May 2012

EEBO-TCP Update at ALA Annual

by rebecca May 30, 2012

It has been several years since the Text Creation Partnership has held an update at the American Library Association’s Annual Meeting, and we look forward to reviving the tradition this June. If you will be in Anaheim, we hope you will join us for an afternoon reception, as we celebrate reaching the milestone of 40,000 ...

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Announcing New Journal: Human Figurations

by Alix May 23, 2012

MPublishing is pleased to announce the release of Human Figurations, a new journal supported and sponsored by the Norbert Elias Foundation. Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his theory of ‘civilizing processes’, but his ambitious vision for the scope of the social sciences extended ...

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UM’s Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing Launch Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Website and Book Series

by Korey Jackson May 22, 2012

The Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing are pleased to announce the launch of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC). The Collaborative has two dimensions: it is a book series that will publish born-digital and digitally enhanced texts focused on the intersections between technologies and communications (teaching, writing, ...

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Korey Jackson Receives Society for Scholarly Publishing “Early Career Award”

by Meredith Kahn May 14, 2012

We are proud to report that Korey Jackson, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at MPublishing, was selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Early Career Award from the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). The award supports attendance at the SSP’s Annual Conference and pairs awardees with mentors in senior management positions within member organizations. As ...

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Ellen Handler Spitz remembers Maurice Sendak on NPR and The New Republic

by Shaun Manning May 14, 2012

Maurice Sendak (photo: Federico Novaro/flickr cc) Maurice Sendak, the renowned children’s book author best known for Where the Wild Things Are, passed away last Tuesday morning at the age of 83. On a day that included many remembrances and tributes across the literary world, U-M Press author Ellen Handler Spitz (Illuminating Childhood) was a guest on NPR’s ...

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Fully-Encoded Papyrology Proceedings Now Available

by Alix May 7, 2012

Along with the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection, we are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology is now available as a fully encoded online volume. Although the Proceedings has long been available online in PDF format, the entire text is now fully encoded in html. The html encoding ...

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April Publications Round-Up

by Alix May 3, 2012

April showers bring… lots of new publications! Here’s what was on tap for April: The cover of the special Great Lakes issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 17.2, the latest electronic back issue from Spring 2011. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from university students’ views ...

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Pascoe ponders the index in the Chronicle of Higher Education

by Shaun Manning May 1, 2012

Judith Pascoe, author of The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, dedicated a recent column in The Chronicle of Higher Education to the sometimes vexing subject of indexing, in particular the question of whether authors should index their own books or hire a professional.

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