Charles Watkinson (he/him/his)
@charleswatkinso
Director of University of Michigan Press; Associate University Librarian, Publishing, U-M Library; President, Association of University Presses. Views my own.
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https://www.publishing.umich.edu/ 17-04-2009 19:49:03
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Congratulations to Theresa Delgadillo for the upcoming publication of her book Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas with the University of Michigan Press! Order online and save 30% with discount code UMF24! Latinx Talk press.umich.edu/Books/G/Geogra…
After Disruption: A Future for Culture Memory by Trevor Owens (Trevor Owens) is live at University of Michigan Press, and it is #openaccess . Memory workers/institutions must take back control of the future of memory from management consultants and tech evangelists. Read free at doi.org/mtmc
#CheckItOut ! University of Michigan Press has a survey that users of Open Access books are prompted to take when they first open an OA book. Analysis of 8,325 responses led to 5 books being selected for investingating the benefits of OA publishing: blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies/h…
Terrific piece on #openaccess monographs published in Times Higher Education but free to read here thanks to AUPresses 📚. The authors call out the broad brush policy moves that devalue the value of the professional labor engaged in academic book publishing. (digitaldigest.up.hcommons.org/2024/04/25/pol…)
Finishing off #WorldBookDay in our timezone with a 'thank you' newsletter to the libraries that make University of Michigan Press #openaccess book editions possible and a recap of some studies we've done on the global reach and impact of these free editions, mailchi.mp/158398434786/o…
Grab your headphones and listen to our podcast with the New Books Network 📚! This podcast features compelling conversations with University of Michigan Press authors and their books. Start listening here: newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-pa…
Better together: BTAA, CDL, and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States lyrasisnow.org/wp-content/upl… #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #BTAA , #OA #Lyrasis
Kate McCready @lyrasis Sharla Lair CA Digital Library
We call on all organisations that carry out, fund, and evaluate research to support the transition to open research information and to sign the #BarcelonaDeclaration on Open Research Information.
See barcelona-declaration.org
#OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation
So pleased to see our new grant funding scheme launched. Do get in touch with us at the Open Book Collective if you have any questions at all. Thanks in particular to dr. judith fathallah for all the work on this, including leading our scoping work and developing the guidance
Publishing your entire book with me at Lever Press is not only free, but we pay our authors an honorarium of $1000. And that's in addition to all the other wonderful ways we treat your project!
There's clearly something special about Muhlenberg College, where both Francesca Coppa and Jeff Pooley | @[email protected] are faculty members. That's a lot of innovative publishing coming out of a small liberal arts college in Allentown, PA.
I'm really looking forward to the UP Redux conference and seeing AUPresses 📚 and other colleagues in Edinburgh, May 15-16. The meeting is organized by Edinburgh University Press and ALPSP and the program looks awesome, alpsp.org/upredux
“😮💨 “The unmastered album was originally submitted to Clemson University in South Carolina as the author's dissertation, composed against the backdrop of the growing unrest across the U.S. and the world…” from University of Michigan Press”