Curious about how your journal is being read and used? We can help with that! This summer Clayton Hayes, a practicum student from the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science, created a series of guides to help our publishing partners gain access to and make good use of the Google Analytics data we gather for all of our digital publications. Below, he tells us a bit about the process of developing these…
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Looking for work as a web developer in the publishing field? Michigan Publishing is looking for you! Publishing Technology, the IT unit within Michigan Publishing, seeks an Application Programmer to design and develop a variety of software systems in support of digital scholarly publishing. This position will work in a team to create new applications for web delivery of content, and office productivity tools to enhance production workflow, as well as maintaining and improving existing…
Kevin Hawkins, director of publishing operations, has been named to NISO’s JATS Standing Committee, which will manage NISO Z39.96-2012 under Continuous Maintenance, with periodic revisions to the standard. The standard for JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, provides a common set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles, and allows publishers to exchange this content. Kevin has also been invited to be a member of the review committee…
The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, we’re proud to announce Maize Books, a new Michigan Publishing imprint. This imprint represents a lean, responsive model for publishing scholarly and creative works. We understand that scholarship can take many forms, and that traditional academic publishers aren’t always interested in items that don’t fit the typical categories of a “monograph” or…
The American Oriental Society recently awarded its Jonas Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists to Aaron Tugendhaft for his article “How to Become a Brother in the Bronze Age: An Inquiry into the Representation of Politics in Ugaritic Myth,” published in the journal Fragments. The prize is awarded every three years to a scholar under forty for the best article in any area of Semitic studies that has been published in the past two years. In awarding…
The University of Michigan, in collaboration with more than 50 other academic libraries and the Educopia Institute, has joined a two-year project (2013-2014) to create the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regarding the need for a community dedicated to advancing the field of library publishing. The University of Michigan will play an integral role in the design and implementation of…
Here in Ann Arbor, the new semester is just starting. As we settle into 2013, let’s take a moment to review some of our accomplishments in the last year… 2012 by the numbers: 23 instruction sessions on copyright, digital publishing, and scholarly communication 312 tweets from @M_Publishing 4,229 new EEBO-TCP texts published this year, bringing the total number of EEBO-TCP texts to 44,419 6,643 page views on our research guides 9,932 unique visitors to publishing.umich.edu…
After the creation of MPublishing as a formal unit in 2009, we are now taking further steps to bring together the robust publishing units at the University of Michigan, now part of the University of Michigan Library. We have now created three cross-unit departments that bring together the vast scholarly and trade publishing experience of the University of Michigan Press with the digital publishing capabilities that were part of the former Scholarly Publishing Office. These…
We are proud to announce that Alix Keener, our Digital Production Assistant here at MPublishing and an MSI student at the UM School of Information, has been awarded a DLF Forum Fellowship. The fellowship provides generous financial assistance for attendance at the DLF Fall Forum (November 3-5, 2012 in Denver, CO), an important opportunity to meet digital library professionals and learn about the latest developments in the field. Alix joined MPublishing in June 2010, and…
With Open Access Week now in full swing, we’re proud to announce that Writing History in the Digital Age has been approved for publication as part of the University of Michigan Press’s open access imprint digitalculturebooks. The collection, a born-digital, openly reviewed volume of essays about the interactions between the discipline of history and new digital tools for research and teaching, is currently available at http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu. Co-editors Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki discuss the official…