Services

The Scholarly Publishing Office provides an array of sustainable publishing services to the scholarly community. We keep costs low and our methods sustainable by leveraging the resources and expertise of the Library to offer a core set of services for digital publishing and partnering with others to extend these services when necessary. The publications we create are not simply websites: they are interfaces to text and images stored in non-proprietary formats in the University of Michigan’s digital library infrastructure. Michigan has a distinguished history in the preservation of digital resources, successfully maintaining them through changes in technology. As an extension of this preservation commitment, SPO pledges to maintain the content it publishes. Our preference for open-source software helps to keeps costs down. And our approach to marketing is to make our publications discoverable through search engines, full-text searching, and library catalogues.

As a library-based publisher, we can help navigate the shifting landscape of scholarly communication. SPO develops its services to be responsive to scholars, so please contact us to find out how we can help meet your publishing needs.

SPO's core services include:

  • Electronic publication and distribution of journals, monographs, and other scholarly content in a range of formats
  • Robust search and navigation
  • Long-term preservation and archiving
  • Conversion of content from print or digital formats into XML
  • Usage statistics
  • Support for multimedia
  • Access control options (open to the public or available by subscription)
  • Persistent URLs (handles)
  • Content discoverable by major search engines, OAI-PMH harvesting, and web feeds
  • ISSN and ISBN registration
  • Metadata creation and cataloging
  • Workflow management
  • Consulting and project planning

SPO can also help with:

  • Intellectual property rights consultation
  • Digitization of printed text and images
  • Business planning for qualified journals in the humanities and social sciences, through our partnership with SPARC
  • Setting up publications for print-on-demand or short-run digital printing
  • Locating skilled graphic designers, copyeditors, and indexers