Announcements

Announcing Maize Books, A New Imprint for Scholarly and Creative Works

by Meredith Kahn May 1, 2013

The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, we’re proud to announce Maize Books, a new Michigan Publishing imprint. This imprint represents a lean, responsive model for publishing scholarly and creative works. We understand that scholarship can take many forms, ...

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Aaron Tugendhaft Awarded the Jonas Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists

by Meredith Kahn March 1, 2013

The American Oriental Society recently awarded its Jonas Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists to Aaron Tugendhaft for his article “How to Become a Brother in the Bronze Age: An Inquiry into the Representation of Politics in Ugaritic Myth,” published in the journal Fragments. The prize is awarded every three years to a scholar under forty for ...

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University of Michigan Joins Library Publishing Coalition

by Meredith Kahn January 14, 2013

The University of Michigan, in collaboration with more than 50 other academic libraries and the Educopia Institute, has joined a two-year project (2013-2014) to create the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regarding the need for a community dedicated to advancing ...

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Looking Ahead to 2013

by Meredith Kahn January 8, 2013

Here in Ann Arbor, the new semester is just starting. As we settle into 2013, let’s take a moment to review some of our accomplishments in the last year… 2012 by the numbers: 23 instruction sessions on copyright, digital publishing, and scholarly communication 312 tweets from @M_Publishing 4,229 new EEBO-TCP texts published this year, bringing ...

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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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Alix Keener Awarded DLF Forum Fellowship

by Meredith Kahn October 23, 2012

We are proud to announce that Alix Keener, our Digital Production Assistant here at MPublishing and an MSI student at the UM School of Information, has been awarded a DLF Forum Fellowship. The fellowship provides generous financial assistance for attendance at the DLF Fall Forum (November 3-5, 2012 in Denver, CO), an important opportunity to ...

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Announcing the Publication of ‘Writing History in the Digital Age’

by Meredith Kahn October 23, 2012

With Open Access Week now in full swing, we’re proud to announce that Writing History in the Digital Age has been approved for publication as part of the University of Michigan Press’s open access imprint digitalculturebooks. The collection, a born-digital, openly reviewed volume of essays about the interactions between the discipline of history and new ...

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The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia

by Meredith Kahn October 9, 2012

In partnership with the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, we are proud to announce the release of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia, documenting the experiences of 50 diverse communities in the United States in fall 1918 and winter 1919 when influenza took the lives of an estimated ...

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Dr. Chuck Severance’s ‘Python for Informatics’ Now Available in iBooks

by taftman September 24, 2012

We are proud to announce that Dr. Chuck Severance’s popular textbook Python for Informatics is now available in an iPad edition. Staff in MPublishing worked with Dr. Chuck to convert the book’s contents for the iPad, which allowed us to add a number of new features. Each chapter now includes a lecture from Dr. Chuck, ...

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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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