Are you a graduate student? Does the idea of publishing your work leave you feeling nervous or unsure of what to do? Please join us for “Publish, Not Perish: Tools for Success,” a series of workshops during the fall and winter semesters that will help you navigate the challenges every new academic author faces, including understanding copyright, sharing your research and teaching materials effectively, establishing a professional presence online, considering when to start publishing, selecting…
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Are you a University of Michigan faculty member or a post-doc interested in transforming a manuscript into a successful book project with an academic publisher or university press? Rebecca Sestili, the Author-Publisher Liaison (APL), demystifies the publication process and provides assistance as you navigate from proposal to publication. The APL offers guidance on such aspects as preparing a prospectus, approaching acquisitions editors, identifying the market, and understanding subventions, permissions, and contract terms. Rebecca will be…
Every year, the University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative offers an intensive week of workshops, discussions, and seminars for instructional faculty and staff. Enriching Scholarship is an amazing opportunity to learn new skills and think creatively about your teaching and scholarship. There will be a number of sessions relevant to academic publishing and scholarly communication this year, focusing on topics like alternatives to traditional publishing models, open access, copyright, creating your own e-books, working…
Just a quick announcement that the inaugural meeting of the Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (digSIG) will be held in North Quad Room 2435 on today, March 26th from 4-5:30pm. This will be an excellent opportunity for interested members of the U-M library community and other university departments to share ideas and meet with faculty from the recent LSA Digital Enviroments Cluster Hire (Megan Ankerson from Communication Studies, Finn Brunton from the School of Information,…
Peter Brantley: “Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage” Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Library Gallery, Room 100 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Peter Brantley will discuss today’s changing publishing environment, and why actions of publishers are rational, even as they threaten to destroy traditional models of library book lending. Brantley will also offer a few conjectures about library responses to these changes: In an incredibly short period of time, control…
Join us this Thursday, March 8 for a lunchtime screening of “Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia.” This 2010 documentary film covers the history and influence of Wikipedia and asks questions about truth, neutrality, accuracy, and knowledge in the age of collaborative editing. “Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia” Thursday, March 8 12:00PM – 1:30PM 2160 Shapiro Undergraduate Library This event is sponsored by the U-M Library, Open.Michigan, and Michigan Wikipedians in celebration of…
Story Collider, a live show and podcast about science, is coming to Ann Arbor. Story Collider is an evening of personal stories about science in a relaxed setting–think The Moth, but for science. This session will focus on “openness” (open source, open science, open everything). Date & time: January 26, 2012 @ 7PM Where: BTB Cantina, 1140 South University Sponsored by: Ann Arbor District Library, Open.Michigan, and the Medical School Office of Enabling Technologies For more information…
Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off HASTAC V, sponsored by the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. The first event associated with the conference is a public lecture by artist Paul Kaiser, a pioneer in the use of 3D rendering, motion capture, and artificial intelligence in digital art. Friday and Saturday are packed with engaging speakers, tours, and demos. For the complete program, see here. Registration is still available on site, and attendance at sessions (does…
Molly Van Houweling, U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law and former President of Creative Commons, will be speaking on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00AM in the Library Gallery, Room 100 Hatcher Graduate Library. Please join us for an engaging overview of the emerging landscape of “user-generated” copyright, as well as the role of institutions in striking a balance between authorial autonomy and creative re-use. For more information, see MLibrary Events. This event is in celebration of the…
July 29 marked the second MPublishing Copyright Camp – this year with Deborah Wythe of the Brooklyn Museum. Copyright Camp is MPublishing’s way of making copyright fun, and we’ve had the great benefit of working with the great team at Open.Michigan on these events. What is Copyright Camp? On the last Friday of July we invite a speaker to discuss some aspect of copyright then break into informal discussion groups that allow copyright experts to mix and…