Tag: publishing

The Stories Still Need to Be Told: A Message for Our University of Minnesota Press Community

March 25, 2020

Dear U of MN Press community, friends, authors, scholars, and readers: To call these times unprecedented in our country and our world does not do justice to the level of disruption, difficulty, and genuine peril at our doorsteps. As with most of you, the emergency arrived swiftly at the Press. First, highly anticipated travel and … More The Stories Still Need to Be Told: A Message for Our University of Minnesota Press Community

Meet Leah Pennywark, our new humanities editor!

August 26, 2019

The University of Minnesota Press is delighted to welcome its new humanities editor, Leah Pennywark, to the fold this month. She was selected from more than one hundred applicants to the position. As editorial director Jason Weidemann stated in our recent press release, “Leah has a deep understanding and appreciation for what we do at … More Meet Leah Pennywark, our new humanities editor!

The Value of University Presses, Then and Now

August 5, 2019

Press Director Douglas Armato has been a leader in scholarly publishing long enough that the Association of University Presses has asked him to help define the central values of the field—twice. In 2000, he worked with Steve Cohn of Duke University Press and Susan Schott of the University of Kansas Press on “The Value of … More The Value of University Presses, Then and Now

#UPWeek: Knowing the Facts.

November 7, 2017

 The theme of University Press Week 2017 is #LookItUP: Knowledge Matters.In today’s political climate—where “fake news” and “alternate facts” are believed by so many people—valuing expertise and knowledge can feel like a radical act. University presses not only believe in facts and knowledge, but traffic in them daily, publishing approximately 14,000 books and more than 1,100 … More #UPWeek: Knowing the Facts.

Manifold Beta Now Available

April 7, 2017

Manifold is an intuitive, collaborative platform for scholarly publishing. With iterative texts, powerful annotation tools, rich media support, and robust community dialogue, Manifold transforms scholarly publications into living digital works. The Manifold team is delighted to launch a public beta of its new publishing platform for interactive scholarly monographs: http://staging.manifoldapp.org/. Funded through the generous support … More Manifold Beta Now Available

#UPWeek | #ReadUP | University Press Week: Meet our first director and get a preview of this weekend’s Avant Museology, a collaborative two-day symposium.

November 18, 2016

Today’s post is published in connection with University Press Week, which is organized by the Association of American for University Presses (AAUP). University Press Week was first declared in 1978 by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. More background on #UPWeek can be found here. Likewise, in connection with Give to the Max Day (an initiative to … More #UPWeek | #ReadUP | University Press Week: Meet our first director and get a preview of this weekend’s Avant Museology, a collaborative two-day symposium.

#UPWeek finale: More authors on working with a university press

November 13, 2015

On Monday, we kicked off University Press Week with a tremendous blurb from Nona Willis Aronowitz about the value of working with a university press. Today, we are pleased to wrap up #UPWeek with not one, but THREE more blurbs from beloved authors who value our particular model of publishing. Working and publishing with a … More #UPWeek finale: More authors on working with a university press

#UPWeek: Throwback Thursday | University presses and other publishers and their founding dates.

November 12, 2015

Full, huge graphic available here. Full, huge graphic available here. And next in the #UPWeek blog tour is University of Chicago Press with a letter from 1991, the year the PDF was established. For more about today’s fascinating lineup on the #UPWeek blog tour, click here.

#UPWeek Day One: Nona Willis Aronowitz on working with a university press

November 9, 2015

For me, working with a university press was absolutely the right choice. I didn’t just feel like one of a million authors at the mercy of a breakneck publishing schedule; I got tons of personal attention and received insightful advice from my editor. The publicists were strategic and inventive. Since I was collecting my mother’s … More #UPWeek Day One: Nona Willis Aronowitz on working with a university press