October 2011

Author of forthcoming UM Press book selected to be Poet Laureate of Vermont

by University of Michigan Press October 31, 2011

Syndey “Syd” Lea, author of a forthcoming book from University of Michigan Press tentatively titled Hundred Himalayas, has been selected Poet Laureate of Vermont by Governer Peter Shumlin. A public ceremony honoring Lea will be held on November 4 at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Montpelier.

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MPublishing Open Access Initiatives

by Meredith Kahn October 26, 2011

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 ...

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UM Press launches #NewBooksIn5Words

by The University of Michigan Press October 24, 2011

The University of Michigan Press today announced one of the shortest marketing campaigns in the history of new books: #NewBooksIn5Words, a Twitter hashtag that accompanies micro-previews of new scholarly and trade titles. You can see the first postings at the UM Press Twitter feed. For example: Annie Finch’s A Poet’s Craft turns into: Be poet – ...

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Two MPublishing Staff Members Elected to TEI Consortium

by Alix October 19, 2011

Three MLibrary staff members—including two from MPublishing—have been elected to two-year terms on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium for 2012 to 2013.  Paul Schaffner (Head of Encoded Text Services in MLibrary’s Digital Library Production Service) and Kevin Hawkins (Head of Digital Publishing Production for MPublishing) have both served terms previously, ...

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Open Access Week Event: “User-Generated Copyright” with Molly Van Houweling

by Meredith Kahn October 12, 2011

Molly Van Houweling, U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law and former President of Creative Commons, will be speaking on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00AM in the Library Gallery, Room 100 Hatcher Graduate Library. Please join us for an engaging overview of the emerging landscape of “user-generated” copyright, as well as the role of institutions in striking a ...

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“In the Library with the Lead Pipe” on the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust

by Meredith Kahn October 12, 2011

In the Library with the Lead Pipe, a blog with consistently well written coverage of issues important to libraries and librarians, offers a thoughtful summary of the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust debacle in a recent post: As with any large membership organization, the Authors Guild operates under the guidance of a board, executive director, and ...

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Crowdsourcing Translation to Create Valuable Teaching Tools

by Meredith Kahn October 10, 2011

The University of Michigan’s fine and performing arts blog, Montage, features an overview of our collaborative translation project The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert in a recent post: “MPublishing’s Platform Creates Universal Language”. Over 250 years after Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert set out to create a compendium of all knowledge: …enabled by 21st century technology, ...

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MPublishing Staff Presenting on TEI

by Korey Jackson October 10, 2011

Participants at THATCamp Kansas, September 2011. Image copyright: KU Libraries. Used with permission. Kevin Hawkins and Becky Welzenbach (Head of Digital Publishing Production and TCP Outreach Librarian, respectively, here at MPublishing) have been offering a workshop on “Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI.” The course, which covers everything from basic Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) ...

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MPublishing welcomes Meredith Kahn and Korey Jackson

by Shana October 7, 2011

The Publishing Services & Outreach group of MPublishing is delighted to welcome two new librarians to its ranks. Meredith Kahn is our new Publishing Services & Outreach Librarian. In this role, Meredith will develop, manage, and promote new and existing publishing services to meet the needs of the University of Michigan community and beyond. She ...

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September Serials Round-Up

by kwitchen October 5, 2011

Along with welcoming students back to campus and pulling our sweaters down from the attic, we busied ourselves with the production and finalization of several new works this month. A new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review was published. Volume 50, Issue 1 features a little bit of everything, from Michael Reid Busk’s article on ...

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