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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. …
Or, Remembering Aaron Swartz Note: This post is published in collaboration with Scholastica and Academic-Led Publishing Day. I work as the journals coordinator for Michigan Publishing, but I am also an academic. I am a critic, reviewer, and editor trained in literary and cultural studies; my specializations are in science fiction, comics, and popular culture broadly. Much of my research tries to think about how popular texts enact (or subvert) radical politics of social justice,…
From our Director of Sales and Marketing, Lanell White: Next week the Charleston Library Conference will welcome librarians, publishers, and vendor partners to Charleston, S.C. to discuss the key issues, topics, and innovations in scholarly communications. This year the theme of “Oh wind – if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” embodies a sense of anticipation around transitions not only between seasons, but also the sea change happening around ebook distribution models, namely…
University of Michigan Press (UMP) is pleased to introduce two new staff members. Lanell White will join University of Michigan Press as its new Sales and Marketing Director on September 4. Lanell’s deep experience in digital strategy, institutional sales, and market analysis includes roles as director of client relations and sales at publishing technology provider Redlink; product manager and market development manager at ProQuest; and senior analyst positions at consultancy providers Outsell and Foresee. She looks…
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…
We’ve added a new tool to the University of Michigan Press website — “Dimensions badges” that give an indication of how many times our different books have been cited over the years. Created by our friends at Digital Science, whose Altmetric for Books tool we’ve been using for several years, Dimensions badges are interactive visualizations that showcase citation data for individual publications. Now on the UMP website you’ll find them attached to every book for…
The Deep Blue document repository provides worldwide, free access to some of the best research U-M has to offer. As part of Michigan Publishing (the publishing division of the U-M Library) it provides a trusted hosting option for University of Michigan faculty members and graduate students who wish to make their work discoverable and citable over the long term. In 2017 the 115,000 items in Deep Blue documents were downloaded 10.8 million times. As Deep…
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…
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…
Michigan Publishing is proud to announce the addition of Media Industries, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide, to our journals program. First launched in 2014, Media Industries was established to fill a void for scholars seeking to understand the significance of transformations in the media landscape. Today, the journal remains a critical venue dedicated to the rich and diverse literature emerging in the field of media…