In celebration of Open Access Week, let’s take a moment to review how MPublishing is contributing to the Open Access movement at the University of Michigan and beyond. What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) is a way of publishing scholarly literature online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (see Peter Suber’s more detailed overview here). Its success obviously depends on the consent of authors and copyright-holders. But more broadly than…
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We’re excited to announce the open-access version of Hacking the Academy, The Edited Volume. The volume is forthcoming in print under the University of Michigan Press digitalculturebooks imprint. Hacking the Academy was assembled and edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt from the best of over 300 submissions on how the academy could be beneficially reformed using digital media and technology.
University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda, along with coauthor Joseph Esposito, recently composed a piece for the Scholarly Kitchen blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing on what they see as a new form of born-digital publications: the rebirth of the pamphlet-length, peer-reviewed piece, which is currently awkward in print (too long for a journal article, too short for a book). The entry is entitled “Through the Wormhole: A new format for the born-digital…
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…