August 2012

What We Did on Our Summer Vacation: More LibGuides!

by Meredith Kahn August 30, 2012

While campus was quiet and coffee shops were empty, here at MPublishing we were hard at work on a number of projects. One of those efforts was a collaboration with colleagues to improve or create new LibGuides on a range of topics. Our guides now include: Copyright Basics - an introduction to copyright, fair use, and ...

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New Service for Publishing Partners: Rapid Typesetting

by Meredith Kahn August 28, 2012

While many of our journals are online-only publications, sometimes readers still want the ability to print articles in order to facilitate deeper engagement and long-form reading. Though they can certainly print a copy of the web version of an article, a version typeset for print is more attractive and easier to use in hard copy. ...

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More Information on mPach: A Modular Publishing Platform for HathiTrust

by Meredith Kahn August 10, 2012

In April, we announced a project to create a new publishing platform for journal content. The project—now known as mPach—will be a package of tools to enable the publication of open-access journals directly into HathiTrust, as well as allow for integration of popular journal publishing tools such as Open Journal Systems (OJS). MPublishing’s Kevin Hawkins recently gave an invited presentation to ...

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Copyright Office Fellow Lisa Hardman Selected as ARL Diversity Scholar

by mslevine August 7, 2012

The Copyright Office is pleased to announce that Lisa Hardman, one of our ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellows for 2012, has been named as an ARL Diversity Scholar. Lisa worked with us over the course of last year to create a comprehensive research and action agenda to help libraries make full legal uses of state government ...

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July Publications Round-Up

by Alix August 6, 2012

It’s been a fairly quiet month at MPublishing as we head into the dog days of summer. Here’s what we’ve released so far this summer: Human Figurations released Issue 2 of Volume 1, featuring new articles and book reviews. Human Figurations,  a journal on sociology and other disciplines, is one of our newest publications. Philosophy & ...

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