“Grad Student Forum on Copyright, Fair Use, and Digital Dissertations” Monday, February 24, 2014 4:00 – 6:00 pm Room 2001, LSA Building Join us for a conversation about copyright, fair use, and issues of dissertation and scholarly publishing in the digital age. All are welcome. A Grad Student’s Guide to Submitting a Digital Dissertation: You Need to Know This Sooner than You Think The transition to the digital dissertation opens new possibilities for students and…
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If you are a U-M faculty, staff member, or student who has recently received a takedown notice from Elsevier regarding research papers posted on Academia.edu, we can offer assistance with finding other mechanisms for sharing your work. Expert staff at Michigan Publishing can help you understand what rights you’ve retained in a publication agreement, where and what version of your work can be posted on personal and third-party websites, and how Deep Blue, the U-M…
In addition to individual deposits by researchers and our ongoing partnerships with Rackham Graduate School and the Honors Program for automated deposit of dissertations and theses, in recent months we’ve added significant scholarship to Deep Blue. These new additions include: Working papers from the Department of Economics Masters theses from the School of Dentistry and many other science disciplines on campus not previously included in Deep Blue A new collection for Naval Architecture and Marine…
Our own Jim Ottaviani, librarian for Deep Blue, has just published his latest book — Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. The New York Times recently reviewed Primates, and had high praise for the work of both Maris Wicks, the book’s illustrator, and Jim: “Despite the inherent challenges [of presenting three separate narratives], they succeed in conjuring the feel of extraordinary science. And they do so not by manufacturing…
Aphrodisias is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey, famous in antiquity for its sanctuary of Aphrodite and its virtuoso sculptors. Excavations at Aphrodisias have been carried out since 1961 and have revealed an unusually well-preserved and picturesque ancient town, which makes an indelible impression on visitors and brings the civic culture of the Graeco-Roman world vividly to life. In tandem with the publication of their book Aphrodisias…
Deep Blue has begun hosting video recordings of the Wallenberg Lectures, given in memory of University of Michigan alumnus and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg. The first batch to be made available via Deep Blue are the 2008-2010 lectures by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, journalist Lydia Cacho, and Dr. Denis Mukwege. You can find them in the Wallenberg Lectures collection. Each Wallenberg Medal Recipient and Lecturer is selected because he or she exemplifies heroism, courage, self-sacrifice, and integrity….
Deep Blue has begun to formally host content from the Bentley Historical Library, the official archive of the University of Michigan. As a result of this new partnership, we have created a new area in Deep Blue specifically for their archival material: Archival Collections — Bentley Library. This area of Deep Blue currently hosts collections for the Computing Center, the Office of Human Resources and Affirmative Action, the Office of the Registrar, along with a Faculty…
Deep Blue has begun automatically acquiring U-M authored works published by BioMed Central (BMC) using the SWORD protocol. Our first batch batch from them added 23 items to our Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed collection. Older articles will start to flow in shortly, and from now on the articles will come to Deep Blue as they appear in BMC journals.
We recently completed an analysis of current U-M authors represented in Deep Blue. There are a lot of ways to look at the data, but the most compelling statistic is probably this one: roughly 55% of our full time professors have work in the service. (That’s 3,142 out of 5,628 as of this August.) We’re pleased with what we’ve achieved so far, and have achieved this largely because of the efforts of many members of…