The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan are happy to announce a new publishing partnership. Beginning in Fall 2020, Michigan Publishing will take over publishing and distribution of SCMS’s flagship journal JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, which will remain available via Project Muse, and sustain and develop its open access satellite publications, including Archival News, Professional Notes, and the Aca-Media podcast. …
University of Michigan Press (UMP) is pleased to introduce two new staff members. Lanell White will join University of Michigan Press as its new Sales and Marketing Director on September 4. Lanell’s deep experience in digital strategy, institutional sales, and market analysis includes roles as director of client relations and sales at publishing technology provider Redlink; product manager and market development manager at ProQuest; and senior analyst positions at consultancy providers Outsell and Foresee. She looks…
Michigan Publishing (MP), including University of Michigan Press (UMP), is pleased to announce a collaboration with Hypothesis to bring annotation to our new e-book platform Fulcrum, scheduled for an early 2019 public release. Having experimented with annotation on DigitalCultureBooks imprint in 2015 and, having hosted a number of community events around annotation, we are now ready for a more extensive partnership to give authors a way to update their works, link to other sites or…
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…