January 2012

Welcoming New Members of the MPublishing Team

by Meredith Kahn January 30, 2012

We are pleased to announce that Jason Colman and Jonathan McGlone will be joining Digital Publishing Production (a unit of MPublishing) as Digital Publishing Project Managers beginning January 30. Digital Publishing Production manages both the work and the relationships of ongoing digital publication projects, including journal production and publication, as well as backlist conversion for ...

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Press Author Jill Dolan Wins Prestigious George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism

by Shaun Manning January 27, 2012

Congratulations to Jill Dolan, author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic (1991), Presence and Desire (1994), and Utopia in Performance (2005) and editor of A Menopausal Gentleman (2011), for winning the prestigious 2011 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award, administered by Cornell University, carries a $10,000 prize and was bestowed upon Dolan ...

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ARL Releases Fair Use Best Practices

by mslevine January 26, 2012

Today the Association of Research Libraries has issued the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. It is the culmination of two years of work within the academic library community, looking at the state of actual practices regarding fair use, which explicitly supports teaching, scholarship, and research fundamental to scholarly ...

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Golan v. Holder: In Praise of Breyer’s Dissent

by mslevine January 25, 2012

With last week’s flurry of activity over SOPA/PIPA, perhaps you missed the Supreme Court’s decision in Golan v. Holder [PDF]. The opinion makes it unequivocally clear that it is well within the purview of Congress to remove works from the public domain and reinforces the Court’s opinion in Eldred regarding Congress’s authority to extend copyright ...

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Student Authors Print on the Espresso Book Machine

by terri January 25, 2012

Students from the U-M School of Information and School of Education recently authored a book entitled Information Literacy in the Wild. The book contains a collection of essays based on the students’ experiences during their field work studies for SI 641/EDCURINS 575: Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning, taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Kristin Fontichiaro. ...

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At Last: Our Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP

by rebecca January 23, 2012

In April 2011, we announced that restrictions had been lifted from around 2,200 TCP texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Within hours, we heard from many folks who were frustrated that our announcement didn’t seem to have any teeth: Although we could (and did!) distribute the raw encoded text files to anyone who asked, ...

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Wallenberg Lectures in Deep Blue

by jim o. January 20, 2012

Deep Blue has begun hosting video recordings of the Wallenberg Lectures, given in memory of University of Michigan alumnus and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg. The first batch to be made available via Deep Blue are the 2008-2010 lectures by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, journalist Lydia Cacho, and Dr. Denis Mukwege. You can find them in the Wallenberg ...

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Lathered Up About SOPA, RWA, and More

by mslevine January 17, 2012

For the moment, SOPA (HR 3261: Stop Online Piracy Act) is on hold in the wake of a remarkable response from the blogosphere, organizations, and private citizens. The bill is dense, opaque, overreaching, and probably unenforceable. It manages to put a crimp on civil liberties and fail to actually help copyright holders who really do ...

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Hair That Touches Heaven

by Shaun Manning January 17, 2012

University of Michigan Press author Bill Talen presented his unique brand of evangelism last week at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC. Previewing the event, where Talen discussed his Reverend Billy persona and recent book, The Reverend Billy Project: From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping, the Washington Post’s ...

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“Once More with Feeling”: How MLA Found its Heart

by Korey Jackson January 16, 2012

Ah, MLA. Your reputation for pre-interview angst, post-interview binging, self-important Q&A sessions, obtuseness and obscurantism has put you on many scholars’ non-grata list (at least those not professionally obligated to attend). This year, however, avoiders missed what felt like the stirrings of a sea change: the MLA’s heart (like a post-holiday Grinch) grew at least ...

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