“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou We’re highlighting some of our autobiographies this holiday season, including “The Martian’s Daughter”–the life of Marina Von Neumann-Whitman, daughter of one of the greatest scientific geniuses of the 20th century–and “Music is my Life”, in which Daniel Stein examines the autobiographical writing of Louis Armstrong for the…
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We’re proud to announce the latest title from digitalculturebooks, Andrew Herscher’s The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility. The Guide documents art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces,…
We at the Digital Publishing Production unit of MPublishing work with publishing partners at the University of Michigan and around the world to increase access to new and existing academic work. Here’s what’s new for the month of October: Nineteen new and updated articles in ARKIVOC, the free online journal for organic chemistry. Feminist Studies published issue 38.2. From the abstract, “Authors in this issue take up what we call the politics of history and recovery across a…
Continuing our celebration of Open Access Week, we are excited to announce the release of two more titles from Open Humanities Press: New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin Series: New Metaphysics Terror, Theory and the Humanities edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan Series: Critical Climate Change Open Humanities Press is an international Open Access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed…
In partnership with the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, we are proud to announce the release of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia, documenting the experiences of 50 diverse communities in the United States in fall 1918 and winter 1919 when influenza took the lives of an estimated 675,000 Americans. The encyclopedia contains more than 50,000 digitized pages–correspondence, minutes of organization and group meetings, reports from agencies and…
September was an exciting month for new releases in MPublishing: Dr. Chuck Severance’s Python for Informatics in iBooks, a new issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and the launch of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia. As if that weren’t enough, here is what else we released in September: The Journal of Anthropological Research released issue 68.3. This issue features seventeen book reviews, in addition to seven new articles. This publication is available in full to subscribers only, but…
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, MPublishing’s flagship journal, is now available. According to the Editor’s Note, “The emergent theme of this issue is practicality: these are case studies and field research about publishing partnerships, file formats, and tools that publishing professionals can use to make the most of the resources they have at hand.” This issue includes the following pieces: “Refurbishing the Camelot of Scholarship: How to Improve the Digital Contribution…
We are proud to announce that Dr. Chuck Severance’s popular textbook Python for Informatics is now available in an iPad edition. Staff in MPublishing worked with Dr. Chuck to convert the book’s contents for the iPad, which allowed us to add a number of new features. Each chapter now includes a lecture from Dr. Chuck, explanatory videos for exercises, and quizzes: The iPad edition also includes a glossary as well as typographic…
Summer has almost come to an end. We’re excited to welcome students back to campus, as well as welcoming a new journal: We are excited to announce the release of a new MPublishing-hosted journal, Music and Politics. Published since 2007 and edited by Patricia Hall (Professor and Chair of Music Theory at the UM School of Music Theatre and Dance, Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published twice annually. Rich with audio and visual examples…
It’s been a fairly quiet month at MPublishing as we head into the dog days of summer. Here’s what we’ve released so far this summer: Human Figurations released Issue 2 of Volume 1, featuring new articles and book reviews. Human Figurations, a journal on sociology and other disciplines, is one of our newest publications. Philosophy & Theory in Biology–the peer-reviewed open access online journal–released issue 4.4, which includes four new articles. The PTB site also got…