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face="Liberation Serif, serif">In case of interest to list
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Best,<br>
Sigi Jottkandt<br>
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face="Liberation Serif, serif">OHP
RELEASES SIX OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IN CRITICAL THEORY</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">(Ann
Arbor, MI-December 19, 2011) — Open Humanities Press (OHP) and
MPublishing are pleased to announce the publication of six open
access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and
cultural
studies. Each title will be freely available as full-text HTML,
as
well as in paperback editions, and are being released on a
rolling
publication schedule beginning 15 December.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">In
a unique collaboration, the books are being jointly released by
OHP,
an international publishing collective run by scholars, and
MPublishing, the library-based publishing enterprise at the
University of Michigan. </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;">“<font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">We
are tremendously excited with these results,” says Sigi
Jöttkandt,
a co-founder of the collective and lecturer at the University of
New
South Wales in Australia. “When we first launched OHP as a
high-profile open access journal publisher in 2008, we didn’t
expect to be publishing open access books so quickly as well.” </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">The
six books are <i>The Democracy of Objects</i> by Levi R.
Bryant;
<i>Immersion Into Noise</i> by Joseph Nechvatal; <i>Telemorphosis:
Theory
in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1</i>, edited by Tom Cohen;
<i>Impasses of the Post-Globa</i><i>l</i>: <i>Theory in the Era
of
Climate Change, Vol. 2</i>,<i> </i>edited by Henry Sussman;<i>
Terror, Theory, and the Humanities</i>, edited by Jeffrey
DiLeo and
Uppinder Mehan; and <i>The Cultural Politics of the New
American
Studies</i> by John Carlos Rowe.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">Shana
Kimball, Interim Head of MPublishing at the University of
Michigan
Library, says that the release of these books is a remarkable
achievement for OHP and “strong proof of concept that emerging
scholar and library led publishing models can be part of the
solution
to the problem of access.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">The
peer-reviewed books are part of OHP’s Critical Climate Change
series (edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook) and the New
Metaphysics series (edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour).
MPublishing created the structured XML for electronic and print
on
demand publication, as well as the metadata and cataloging
information, and archived the books in the University of
Michigan
Library for long-term preservation. </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;">“<font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">I’ve
been very happy with the publishing experience,” said John
Carlos
Rowe, USC Associates Chair in Humanities and Professor of
English and
American Studies and Ethnicity. “This is just what digital
scholarly publishing needs: fully refereed work that can be
compared
favorably with the process of evaluation at any major university
press.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">According
to Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries,
this
publication event marks another milestone in the transformation
of
scholarly publishing. “It further establishes that scholars can
extend the widely-held value of openness into the publishing
realm
when libraries give them access to the requisite expertise and
mechanisms.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif">Open
Humanities Press is an international Open Access publishing
collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was
formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly
publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic
rigor
worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP’s
independent board of international scholars. All OHP
publications are
peer-reviewed, published under open access licenses, and freely
and
immediately available online at </font><a
href="http://openhumanitiespress.org/"><font color="#000080"><font
face="Liberation Serif, serif"><u>http://openhumanitiespress.org</u></font></font></a></p>
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href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/mpublishing">MPublishing</a>
is the primary academic publishing division of the University of
Michigan. It creates, promotes, distributes and preserves
scholarly,
educational and regional materials in digital and print formats.
MPublishing focuses on the best application of technology to the
world of scholarly publishing. It is committed to improving the
copyright climate for scholarship by developing services for
areas of
publishing growth otherwise under-served within the University
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