The Publishing Services & Outreach group of MPublishing is delighted to welcome two new librarians to its ranks. Meredith Kahn is our new Publishing Services & Outreach Librarian. In this role, Meredith will develop, manage, and promote new and existing publishing services to meet the needs of the University of Michigan community and beyond. She looks forward to productive and fulfilling collaboration with fellow librarians and faculty members on campus. Prior to joining MLibrary, Meredith…
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We’re excited to announce the open-access version of Hacking the Academy, The Edited Volume. The volume is forthcoming in print under the University of Michigan Press digitalculturebooks imprint. Hacking the Academy was assembled and edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt from the best of over 300 submissions on how the academy could be beneficially reformed using digital media and technology.
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available online. Guest-edited by Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production here at MPublishing, this issue features seven articles on the theme of standards in the publishing industry. In addition, the issue includes a book review and a detailed follow-up to a widely-read study published in JEP last year, The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales. The contents of the…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new open access journal, Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts. Fragments will provide a forum for dialogue and exchange between scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences who study the premodern world. The journal encourages scholars to pursue subjects of broad interest to colleagues working in other places and times, and to pursue comparative and connective approaches in…
Ari Friedlander, who has been Outreach Coordinator for the Text Creation Partnership since July 2010, has accepted the position of Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. For the last year, Ari has served as the face of the TCP, representing our work to current and future partners, writing press releases and blog posts, presenting at conferences, raising money to keep the TCP going, and of course, persistently building up…
HASTAC has issued a call for proposals for the 2011 HASTAC V Conference. The theme this year is digital scholarly communication: the topics they seek include (among other things) copyright challenges, expanding the digital arts to include humanities (and vice-versa), new forms of research in the digital humanities, and strategies for digital scholarly communication. MPublishing’s own Phil Pochoda, Director of the UMichigan Press, is being hosted by the Institute for the Humanities as one of…
Shana Kimball, head of publishing services, outreach, & strategic development for MPublishing, recently spoke at the 2011 KIT (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)/CLIR (Council of Library and Information Resources) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science. This annual event, which focuses on the role of IT in enhancing the educational role of research libraries, brings five leaders in LIS from the US to Kanazawa, Japan, to share their perspectives with a Japanese audience. This year’s other…
Are you interested in how copyright affects your professional life? Do you miss the fun and welcoming atmosphere of summer camp? Then plan to join MPublishing at Copyright Camp, where we’ll provide a forum to discuss copyright and how it affects you on a daily basis. Copyright Camp will be an unconference-style event with an introductory plenary by Deborah Wythe, Director of the Brooklyn Museum’s Digital Collections and open access pioneer. This event is free…
There are potentially thousands of “orphan works” in the U-M Library collection that are in-copyright, digitized, and preserved works in the HathiTrust Digital Library–yet remain unavailable because copyright holders cannot be found or contacted. The Orphan Works Project, which began last month, has just announced that U-M Library will make any identified orphan works available to U-M Library users via the HathiTrust so that they are searchable, viewable, and accessible. From the press release: The…
Yesterday, the Text Creation Partnership, a division of MPublishing, announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Produced by Gale, part of Cengage Learning, ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The 2,231 keyed texts were produced in collaboration…