The first issue of Black Music in Theory is now available to read online! Start reading here:

Have you heard about our new Opening the Future program? We're proud to be expanding open access publishing in a sustainable way, ensuring that more high-quality content can be made accessible globally. buff.ly/0G8gi5k #OpenAccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

💡Discover what it means to work in a creative studio with 'The Student Guide to the Creative Studio in the Digital Age'. Set up your space, boost your skills, build standout portfolios, and present your work with confidence. buff.ly/Hbl7h5p @uwpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Starting now: Expanding Digital Accessibility Because We Want To! Compliance is one thing. But let's not forget the real joy that improving readers’ lives can bring. #chsconf2025

Many thanks to those who stopped by our #Charleston2025 vendor showcase on Tuesday! We were busy as squirrels talking with everyone about the ebook collections and distribution services that Michigan Publishings offers. Learn more: publishing.umich.edu. #OpenAccess #chsconf2025 @chashub.bsky.social

Congratulations to the researchers from the U-M Departments of Medicine and Anthropology on the publication of their dataset about the impact of external bone size on the identification of low mass in children. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/47ej... #AcademicSky

Enjoying #Charleston2025? Reminisce on last year's conference with our newly published 2024 Conference Proceedings! Start reading: buff.ly/DNyLhKB #chsconf2025

Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️‍🔥 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝 👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/... #chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs

Today we launch our new Opening the Future (OtF) program: a partnership model funding equitable and sustainable open access. Learn more: buff.ly/vYJO8QN #chsconf2025 #library #openaccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @chashub.bsky.social

We are so excited about this new partnership with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Stop by our booth at #Charleston2025 this week to hear all about it! #chsconf2025

The Journal of Practical Ethics, vol 13, issue 1 is now available! Start reading here:

Volume 25 of the Philosophers' Imprint is now available! Start reading here:

👻 Happy Halloween! What better time to discover the inaugural volume in Lever Press's film|minutes book series?: 'Bride of Frankenstein' by @shanedenson.bsky.social dissects the 1935 classic through sound, technology, and time itself minute-by-minute.🎃 🍿 bit.ly/3JzEdPr @leverpress.bsky.social

As we're closing out International Open Access Week, check out our brand new Open Access web pages! Explore how to read, publish, and support UMP's open access mission here: buff.ly/SrPWR4a #OAWeek

Interested in a non commercial, academy owned publishing solution? We work with our friends at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social to offer Janeway and Fulcrum together. janewayfulcrum.olh.pub

We really enjoyed seeing some of the multimedia 'books' other OIPA members are creating. If you're interested in publishing something with multimedia elements, come talk to us! While we're a small press, through our partnership with @michiganpublishing.bsky.social we can make it happen!

This #OAWeek, we are proud to highlight our Deep Blue Repository. #DeepBlueData and #DeepBlueDocs allow U-M scholars to safely preserve their work and to make it widely available to others in the U-M community and beyond! www.lib.umich.edu/collections/... #AcademicSky

Happy Open Access Week! For this year's theme of "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" we've put together a list of OA UMP titles that challenge these questions of knowledge ownership, access to education, and community. Read the full list: buff.ly/YqPuDrC #OAWeek

"Who owns knowledge, who produces it, and how—and, most importantly, who pays for it—are central questions for researchers, publishers, and university librarians now more than ever. Lever Press answers these questions with a collective yawp: "we do." Read more about our OA mission: buff.ly/UTiIdYL

It's International Open Access Week🔓 We're sharing some stats from our OA programme & introducing our new OA Hub. On the Hub, you can find out about: ➡️The reach & impact of our work & initiatives ➡️Our most-downloaded books ➡️Benefits of OA ➡️OA FAQs & more Visit the Hub via the MUP website today🐝

Weave UX, vol 8, no 2 is now available! Start reading here:

The newest issue of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health, vol. 18 is now available! Start reading this journal here: buff.ly/EYsUODI #AcademicSky

To Improve the Academy, vol. 44, no. 2 is now available online! Start reading here:

"Spotted Ponies: The Collected Zines" is now available! Start reading this collection today: buff.ly/hnfStvI

Congratulations to the hundreds of UM students who submitted their final master's and doctoral theses & dissertations this past semester! All of this impressive scholarship is now safely stored in our very own Deep Blue Docs repository: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.... #AcademicSky

ADAPTIVE FORMS by Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley is now available to read online! This new edition to our Videographic series examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film through 14 video essays. Start reading and watching here: buff.ly/1K6d7Z0

Pre-order Nina's book here: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Arti...

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

The Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 12, issue 1 is now available from @abdnunipress.bsky.social! Start reading: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/38/info/

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Museum of Paleontology on the publication of their new dataset about projection stratigraphy at the Wadi Al-Hitan World Heritage Site in Egypt! Funded by the National Science Foundation. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/m6et... #AcademicSky

We’re hiring a Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences to join the Deep Blue Repository & Research Data Services team within Michigan Publishing. The salary range for this role is $76-87k. Posting closes on 10/19/25. Learn more and apply today! #publishingjobs careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Out now, 'Constructed Latinx(s) Identities' examines how media like film, literature, and TV shape Latinx identity. Through case studies, essays challenge colonial power, recover suppressed knowledge, and reimagine Latinx as diverse and evolving. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social bit.ly/4m7AJRK

📺'Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s' explores the creativity & contradictions of post-Soviet media, from glasnost to Putin. Essays show how TV & the internet shaped civil society before independence gave way to authoritarianism. bit.ly/4nwV0RR @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Michigan readers love @uofmpress.bsky.social books! The "Read Michigan" Program impacts every county in the state. Launched in collaboration with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social, "Read Michigan" features works of 3 MI university presses, incl. MSU and Wayne State's. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

Check out this impact story and webinar recording about @uofmpress.bsky.social digitally converting its entire backlist of ~3500 monographs! Learn more about how UMP made their older scholarly works digitally available, high-quality, accessible ebooks on Fulcrum:

The newest issue of the Michigan Journal of Medicine is now available! Start reading here:

The newest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is now available! Start reading this collection exploring the challenges the climate emergency poses to the publishing sphere:

Unbe-leaf-able! 🍁 Funded by ForestGEO, USDA, and the Edwin S. George Reserve Fund, researchers explored the role of leaves and wood density in characterizing tree species' growth rates. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/s7hm... #AcademicSky

So great to see this in the world. Thank you to editor Janneke Adema, all of the authors, reviewers, and fine folks at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social for creating this timely special issue!

Check out this new #DeepBlueData deposit from the U-M Climate and Space Department! Funded by the Department of Energy, researchers collected data as part of an effort to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas flaring. View the dataset here: doi.org/10.7302/dhw8... #AcademicSky

TILT / BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE are now available to read online! These unique poetry collaborations explore love, mortality, sadness, gender identity, and national politics. Read both here: buff.ly/pti0SEI

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Department on Anthropology on the publication of their most recent dataset that covers the lithic tools, debitage, and fauna from the 1986–1987 excavations at the site of Badanj! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/tnsf... #AcademicSky

Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Physics Department (with funding from the Department of Energy) on the publication of their most recent dataset on singlet-doublet dark matter! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/27j9... #AcademicSky

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection. Find it here: bit.ly/3Vcoc47 @leverpress.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

Funded by the U-M Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Institute for Global Change Biology, and @geosociety.bsky.social, researchers studied changes in the carbon and nitrogen chemistry of sediments in the Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. View the #DeepBlueData: doi.org/10.7302/atpb...

Between January 15 and March 18, 2024, researchers, funded by #NIH, surveyed 1,379 Grand Rapids residents on topics like health, neighborhood perceptions, politics, and more. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/f0kg... #AcademicSky

🔖📘 The legacy of Hirata Atsutane’s study of the Way of the Gods: 'In the Presence of Gods and Spirits : Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators' - an #OpenAccess @michiganpublishing.bsky.social book on #ScienceOpen: 🖇️ #Shinto #JapaneseHistory #MaterialReligion #ReligiousIdentity

🔖📘 Charts the historical development and deployment of ugliness in Greek drama: 'Ugly Productions : An Aesthetics of Greek Drama' - an #OpenAccess @michiganpublishing.bsky.social book on #ScienceOpen: 🖇️ #GreekDrama #NegativeAesthetics #MaterialPerformance #AffectTheory