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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Spring has been a busy time around Michigan Publishing. Michigan Publishing Services has been hard at work preparing new journals, books, volumes, issues, and articles. In case you missed any, here is a recap of our Spring publications. New Books Hillel at Michigan, 1926/27-1945 by Andrei S. Markovits and Kenneth Garner | An in-depth analysis of the founding decades of a major Hillel chapter and study of the organization’s challenges trying to represent all Jewish students…
“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…
Michigan Publishing is proud to partner with the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) to publish Integrating Family Planning into Medical Education: A Case Study of St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), Addis Ababa. This case study chronicles the integration of pre-service training in contraception and comprehensive abortion care into the medical school and OBGYN residency training program at SPHMMC. It showcases the key elements that were crucial in the successful implementation of…
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…
We are proud to announce two new additions to our Maize Books imprint, Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television, by Amanda D. Lotz, and Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader, by Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson. Life Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, written in collaboration or solo, and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions to their five edited…
We released the following publications throughout September: Journal of Muslim Mental Health Volume 10.1 Michigan Journal of Sustainability Volume 4 Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems Volume 4 Film Criticism – 2 new reviews Philosophers’ Imprint – 4 new articles Diderot Encyclopedia – 39 new translations released
It’s been a busy summer for Michigan Publishing Services! Over the last three months, we published the following publications: JUNE Journals Film Criticism Vol 40.2 Michigan Botanist – 3 New Issues Diderot Encyclopedia Project – 17 new translations added Philosophers’ Imprint – 3 new articles Philosophy & Theory in Biology – 1 new article Books Launched the CRMS Toolkit JULY Journals Human Figurations Vol 5.2 Philosophers’ Imprint – 3 new articles Film Criticism – 6…
Michigan Publishing is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural volume of the Michigan Journal of Medicine (MJM), an open access journal of University of Michigan Medical School student-led research, edited by students for the global research community and produced and published in collaboration with Michigan Publishing, part of the University of Michigan Library. On May 11, 2016, MJM celebrated its launch at the Medical School with a reception led by Jasna Markovac, senior director for learning design and…
May: Saksaha Vol 13 Ergo – 4 New Articles Michigan Journal of Medicine Vol 1 Trans Asia Photography Review Volume 6.2 Music & Politics Volume 10.1 Diderot Encyclopedia – 16 New Translations Film Criticism – 3 New Reviews Western Society of French History Vol 42 April: Film Criticism – 2 New Reviews Philosophy & Theory in Biology – Vol 8, 2 new articles Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 54.3 Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Volume 21.2 Michigan…