
Charles Watkinson (he/him/his)
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Director of University of Michigan Press; Associate University Librarian, Publishing, U-M Library; Past-President, Association of University Presses. Views own.
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https://www.publishing.umich.edu/ 17-04-2009 19:49:03
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Launching this list in time for #APSA2024. University of Michigan Press authors, your books aren't just of interest to your colleagues. What you write matters to the world. Want us to publish your book #OpenAccess? We'd love to. Don't have any money for a subvention? We'll cover the costs.

Thank you UoM Library for helping make this important book available #OpenAccess through the support of the University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission program, ebc.press.umich.edu

How accurate are Wikipedia citations? With Digital Science help, we asked the University of Michigan Press authors of the works cited. Here's what we found: arxiv.org/abs/2409.11948 (Fun to work with Mike Taylor, Carlos Areia, Kath Burton on this study.)

Thank you Big Ten Academic for your kind "mouse warming" present for the new offices of University of Michigan Press. Our mouses love ❤️ their new mats!



From the heart of the USA, Ann Arbor MI, to the heart of London, Westminster UK: Excited to welcome University of Westminster Press to the open-source Fulcrum platform and the Michigan Publishing academy-owned environment: uwestminsterpress.co.uk

What election day in Michigan looks like out of the University of Michigan Press window. And how we are celebrating democracy online: press.umich.edu/Books/Dialogue…



Want to know the truth about Greenland and arctic security? University of Michigan Press has a free, new #openaccess book for that, press.umich.edu/Books/G/Greenl…

Fun to look back at the surge in usage that University of Michigan Press books experienced in 2024 as our "Fund to Mission" #openaccess program (see video) gains momentum. 10,000 accesses per OA book on average, but human reader stories are the best. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025-0…


Kate McCready (Big Ten Academic) and I (U-M Library) are proud to have had our paper accepted for the ACRL 2025 meeting. "Look to the Champions of Freedom for All: How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access" can be downloaded here: doi.org/pd79

Today, March 31 is #TransDayOfVisibility! 🏳️⚧️ #TDOV. I am proud that University of Michigan Press publishes so many books that celebrate trans people's contributions to enriching global culture and society. Thank you, transformistas, for continuing to cultivate "trans/queer space that is beautiful,


Missing Joshua Bilmes at the U-M Library Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker interview with legendary director Alan Rudolph. The first Bilmes University of Michigan Press "Out of the Archives" book is about Trouble in Mind (1985) - thanks to Joshua, the book is #OpenAccess here: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Alan-R…


Awesome to be viewing the AUPresses 📚 annual meeting together as guests of Wayne State University Press. The three Michigan university presses are strong together. Go MSU Press University of Michigan Press Wayne State University Press!

