June 2012

Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan awarded University of Michigan Press/HASTAC prize

by Shaun Manning June 18, 2012

The University of Michigan Press and HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advance Collaboratory) are pleased to announce the selection of Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan as recipients of the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. Each Prize carries $5,000 in subvention funds and an advance contract with the Press series DigitalHumanities@digitalculturebooks.

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100th Article of Philosopher’s Imprint

by Alix June 13, 2012

Philosopher’s Imprint, the free online philosophy journal, released it’s 100th article last week! That article is “Inner and Outer Truth” by Iris Einheuser. The Imprint is one of the first serials published by MPublishing. It was founded in the spirit of the open access movement, which–broadly–seeks to make scholarship more widely available outside traditional publishing models, as well ...

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Fifty reasons to look forward to fall

by Emily June 11, 2012

If you’ve visited the Press website in the past three weeks you’ve probably noticed that the Fall 2012 e-Catalog is live. (And if you haven’t been to our homepage lately, what are you waiting for?!) Featuring 50 titles and spanning a range of categories, the e-Catalog provides an interesting – and interactive – peek at ...

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May Publications Round-Up

by Alix June 8, 2012

     Three open-access books were published jointly by MPublishing and Open Humanities Press in May: Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, edited by Tom Cohen, is a collection of essays by notable critics and philosophers and is part of the  Climate Change Series. Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, ...

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Leadership Changes at MPublishing

by Meredith Kahn June 6, 2012

After much consideration, Maria Bonn has decided not to return as our Associate University Librarian for Publishing. As many of you know, Maria spent the last year recovering from an accident, and Paul Courant, Dean of the University Library, has been serving as the interim AUL for Publishing. Maria was a driving force in the ...

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