Core Organization of MPublishing

MPublishing brings together several important University of Michigan scholarly publishing units:

• University of Michigan Press publishes scholarly, trade, and regional books in digital and print formats, as well as selected textbooks; the Press publishes approximately 130 new titles each year and has a backlist of 2,500 books undergoing digitization. The Press has an active editorial team as well as sales/marketing and production services.
• Scholarly Publishing Office provides hosting services and management for 20 open access and subscription journals and a platform for online book delivery. In addition, SPO is involved in departmental publishing activities including database development and print production, and handles reprints of public domain materials via POD technologies, including the Espresso Book Machine, housed in the Library.
• Deep Blue is the University of Michigan institutional repository, providing access and preservation for electronic versions of UM faculty produced content.
• Copyright Office provides education and advice on copyright issues as well as national and campus leadership on matters of copyright policy.
• The Text Creation Partnership is a groundbreaking collaborative effort between over 150 colleges and universities and three commercial publishers. Production staff at Michigan and Oxford convert digital page image collections from cultural heritage archives including Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Evans American Imprints into fully-searchable, TEI-compliant SGML/XML encoded texts. Both the business and production management for this multi-institutional collaboration are provided by the University of Michigan Library.

The operational organization of MPublishing is under development in order to create shared efficiencies across the publishing units and to provide maximum value to the campus and the larger scholarly community.