In partnership with the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, we are proud to announce the release of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia, documenting the experiences of 50 diverse communities in the United States in fall 1918 and winter 1919 when influenza took the lives of an estimated 675,000 Americans. The encyclopedia contains more than 50,000 digitized pages–correspondence, minutes of organization and group meetings, reports from agencies and…
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Chuck Severance’s popular textbook Python for Informatics is now available in an iPad edition. Staff in MPublishing worked with Dr. Chuck to convert the book’s contents for the iPad, which allowed us to add a number of new features. Each chapter now includes a lecture from Dr. Chuck, explanatory videos for exercises, and quizzes: The iPad edition also includes a glossary as well as typographic…
While campus was quiet and coffee shops were empty, here at MPublishing we were hard at work on a number of projects. One of those efforts was a collaboration with colleagues to improve or create new LibGuides on a range of topics. Our guides now include: Copyright Basics – an introduction to copyright, fair use, and using copyrighted material Obtaining Copyright Permissions – an in-depth guide to obtaining permission to use material in a variety of media…
While many of our journals are online-only publications, sometimes readers still want the ability to print articles in order to facilitate deeper engagement and long-form reading. Though they can certainly print a copy of the web version of an article, a version typeset for print is more attractive and easier to use in hard copy. Some of our publishing partners already create a typeset version of their publications. Others, however, lack the resources or expertise…
In April, we announced a project to create a new publishing platform for journal content. The project—now known as mPach—will be a package of tools to enable the publication of open-access journals directly into HathiTrust, as well as allow for integration of popular journal publishing tools such as Open Journal Systems (OJS). MPublishing’s Kevin Hawkins recently gave an invited presentation to staff at the headquarters of the American Theological Library Association on HathiTrust, MPublishing, and mPach. Kevin’s slides are available online,…
The latest book from Open Humanities Press is now available to read online, download, or purchase. The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies by John Carlos Rowe asks important questions about the role of public intellectuals, cultural critics, and the discipline of American Studies itself in today’s media environment. John Carlos Rowe is the USC Associates Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of…
Philosopher’s Imprint, the free online philosophy journal, released it’s 100th article last week! That article is “Inner and Outer Truth” by Iris Einheuser. The Imprint is one of the first serials published by MPublishing. It was founded in the spirit of the open access movement, which–broadly–seeks to make scholarship more widely available outside traditional publishing models, as well as promoting a future in which funds currently spent on journal subscriptions are redirected to the electronic dissemination of scholarship…
After much consideration, Maria Bonn has decided not to return as our Associate University Librarian for Publishing. As many of you know, Maria spent the last year recovering from an accident, and Paul Courant, Dean of the University Library, has been serving as the interim AUL for Publishing. Maria was a driving force in the development of MPublishing, and her vision helped us immeasurably in our mission to provide innovative publishing services and products for…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the release of Human Figurations, a new journal supported and sponsored by the Norbert Elias Foundation. Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his theory of ‘civilizing processes’, but his ambitious vision for the scope of the social sciences extended to the whole development of human society from its earliest origins, including the long-term growth of knowledge and the sciences. Elias…
The Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing are pleased to announce the launch of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC). The Collaborative has two dimensions: it is a book series that will publish born-digital and digitally enhanced texts focused on the intersections between technologies and communications (teaching, writing, reading) and the social, aesthetic, and political contexts where these occur; it is also a community web space by and…