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Dear all,

You are invited to the free UKSG webinar: "Digital Scholarship and the Future of the Book" | https://bit.ly/36IvQt9

Date: Tuesday 16 June 2020

Time: 14.30 BST (British Summer Time)

Duration: 45-60 minutes including Q&A

Chair:

Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director, University of Michigan Press.

Presenters:

Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music Professor, The Ohio State University
Matthew Naglak, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Boston College
Rachel Opitz, Lecturer in Spatial Archaeometry at the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Marc Opper, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Randolph-Macon College

Overview:

Scholarly authors are increasingly using digital tools. They want to produce enhanced ebooks and interactive scholarly works, but these tend not to fit into existing publisher and librarian workflows. Fulcrum is a platform developed at the University of Michigan that supports authors who want to push the boundaries of the book. The University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) includes an increasing number of enhanced titles and takes full advantage of the rich features on the Fulcrum platform. Thanks to the support of purchasing libraries, UMP EBC is able to sustain the publication of new forms of scholarship, including open access titles, and sustain the open-source, community-based scholarly infrastructure. In this webinar attendees will learn about this new form of scholarship, including how it is being sustained by the community via UMP EBC and Fulcrum, and walk away with inspired to sustain this burgeoning community.

General information:

This is a free webinar and open to all – Please note that advance registration is required. If you are interested, but unable to join the live event, please register anyway as a recording will be made available to all who register. If you have particular accessibility needs, please feel free to contact me on samira@uksg.org

Thank you for your attention. I hope you can join us.

Samira Koelle | UKSG | samira@uksg.org

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