April 2011

MPublishing Staff to Present at Enriching Scholarship Conference

by admin April 28, 2011

Next week, May 2-6, the U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative will host their annual conference, Enriching Scholarship, and invite “faculty and instructional staff to enhance their teaching and research by participating in a week of free seminars, workshops, demonstrations and other events drawing upon the expertise of faculty and instructional technology specialists from across campus. Enriching Scholarship offers sessions ...

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Longer than an article, shorter than a book: UM Press director suggests (the return of) a new digital art form

by Heather April 28, 2011

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 ...

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Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th Century Texts Freely Available to the Public

by arifried April 26, 2011

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 ...

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Great Lakes 2011 THATCamp

by admin April 22, 2011

This year’s Great Lakes THATCamp is just around the corner, and MPublishing staff are busy getting ready. The Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Great Lakes THATCamp will be held on ...

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In Memory of Richard W. Bailey

by admin April 20, 2011

MPublishing works in close collaboration with scholars, and we are saddened to announce the loss of a longtime partner and advocate on April 2. Richard W. Bailey, professor emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, published six monographs with the University of Michigan Press during his career. He also co-created an ...

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MLibrary & Creative Commons: Commitment to Compatibility

by Greg Grossmeier April 13, 2011

Back in October of 2008, MLibary became one of the first academic libraries to apply a Creative Commons license to its website content. At the time, the Library opted for the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (“CC BY NC”) license. More recently, on November 18th, 2010, the library changed the default Creative Commons license used for ...

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Text Creation Partnership Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP Texts

by admin April 7, 2011

We are pleased to announce the release of 4,180 texts from the second phase of our Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project.  These texts were produced in collaboration with ProQuest, and are available immediately to EEBO-TCP Phase II partners. The entire EEBO-TCP archive is now available–anyone may search, browse, and explore the corpus.  Access ...

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March Serials Roundup

by rebecca April 6, 2011

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. ...

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Movie Showing – Copyright Criminals: Can You Own a Sound?

by Greg Grossmeier April 4, 2011

With Special Guests: Peter DiCola and Amer Ahmed When: Friday April 8th, 7 PM (come after TEDxUofM) Where: University of Michigan North Quad, room 2435 See the acclaimed film Copyright Criminals that takes a hard look at the debate over musical sampling, artistic expression, copyright law, and money. Following the movie there will be a ...

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