In Publishing Services, we do our best to advocate for the broadest access to scholarship. Each year our list of open access titles grows longer, our partnerships broader, and the voices we publish stronger. With Open Access Week well under way, we thought we’d take the time to highlight some of the great open access scholarship being produced by the University of Michigan community and published by Michigan Publishing Services. Maize Books The…
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“As of this writing, the future is murky,” Jessica Litman begins the final chapter of Digital Copyright, first published in 2001. “A wholesale reconceptualization of copyright law seems unlikely. Inertia may be the most powerful of all natural forces.” This was the beginning of what some were calling the Digital Millennium. In 1998, Congress had passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a book length piece of legislation designed to enhance the legal and technological control of copyright…
Today, Hillel has grown into the largest Jewish campus organization in the world. But it had humble origins. Hillel at Michigan 1926/27-1945: Struggles of Jewish Identity in a Pivotal Era provides the first in-depth analysis of the founding decades of a Hillel chapter and the organization’s surprising roots in the Midwest. Following a close examination of the extant copies of the Hillel News, Markovits and Garner explore the triumphs and tribulations of an organization founded…
In 2016, Maize Books published Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue, by Nick Tobier. This week, Tobier and his newest book were featured on Living Writers, a WCBN radio program hosted by T. Hetzel. Looping Detroit is a compilation of observations made by writers and artists, invited to ride the People Mover and ruminate on one of its thirteen stops. From Grand Circus Park to Greektown to Joe Louis to Time Square and back to…