MPublishing works in close collaboration with scholars, and we are saddened to announce the loss of a longtime partner and advocate on April 2. Richard W. Bailey, professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, published six monographs with the University of Michigan Press during his career. He also co-created an online-only scholarly edition of an Early Modern text, A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563 by Henry Machyn, published jointly by the University…
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MPublishing and the Michigan Botanical Club (MBC) are pleased to announce the launch of an online, open-access version of The Michigan Botanist, the peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by MBC since 1962. This is the first time the full text of the journal has been made available online. The Michigan Botanist is devoted to all aspects of plant life in the Great Lakes Region. “Peer-reviewed papers published in The Michigan Botanist include contributions of all sorts ranging from ecology to…
By Jeremy Morse, Head, Publishing Technology Group We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Beers joined the Publishing Technology Group (PTG) as our new Web Developer on Febraury 28. Elizabeth graduated with an MSLIS from the University of Illinois. She has most recently worked at the Kresge Library of the Ross School of Business, doing development and usability testing for their website; previously, she had served as Reference/Technology Librarian at George Washington University. We look forward…
The Copyright Office has wonderful news to share with you. First, TWO Copyright Office interns were selected for this summer’s highly selective Google Policy Fellowship program, Jessie Mannisto and Liz Allen. Jessie Mannisto, who interned with us in the summer of 2010, has been accepted as a Google Policy Fellow at the American Library Association‘s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). The OITP “advances ALA’s public policy activities by helping secure information technology policies that…
We’re pleased to share two pieces of news regarding the professional activities of MPublishing staff: Karen Hill, Assistant Director of the University of Michigan Press has been named to a three year term on Project Muse’s inaugural Book Publishing Working Group. The group will provide Project Muse with input on initiatives and developments especially as they relate to Ebook publishing. Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Office, has been accepted into the 2011 class of the Frye…
Welcome to the blog of MPublishing! MPublishing is the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, part of its dynamic and innovative university library. We are a group of publishers, librarians and technologists, working together to support scholarly communication and to publish and preserve the scholarly record. As an organization, we focus on three things: education and advocacy on issues pertinent to scholarly communication, from authors rights to the economics of publishing to…
December was a busy month for the Digital Publishing Production group, as many of our publishing partners released a final issue or article before the end of the year. GEFAME, an open access journal promoting research in the field of African Studies, published their seventh volume. The new release features a report on research in progress by Moses Ochonu called “‘Village’ Democracy and Development in Dutse, Nigeria.” The Journal of Anthropological Research published their fourth…
For many years, the Scholarly Publishing Office (now part of MPublishing) has hosted a collaborative project to translate the Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert, an 18th-century work of French scholarship, consisting in its original form of more than 70,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors. The last couple of years have brought about some exciting changes for this ongoing project. Among them are: Sean Takats (George Mason University) has joined the project team, whose…
The second issue in volume 16 of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) has been released today. The new issue includes six articles and two book reviews. MJCSL is a national, peer-reviewed journal comprised of contributions relating to academic service learning in higher education from authors representing a wide range of academic backgrounds and professions. Recently, MJCSL has expanded its publishing scope to include articles about campus-community partnerships, and faculty engaged scholarship. Past…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new resource, Contemporary Aesthetics. Contemporary Aesthetics is an international, interdisciplinary, peer- and blind-reviewed online journal of contemporary theory, research, and application in the area of aesthetics. The journal has published independently online since 2003–and will continue to do so–but has partnered with MPublishing in the last year to produce a new, freely available, fully searchable and browsable archive of volumes 1-7 (2003-2009). New volumes will be…