University of Michigan Press
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1930 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Publication types | Books, digital media |
| Nonfiction topics | Humanities and social sciences |
| Official website | press |
The University of Michigan Press is 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 been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and the Nautilus Book Award.
In 2010, Bard Graduate Center partnered with the University of Michigan Press to produce Cultural Histories of the Material World.
In March 2009, the University of Michigan Press announced the transition to digital publication, a shift directed by former director of the University of Michigan Press, Phil Pochoda. In a move that has been discussed since the 1990s, this announcement came, according to The Michigan Daily, "approximately one month after the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries issued a call to action urging universities to take a more active role in producing and sharing academic works through digital technologies." The shift to digitization began with the "publication of digital monographs in lieu of low-run, high-cost print editions." According to Pochoda, the move freed " the press, in large part, from the constraints imposed by the print-based business model." The University of Michigan Press publishes e-books in pdf, Amazon Kindle, and MP3 formats and has extended its e-book services to the Ann Arbor District Library.
In 2011, the University of Michigan Press began to publish installments of new releases on Facebook. This move was followed later in the year by announcements of new releases on Twitter.
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.
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