11 Facts About Michigan Publishing

University of Michigan Publishing Library is the academic library system of the University of Michigan Publishing and the second largest research library in the United States by volumes held.

The University Library is separate from the libraries of the University of Michigan Publishing–Dearborn and the University of Michigan Publishing–Flint .

In December 2004, the University of Michigan Publishing announced a book digitization program in collaboration with Google, which is both revolutionary and controversial.

Michigan Publishing Legislature created the University of Michigan Publishing in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library.

The next year, the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan Publishing acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970.

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Scholarly Publishing Office was a unit of the University of Michigan Library devoted to developing innovative and economically sustainable publishing and distribution models for scholarly discourse.

Library-based publishing services such as those offered by the Scholarly Michigan Publishing Office contribute to a more robust, efficient, and diverse system of scholarly communication.

Michigan Publishing conglomerates drive subscription rates up, while libraries struggle—and in many case fail—to keep up.

SPO began a collaboration with the University of Michigan Press, called the Michigan Digital Publishing Initiative, to explore the possibilities of new publishing partnerships between libraries and traditional, print-based academic presses.

Since the early 1990s, the University of Michigan Publishing Library has been a leader among research libraries in efforts to digitize its vast collections.

The University of Michigan Publishing, which developed the MBooks platform for its own digitized books, partnered with Indiana University and the CIC libraries and the University of California system to create governance and models for financial support.