University of Michigan
University Library
Michigan Publishingmpublishing@umich.edu
www.publishing.umich.edu
@M_Publishing
United States
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Program Overview
Michigan Publishing is the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, and is a part of its dynamic and innovative University Library. Our mission as publishers, librarians, copyright experts, and technologists is to support the communications needs of scholars, and to publish, promote, and preserve the scholarly record.
Year publishing activities began: 2001
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities:
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (60); sales revenue (40)
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Publishing Activities
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Open Humanities Press; American Council of Learned Societies
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; WordPress; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: HathiTrust; in-house
Additional services: typesetting; copy-editing; marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registration; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory