The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan are happy to announce a new publishing partnership. Beginning in Fall 2020, Michigan Publishing will take over publishing and distribution of SCMS’s flagship journal JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, which will remain available via Project Muse, and sustain and develop its open access satellite publications, including Archival News, Professional Notes, and the Aca-Media podcast. …
Michigan Publishing (MP), including University of Michigan Press (UMP), is pleased to announce a collaboration with Hypothesis to bring annotation to our new e-book platform Fulcrum, scheduled for an early 2019 public release. Having experimented with annotation on DigitalCultureBooks imprint in 2015 and, having hosted a number of community events around annotation, we are now ready for a more extensive partnership to give authors a way to update their works, link to other sites or…
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…
The editors of Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning invite readers to comment on a new digital book in-progress during its open peer review phase, now through October 30th, 2013. General audiences will join four designated expert reviewers in publicly posting online commentary to shape the direction of the final manuscript, thereby making the traditionally hidden process of peer review more visible and transparent. Based on essays from twenty-five contributors,…
The Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing are pleased to announce the launch of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC). The Collaborative has two dimensions: it is a book series that will publish born-digital and digitally enhanced texts focused on the intersections between technologies and communications (teaching, writing, reading) and the social, aesthetic, and political contexts where these occur; it is also a community web space by and…
Open Humanities Press (OHP) and MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML and paperback editions. In a unique collaboration, OHP, an international, scholar-run publishing collective, and MPublishing are jointly releasing the books on a rolling publication schedule beginning December 15. “We are tremendously excited with these results,” says Sigi Jöttkandt, a co-founder of…
From the press release: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are so-called “orphans,” that is, in-copyright works whose owners cannot be identified or located. The lack of hard data on the number of orphans in the…