We are proud to report that Korey Jackson, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at MPublishing, was selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Early Career Award from the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). The award supports attendance at the SSP’s Annual Conference and pairs awardees with mentors in senior management positions within member organizations. As SSP President Terry Van Schaik remarked in a recent press release, “The winners of these 2012 awards, who come from…
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Along with the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection, we are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology is now available as a fully encoded online volume. Although the Proceedings has long been available online in PDF format, the entire text is now fully encoded in html. The html encoding will provide functionality far beyond the PDF version, such as: Hyperlinks are included to both endnotes and outside sources. Search…
Together with the HathiTrust team, MPublishing is developing a new modular, open source platform for open access journal publishing. jPach (pronounced “jay-pack”) will replace our current digital publishing system, and will hopefully serve as a model for comparable tools for other HathiTrust partner institutions. jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will…
MPublishing is pleased to be among the few dozen publishers of open-access scholarly monographs to have their openly licensed titles available in time for the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books, an initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. OAPEN hopes this directory, modeled after the Directory of Open Access Journals (in which many MPublishing journals are also listed), will “create a valuable resource for the scholarly community and public,” according to Eelco Ferwerda, director…
Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive visited the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library on March 14th, 2012. His talk “Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage” is now available online. The slides from his talk are also now available in Deep Blue and on Slideshare.
University of Michigan professor Andy Markovits will be awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on March 14, 2012. The Order of Merit is the highest award Germany pays to individuals in recognition of their service to the nation. Professor Markovits is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Markovits is the…
ACRL’s Digital Curation Interest Group is sponsoring a series of upcoming webinars that might be of interest to fans of digital publishing and preservation. Sessions are open to everyone, though spots are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is not required. MPublishing’s own Kevin Hawkins (head of Digital Publishing Production) will be speaking about “Digital Curation of Text” on Thursday, March 15 at 1PM EST: How is digital curation different from digital preservation? Some…
University of Michigan’s provost Phil Hanlon, along with his counterparts in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, recently expressed their support for open access in a piece for Inside Higher Ed. In their statement, the provosts of the eleven CIC institutions voiced their concerns about restrictive legislation like HR 3699 (the Research Works Act) and their disappointment in the academic publishers (Elsevier being perhaps the most talked about example, but by no means the only one)…
UPDATE: Please note that as of 5/1/2016, the Library no longer offers the EBM service. This post is retained for archival purposes only. Over the holiday break, the University of Michigan Library installed a new, state-of-the-art Espresso Book Machine (EBM). The new machine replaces our previous 1.5 beta machine, and offers several important advantages, including increased printing speed (from 33 ppm to 110 ppm), higher quality output, local service support, the ability to bind higher…
We are pleased to announce that Jason Colman and Jonathan McGlone will be joining Digital Publishing Production (a unit of MPublishing) as Digital Publishing Project Managers beginning January 30. Digital Publishing Production manages both the work and the relationships of ongoing digital publication projects, including journal production and publication, as well as backlist conversion for ACLS Humanities e-books and the University of Michigan Press. The DPP team is also involved in the work of planning…