MDPx Projects and Organizations

MDPx Projects and Organizations

This is a list of projects and organizations under the monicker MDPx or Michigan Digital Publishing (exchange).

Fulcrum

Fulcrum is a community-based, open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form.

Fulcrum has been developed by a group of campus-based publishers working closely with disciplinary faculty and information science specialists who recognize the changing nature of scholarly publishing in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. Initial development has been supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and implemented by the University of Michigan Library and Press working with partners from Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State universities.

Manifold

Manifold Scholarship is an open-source publishing platform that enables authors and publishers a means to showcase and enhance the electronic content they already produce in their existing workflows: texts are displayed in a responsive, elegant reader crafted for all modern browsers and devices—desktop and mobile. Powerful built-in annotation and commenting systems allow readers to annotate, highlight, discuss, cite, and share passages from any Manifold text. Resources that are foundational to a particular discussion but that are often tabled because of physical, technical, logistic, or legal limitations can be layered dynamically and directly onto the digital text. And with Manifold, a new kind of publication is possible, one where authors create projects that grow iteratively and that are published online as they are created and then later in print, when they have been codified as versions of record. In short, Manifold transforms scholarly publications into living digital works.

The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York has been awarded a $732,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Manifold Scholarship. The development of Manifold is performed by Cast Iron Coding, a digital development agency in Portland, Oregon.

Vega

Vega provides publishers and authors with the means to produce high quality academic publications that make use of rich media, source data, video, and interactive experiences. Vega offers flexible editorial and production workflows with real-time collaboration for authors, editors and reviewers. Vega is completely customizable in workflows and presentation to suit the needs of individual publishers. Vega is open source with a permissive license and will be available for free download as well as hosted options for academic publishers worldwide.

Vega is funded by the Mellon Foundation, designed and developed by Bengler under the direction of West Virginia University, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and Wayne State University Libraries.

Pilcrow

Pilcrow is an open source web tool representing the values and intent of Collaborative Community Review (CCR) meant for handling peer reviews of multimedia (especially written) intended to be published by journals or publications. Pilcrow will be used to satisfy the various needs of the peer review process for works in academic and public scholarship. It has been funded via grant by the Mellon Foundation. Pilcrow will supplement the Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ) headed by Dean Christopher Long at MSU.

The Commons (Humanities Commons)

Humanities Commons is a nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work. The Humanities Commons network is open to anyone. The platform serves nearly 25,000 members, and supports five participating organizations.

The Commons has become a key piece of online scholarly infrastructure in the humanities, providing an open access platform for connecting members with fellow scholars, sharing their work, and developing their online presence and network. The platform will continue to grow with the launch of STEM Commons and Social Science Commons in 2021, bringing the same tools, presence, and open-access repository to new disciplines.

HuMetricsHSS

The HuMetricsHSS initiative endeavors to help create and support frameworks that enable members of the academy writ large to reflect upon and identify the core values that animate their work, to consider how their values align with those of the institutions in which they work, and to develop indicators of impact that demonstrate how these values are enacted in the practices and the products of their work.

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