April 2012

Introducing jPach: A Journal Publishing Platform for HathiTrust

by Meredith Kahn April 25, 2012

Together with the HathiTrust team, MPublishing is developing a new modular, open source platform for open access journal publishing. jPach (pronounced “jay-pack”) will replace our current digital publishing system, and will hopefully serve as a model for comparable tools for other HathiTrust partner institutions. jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the ...

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Publishing, Copyright, E-Books, and More at Enriching Scholarship May 7-11, 2012

by Meredith Kahn April 20, 2012

Every year, the University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative offers an intensive week of workshops, discussions, and seminars for instructional faculty and staff. Enriching Scholarship is an amazing opportunity to learn new skills and think creatively about your teaching and scholarship. There will be a number of sessions relevant to academic publishing and scholarly ...

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CFP: “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012

by rebecca April 17, 2012

We’re excited to announce that we are seeking proposals for a conference about EEBO-TCP to be held at the University of Oxford September 17-18, 2012. The call for proposals follows, and may also be downloaded as a PDF.

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O’Reilly TOC Mini-Conference

by Alix April 13, 2012

Several MPublishing members recently returned from a mini-conference in Chicago. Jason Colman from Digital Publishing Production sums it up for us:   Along with two other MPublishing staff, I made the trek to Chicago for the O’Reilly Tools of Change Mini-Conference on April 9th. The Mini TOC made for an interesting mix of folks from ...

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MPublishing Titles Included in New “Directory of Open Access Books”

by Meredith Kahn April 12, 2012

MPublishing is pleased to be among the few dozen publishers of open-access scholarly monographs to have their openly licensed titles available in time for the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books, an initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. OAPEN hopes this directory, modeled after the Directory of Open Access Journals (in which many MPublishing ...

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The Press congratulates Peter Jeffreys, winner of the 2011 State Literary Translation Award from the Greek Ministry of Culture

by Emily April 10, 2012

Peter Jeffreys has earned a major translation award from the Greek Ministry of Culture for Selected Prose Works (2010), a collection of prose pieces by acclaimed poet C. P. Cavafy published by the University of Michigan Press.

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March Publications Round-Up

by Alix April 2, 2012

We’ve got quite a list of new publications to share with you this month: Feminist Studies published a new issue. FS 37.3 features a variety of poetry, fiction, and scholarly articles that focus on the theme of feminist histories and institutional practices. Feminist Studies is available in its entirety to subscribers, but anyone can search or browse the journal ...

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