945 by Andrei S. Markovits and Kenneth Garner | An in-depth analysis of the founding decades of a major Hillel chapter and study of the organization’s challenges trying to represent all Jewish students…
Michigan Publishing is proud to announce the addition of Media Industries, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide, to our journals program. First launched in 2014, Media Industries was established to fill a void for scholars seeking to understand the significance of transformations in the media landscape. Today, the journal remains a critical venue dedicated to the rich and diverse literature emerging in the field of media…
“As of this writing, the future is murky,” Jessica Litman begins the final chapter of Digital Copyright, first published in 2001. “A wholesale reconceptualization of copyright law seems unlikely. Inertia may be the most powerful of all natural forces.” This was the beginning of what some were calling the Digital Millennium. In 1998, Congress had passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a book length piece of legislation designed to enhance the legal and technological control of copyright… Michigan Publishing is proud to announce the inaugural volume of Dialectic, a scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design and the official journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Educators Community. Dialectic seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engaged both inside and outside the classroom. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of…