MPublishing has hosted the online version of Feminist Studies since 2009. This journal publishes research and criticism that address theoretical issues and offer analyses of interest to feminist scholars across disciplines. It features theoretically sophisticated essays that make an original contribution and advance interdisciplinary scholarship regarding women and/or gender. This week, the amount of Feminist Studies content that we make available online increased dramatically: we just released thirty years worth of back content (1972-2002), or 1,117 previously…
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MPublishing is pleased to announce a new open access book series, Groves Monographs on Marriage and Family. This annual edited series is based on the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, which focuses on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field of family studies. The first volume, Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice for All Families, draws on material from the 2007 Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, which was held in Detroit….
May was a busy month–here’s what’s new at MPublishing: The second issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review was published at the beginning of the month. In collaboration with Hampshire College, we launched this open access journal last September. The second issue continues to highlight both the history and the current state of photography in Asia. This issue includes essays, such as “John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923) — Pioneer Photographer in Japan,” curatorial projects (selections of photography…
Four titles in our imprint, digitalculturebooks, have just been made available to view for free online through Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC-ND): Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics, by Jennifer Gabrys The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life, by David Buckingham, Maria Pini, and Rebeckah Willett The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through…
April is always a time of transition for MPublishing, as members of our hardworking student staff trade in their keyboards for mortarboards and leave us behind. These students do much of the day-to-day work of converting our publications to standard formats–XML and TIFF–for publication online in the DLXS infrastructure used by the U-M Library. Below is a summary of their most recent projects, all new content released in the last month: Arkivoc, the open access…
Yesterday, the Text Creation Partnership, a division of MPublishing, announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Produced by Gale, part of Cengage Learning, ECCO is an important research database that includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The 2,231 keyed texts were produced in collaboration…
Spring has sprung, and many of our many of our quarterly and tri-annual journals are publishing their first issues of the year around this time. We also had some exciting updates, new releases, and redesigns last month. Here’s what’s new from MPublishing: ARKIVOC, the journal of organic chemistry, had 17 new articles posted in March. Michigan Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary feminist journal published by graduate students at the University of Michigan whose 3 most…
MPublishing and the Michigan Botanical Club (MBC) are pleased to announce the launch of an online, open-access version of The Michigan Botanist, the peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by MBC since 1962. This is the first time the full text of the journal has been made available online. The Michigan Botanist is devoted to all aspects of plant life in the Great Lakes Region. “Peer-reviewed papers published in The Michigan Botanist include contributions of all sorts ranging from ecology to…
The snow is melting, and new scholarly literature is blooming in the Digital Publishing Production unit! Check out our new releases from the month of February: As always, the open access organic chemistry journal Arkivoc has been very productive, publishing 21 new articles in the last month Volume 8 of Contemporary Aesthetics was released. This journal, an international, interdisciplinary, peer- and blind-reviewed journal on aesthetics, publishes online on a rolling basis throughout the year. At the…
University of Michigan Press writer Margaret Price, author of the new book Mad at School, recently appeared in an extensive story about mental disabilities on university campuses posted by the Chronicle of Higher Education. In the article, professor and author Benjamin Reiss writes, “Margaret Price makes clear in her book, Mad at School, influential voices are arguing that we should try to get around the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regulations, which protect the…