[ecrea] OHP Releases Six Open Access Books in Critical Theory

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 at:

http://openhumanitiespress.org

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.

“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.”

The six books are:

The Democracy of Objects by Levi R. Bryant;
Immersion Into Noise by Joseph Nechvatal;
Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, edited by
Tom Cohen;
Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol.
2, edited by Henry Sussman;
Terror, Theory, and the Humanities, edited by Jeffrey DiLeo and Uppinder
Mehan;
The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies by John Carlos Rowe.

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.”

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.

“I’ve been very happy with the publishing experience,” said John Carlos
Rowe, USC Associate Professor of the Humanities and former Chair of the
Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of
Southern California. “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.”

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.”

Contact: Sigi Jöttkandt: (sigij /at/ openhumanitiespress.org)
Open Humanities Press

Shana Kimball: (kimballs /at/ umich.edu)
MPublishing, University of Michigan Library

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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 http://openhumanitiespress.org

MPublishing 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 community


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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info

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