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The newest volume of Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy is now available to read online! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/issue/4...

Graphic of Shane Denson's book "Bride of Frankenstein"

Heading to the theater this weekend to see The Bride! from Maggie Gyllenhaal? Check out Shane Denson's minute-by-minute examination of the original Bride of Frankenstein film to get the full viewing experience. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

The Beautiful reissue of Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency is coming from @leverpress.bsky.social in a few weeks.

Paperback: $19.99
eBook: Nowt (Open Access)

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Promotional graphic for the book "Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork" by Stacey Copeland. On the right is the book cover in purple and white, featuring an illustrated radio with flowing, abstract lines. On the left, a matching purple background includes a quote: “brings a nuanced, multifaceted account of queer feminist practice into radio and sound studies” attributed to Kate Lacey. The University of Michigan Press logo appears at the bottom.

📻️🌈 In the brilliant "Lavender Sounds", Copeland traces the journey from lesbian radio to #queer feminist podcasting, revealing how sound becomes a powerful, embodied medium for activism, storytelling, and community across generations. @scopeland.bsky.social
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Promotional graphic for the book "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" by Stephen Lee Naish. On the left is the book cover featuring abstract, glitchy vertical streaks in blue, white, and orange tones with the title arranged vertically. The background is a distorted, static-like image in similar colors. On the right, a quote reads, “a kaleidoscopic blending of cinema, politics, and pop-culture” attributed to Iain Reid. Lever Press logo appears in the bottom right corner.

🎞️ Out this month: "Screen Captures"
Stephen Lee Naish interrogates how contemporary cinema mediates crises from climate to platform capitalism, asking what our viewing habits reveal about power, attention, and cultural life today.
Find out more: bit.ly/409WszW
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Every month is National Reading Month when you publish #OpenAccess scholarship! Check out our newest publications, from urban studies of Rome to traditional Chinese literature here: www.leverpress.org

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The Ruin of Souls: A Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1853-1921) The Ruin of Souls presents a new history of Italian Catholic life in the United States, from the founding of the first Italian Catholic church in the United States in 1853 to the end of the…

"The Ruin of Souls: A Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1853-1921)" is now available to read online! This #OpenAccess book presents a new history of Italian Catholic Life in the U.S. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Graphic of book "In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom"

"In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis" is now available! Essays collected honor the U-M faculty member who became symbol of principled dissent when suspended and fired for refusing to testify about his political affiliations. Learn more: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/I/In-t...

Philosophers' Imprint | Issue: Issue: 0(26) (2026) Login | Register

The newest issue of the Philosophers' Imprint is now available to read online! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/issue/...

We've just accomplished one of our biggest goals since launch. We are now able to offer all of our digital backlist titles on fully accessible EPUB formats compliant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility standards! 🎉🕺💃
A huge thank you to our partners @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
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Journal of Muslim Mental Health | Issue: Issue: 4(18) (2026) Nigar Khawaja and Aparna Hebbani

The newest issue of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health is now available to read online! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jmmh/issue/4...

Love Data Week 2026 Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.

In case you missed it, check out these Love Data Week blog posts from our Deep Blue Repositories team! #LoveDataWeek #LoveData26 press.umich.edu/Blog/2026/02...

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Chart titled “Path to Open Early Results: Year-over-Year Item Requests for the First 100 Open Access Titles.” A bar graph compares 2025 (licensed only, shown in gray) with 2026 (open access, shown in red). For January and February, the red bars are dramatically higher—around 9,500–10,000 item requests each month—compared to roughly 1,500–2,000 in 2025. The full-year comparison shows about 20,000 requests in early 2026 already surpassing the roughly 15,000 total requests recorded in all of 2025.

When scholarly books are made freely available, they reach more readers in more places right away.

In just five weeks of #OpenAccess, the first Path to Open books have already been used more than they were during the entire previous year of limited access.

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Promotional graphic for "Amid This" by Allan Peterson. The cover of the book is in the centre of the graphic, which has a light green background and has an illustration of a black tree with flowers growing off its branches in the middle. The background of the graphic also features this illustration twice, enlarged and slightly faded.

Forthcoming from Bridwell Press, “Amid This” by Allan Peterson reflects on perception, language, and the astonishments of everyday life, offering lyrical meditations shaped by attentiveness to the world. Pre-order here: bit.ly/45JzbYC @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Evaluating Wheelchair use in Automated Vehicles and Aircraft: An Interview with Dr. Kathy Klinich International Love Data Week 2026 is February 9-13, 2026. The theme this year is Where’s the Data? The U-M scholars who have shared their data publicly are enthusiastically answering this question.

“Using our data can help make travel safer and easier for wheelchair users.” #LoveData26 #LoveDataWeek @lovedataweek.bsky.social blogs.lib.umich.edu/bits-and-pie...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

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Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways" (via @michiganpublishing.bsky.social) journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ #scholcomm #oa #publishing #libraries

Quantifying skeletal muscle mass: Interview with Brian Derstine International Love Data Week 2026 is February 9-13, 2026. The theme this year is Where’s the Data? The U-M scholars who have shared their data publicly are enthusiastically answering this question.

“Sharing research data allows others to verify your work, which we believe enhances overall trust in science and research.” #LoveData26 #LoveDataWeek @lovedataweek.bsky.social

Photo of book "Living Rome: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging" edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Will Haynes on desk.

A living exploration of contemporary Rome's urban transformations, inequalities, and social dynamics, LIVING ROME is now available to read online! Start reading here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

✨ “Where’s the data? Let’s take this relationship to the repository.”

This year’s theme supports activities such as:
• Data Detective scavenger hunts
• Adopt-a-Dataset
• Ethical data dilemmas
• Community workshops

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Jenna Stolzman (front row, second from the left) and her collaborators at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX.

“By making this dataset accessible, it can help advance understanding, support model development, and enable the broader research community to improve methane emissions mitigation strategies.” #LoveData26 #LoveDataWeek @lovedataweek.bsky.social
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Our #OpeningtheFuture collections are now live! Learn how you can enhance your library collections while also supporting #openaccess publishing. buff.ly/KbNnBEI @michiganpublishing.bsky.social #librarians #academicsky

A seedling sprouting in a tropical dry forest in Colombia

“In the context of global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss, open data helps scientists work together across regions to develop more effective solutions.” #LoveData26 #LoveDataWeek @lovedataweek.bsky.social blogs.lib.umich.edu/bits-and-pie...

Save the Data! Love Data Week: February 9-13, 2026

Happy #LoveDataWeek! Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing blog posts that celebrate this year’s theme of “Where’s the Data?” about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation. Keep your eyes peeled! #LoveData26 @lovedataweek.bsky.social

Aerial view of snowy Greenland landscape at sunset

Funded by NSF and NASA, researchers studied the impacts of atmospheric rivers—long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport water vapor and can create rain or snow when they make landfall—in Greenland! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/8xhg... #AcademicSky

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No Fees. No Holds. Just Free eBooks. Get new open access books delivered straight to your inbox with our Voracious Reader newsletter. Sign up for our new mailing list below and select "free ebooks" in your email preferences: buff.ly/pGDsXEw

Green seedlings coming out of the soil

In an effort to expand information on regeneration ecology of tropical dry forests, researchers measured functional traits on 56 seedling species in 4 forests in Colombia. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/5kjr.... Funding: National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society.

Tourism and the Metropolis: Exploring  Conceptual and Geographical Frontiers The growing role and relevance of tourism in cities – and of cities in tourism – has in recent decades emerged as a topic of great interest to scholars across many social sciences disciplines. Yet,…

"Tourism and the Metropolis: Exploring Conceptual and Geographical Features" from @uwpress.bsky.social is now available to read online! Start reading here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...