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 SSP President Terry Van Schaik remarked in a recent press release, “The winners of these 2012 awards, who come from commercial, university, and society publishers, are reflective of a large portion of SSP’s membership, and so in part they represent the future of the society and of scholarly publishing overall.”
Join us in congratulating Korey! We look forward to reading about his experience at the SSP Annual Conference. For more information about SSP, please see http://www.sspnet.org/.
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 Madeleine Brand Show to speak about Sendak’s life and work.
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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 will provide functionality far beyond the PDF version, such as:
- Hyperlinks are included to both endnotes and outside sources.
- Search capabilities are greatly enhanced, as articles will appear in basic web searches.
- The volume can be viewed without having to download individual PDFs.
- Encoding in xml will help to ensure long-term digital preservation.
This online volume embodies the new model for papyrological publication that Traianos Gagos had envisioned, and we are excited to finally bring it to completion. In addition, PDFs of individual articles or the entire volume can still be downloaded free of charge, and Print-On-Demand copies can be ordered for those who desire a print version.
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 on a public service requirement for graduation to building community-university partnerships. MJCSL makes past issues available for free online. Current material (Volume 18, 2011-2012) is available in hard copy through a subscription.
- 10 new & revised articles on ARKIVOC, the free online journal for organic chemistry.
- Philosophy & Theory in Biology, the peer-reviewed open access online journal, released a new paper: “Agent-based Models as Fictive Instantiations of Ecological Processes” by Steven L. Peck.
- The Philosopher’s Imprint released Issue 9 of Volume 12: Closure Reconsidered by Yuval Avnur.
- The Spring 2012 issue of the open access Trans-Asia Photography Review was published in April. This issue features several book reviews, articles, and an archival collection of Asia photographs at Harvard, the first in a series of introductions to archives in libraries, museums, and other institutions that collect and preserve photographs of Asia.
- A new issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review was released. Volume 50, Issue 3 is a special issue with writing focused around the Great Lakes. Issue 3 features poetry from Albert Goldbarth, Margaret Noori, Holly Wren Spaulding, Ruth Joynton, John Repp, essays by nature writer (and University of Michigan Press author) Jerry Dennis, Anna Vodicka, Keith Taylor, fiction by Steve Amick and Devin Murphy, and full-color photos of the Great Lakes basin selected from the exhibition “The Primacy of Water” curated by the River Gallery of Chelsea, Michigan.
