Press Release

UM’s Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing Launch Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Website and Book Series

by Korey Jackson May 22, 2012

The Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, the University of Michigan Press and MPublishing are pleased to announce the launch of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC). The Collaborative has two dimensions: it is a book series that will publish born-digital and digitally enhanced texts focused on the intersections between technologies and communications (teaching, writing, ...

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MPublishing & OHP Release Six Open Access Books in Critical Theory

by Korey Jackson December 16, 2011

Open Humanities Press (OHP) and MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML and paperback editions. In a unique collaboration, OHP, an international, scholar-run publishing collective, and MPublishing are jointly releasing the books on ...

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MLibrary Launches Project to Identify Orphan Works

by Greg Grossmeier May 16, 2011

From the press release: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are so-called “orphans,” that is, in-copyright ...

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