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2022 Library Publishing Directory

University of Michigan

University Library

Michigan Publishing

  • https://publishing.umich.edu
  • mpublishing@umich.edu
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Jason Colman, Director of Publishing Services
Phone: 734-647-6017
Email: taftman@umich.edu

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. We publish scholarly and educational materials, provide publishing services, and advocate for the broadest possible access to scholarship everywhere.

  • Publishing activities began: 2001
  • Location: United States
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage comments:
  • Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Peer reviewed journals: 90%
  • Journals that assess article processing charges: 3%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 37
  • Graduate students: 2
  • Undergraduates: 3
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • Library materials budget: 25%
  • Library operating budget: 10%
  • Grants: 20%
  • Sales revenue: 25%
  • Chargebacks: 20%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; technical/research reports.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets 87 87
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 14 14
Journals, campus-based student-created 6 6
Journals, contracted by external groups 19 18 1
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs 20 20
Newsletters
Technical/research reports 1 1
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Library-administered university press publications:

For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.


  2021
Monographs 86

Highlights

Top publications:
  • Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (journal)
  • Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (journal)
  • Maize Books (book imprint)
  • Philosophers' Imprint (journal)
  • Journal of Electronic Publishing (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • media studies
  • philosophy
  • history
  • medicine
  • information studies

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner

Best publications to refer to our program: Enhanced eBooks; OA journals needing full-service editorial workflow

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?
  • University press partner: University of Michigan Press
Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Janeway
  • Pressbooks
  • Samvera
  • locally developed software
  • Fulcrum; DLXS

Additional services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – other
  • budget preparation
  • business model development
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital preservation strategy:
  • CLOCKSS
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • Portico

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
In 2022 we will be continuing development of our Mellon-funded platform, Fulcrum, seeking partnerships with other publishers to make the platform sustainable, accessible, durable, and discoverable. This year will also complete a particular focus on re-imagining the ACLS Humanities E-Book collection, which we have taken on stewardship of from the American Council of Learned Societies.
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