November 2012

New from digitalculturebooks: The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

by Meredith Kahn November 26, 2012

We’re proud to announce the latest title from digitalculturebooks, Andrew Herscher’s The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility. The Guide documents art ...

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Thoughts on My DLF Forum 2012 Fellowship

by Alix November 19, 2012

I had a fantastic time as a Forum Fellow at the Digital Library Federation Forum 2012, and am very grateful to DLF for the opportunity.   I was also fortunate to be assigned a mentor: Jenn Riley, the head of the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina. Jenn was wonderful about ...

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Organizational Changes in MPublishing

by Meredith Kahn November 12, 2012

After the creation of MPublishing as a formal unit in 2009, we are now taking further steps to bring together the robust publishing units at the University of Michigan, now part of the University of Michigan Library. We have now created three cross-unit departments that bring together the vast scholarly and trade publishing experience of ...

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October Publications Round-Up

by Alix November 8, 2012

We at the Digital Publishing Production unit of MPublishing work with publishing partners at the University of Michigan and around the world to increase access to new and existing academic work. Here’s what’s new for the month of October: Nineteen new and updated articles in ARKIVOC, the free online journal for organic chemistry. Feminist Studies published issue ...

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