In December the University of Michigan Library responded to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information on public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded research. MLibrary has now made this response available online [PDF]. In the response, Paul Courant makes a strong statement about the importance of public access to such publications: [I]t seems unthinkable that work paid for with taxpayer monies is not already freely…
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You saw Maurizio Cattelan: All at the Guggenheim. You loved it. Did you know you can get the exhibition catalogue as an e-book? And there’s an app, too! The Guggenheim recently announced the e-book version of the Cattelan catalogue, as well as an effort to make out-of-print catalogues available online. Exciting news for e-book reading art lovers! The Cattelan catalogue is available for iPad, Kindle, and Kobo at the moment, with releases for other platforms forthcoming….
Open Humanities Press (OHP) and MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML and paperback editions. In a unique collaboration, OHP, an international, scholar-run publishing collective, and MPublishing are jointly releasing the books on a rolling publication schedule beginning December 15. “We are tremendously excited with these results,” says Sigi Jöttkandt, a co-founder of…
UM Press/HASTAC Publication Prize in Digital Humanities sponsored by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities In conjunction with the University of Michigan’s hosting of the 2011 international HASTAC V conference on Digital Scholarly Communication and recentlaunch of the University of Michigan Press Series in Digital Humanities, the Press and HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) are pleased to announce the UM Press/HASTAC Publication Prize in Digital Humanities. The prize, which…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing. JEP 14.2 is a special issue that gathers together poets, professors, publishers and programmers to reflect and report on the impact of digital technologies—from Blogger and Twitter to Perl and video games—on writing, publishing, and understanding poetry. The issue was guest-edited by Aaron McCollough, librarian for English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature here at the University of…
The MPublishing team recently returned from THATCamp Publishing in Baltimore, MD. For the uninitiated, THAT (for “The Humanities and Technology”) Camp is a new breed of “unconference” attempting to move beyond the stand-and-deliver (and sit-and-listen) variety of academic conferences many of us are used to. Instead, the mission is collective discussion and concerted sharing around particular themes and with specific goals in mind. If you’d like to read participants’ notes from THATCamp Publishing, they are…
In celebration of Open Access Week, let’s take a moment to review how MPublishing is contributing to the Open Access movement at the University of Michigan and beyond. What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) is a way of publishing scholarly literature online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (see Peter Suber’s more detailed overview here). Its success obviously depends on the consent of authors and copyright-holders. But more broadly than…
Three MLibrary staff members—including two from MPublishing—have been elected to two-year terms on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium for 2012 to 2013. Paul Schaffner (Head of Encoded Text Services in MLibrary’s Digital Library Production Service) and Kevin Hawkins (Head of Digital Publishing Production for MPublishing) have both served terms previously, and they are joined by Rebecca Welzenbach (Project Outreach Librarian for the Text Creation Partnership), who will be serving her…
The University of Michigan’s fine and performing arts blog, Montage, features an overview of our collaborative translation project The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert in a recent post: “MPublishing’s Platform Creates Universal Language”. Over 250 years after Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert set out to create a compendium of all knowledge: …enabled by 21st century technology, a crowdsourced effort is underway to make English translations of Encyclopedia articles freely available to readers everywhere. The project was…
Participants at THATCamp Kansas, September 2011. Image copyright: KU Libraries. Used with permission. Kevin Hawkins and Becky Welzenbach (Head of Digital Publishing Production and TCP Outreach Librarian, respectively, here at MPublishing) have been offering a workshop on “Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI.” The course, which covers everything from basic Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to discussions about the wide application of digital scholarly editions, has been popular among librarians and humanities scholars here…