University of Michigan Press facts for kids
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| Parent company | University of Michigan |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Distribution | Chicago Distribution Center (US) Eurospan Group (Europe and Africa) |
| Publication types | Books, digital media |
| Nonfiction topics | Humanities and social sciences |
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library. It publishes 170 new titles each year in the humanities and social sciences. Titles from the press have earned numerous awards, including Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Joe A. Callaway Award, and the Nautilus Book Award. The press has published works by authors who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal and the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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History
From 1858 to 1930, the University of Michigan had no organized entity for its scholarly publications, which were generally conference proceedings or department-specific research. The University Press was established in 1930 under the university's Graduate School, and in 1935, Frank E. Robbins, assistant to university president Alexander G. Ruthven, was appointed as the managing editor of the University Press. He would hold this position until 1954, when Fred D. Wieck was appointed as Press Director. Though initial plans for the press only foresaw it maintaining the output of conference materials and Alumni Readings Lists, Robbins expanded this vision to include publications on diverse fields of interest, such as archaeology, linguistics, and international interests.
In 2009, the press became a part of the University of Michigan Library. Today, the press primarily publishes English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks and teacher training manuals, scholarly monographs in a variety of fields—including classical studies, Asian studies, political science, disability studies, and theater and performance—and books on Michigan and the Great Lakes region.
English language teaching
The University of Michigan Press is known for its English as a Second Language (ESL) product line. Because the University of Michigan was the first place to publish ESL student textbooks and teacher training manuals in the United States (1941), the products ultimately ended up being first distributed and then fully published by the University of Michigan Press. Although at one point the only new titles published were those by faculty and staff at the English Language Institute, authors currently represent a variety of institutions around the world. Today, the MICHIGAN ELT list is primarily recognized for its English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and teacher training products.
Digital media
The University of Michigan Press has over 1,100 monographs in its catalogue that are available as ebooks, and it is involved in several digital media projects.
digitalculturebooks
digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and digital humanities. The imprint began in 2006 as a partnership between MLibrary and the press, taking advantage of the skills and expertise of staff throughout Michigan Publishing. Its primary goal is to be an incubator for new publishing models in the humanities and social sciences.
Fulcrum
Fulcrum is a publishing platform that the press has developed with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in partnership with Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State Universities. Fulcrum helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, and flexible form. With Fulcrum, scholarly authors can link source materials—including images, video and audio clips, and three-dimensional interactive models—to book-length interpretations of them in an integrated way. These digital objects can be published as supplemental materials, with the book elsewhere, or both narrative and data can be presented together.
Knowledge Unlatched
The University of Michigan Press is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books, and has included three titles in the Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection.
Imprints and series
Imprints
- English Language Teaching
- digitalculturebooks
Series
The University of Michigan Press publishes numerous ongoing series, including:
- Class : Culture
- Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics
- Corporealities: Discourses on Disability
- Digital Humanities
- Jazz Perspectives
- Law, Meaning, and Violence
- Legislative Politics and Policy Making
- Michigan Modern Dramatists
- New Comparative Politics
- Perspectives on Contemporary Korea
- Poets on Poetry
- Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
- Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
- Tracking Pop
- Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
- Under Discussion
See also
In Spanish: University of Michigan Press para niños
- List of English-language book publishing companies
- List of university presses
