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Fund to Mission

Since Fall 2020, the University of Michigan Press has been collaborating with our parent library and LYRASIS to implement our Fund to Mission open access monograph model. This program facilitates the conversion of an increasing percentage of the Press’s frontlist to open access without requiring inequitable author payments. Thanks to the financial support from the provost, nearly 200 library supporters, author-side funders, and sales of frontlist titles, the program continues to grow and offer top quality scholarship to readers worldwide. This International Open Access Week, we are excited to share that 2023 is the first year we have been able to publish 75% of our monographs Open Access!

These open access monographs are offered as part of the UMP Ebook Collection (UMP EBC), a comprehensive collection of over 1,800 of the University of Michigan Press’s scholarly ebooks for sale to libraries. In 2023 we will publish more than 80 scholarly monographs, 75% of which immediately became open access through our Fund to Mission program. This brings our full Open Access (OA) list to over 375 monographs that are free-to-read online! The full OA title list for 2023 can be found below.

Fulcrum and Usage Data

The UMP EBC is fully accessible on Fulcrum, a leading open-source platform for digital scholarship developed by the University of Michigan Library and Press, with support from the Mellon Foundation. Fulcrum offers users the ability to read books with associated digital enhancements, such as 3-D models; embedded audio, video, and databases; zoomable online images; and interactive media. We are proud that Fulcrum not only places a strong emphasis on durability, but that our production workflow is also Benetech Certified Global Accessible.

Since authors still want to know the impact of their scholarly monographs, the Press has partnered with the Book Analytics Dashboard to provide usage statistics of open access titles from various platforms. While the version of record for each monograph is on Fulcrum, the Press’s open access books are widely available through retailers and platforms including JSTOR, Project Muse, OAPEN, EBSCO, Proquest, and Science Open. In fact, anyone can visit our dashboard link to see how and where people are accessing our books. It currently shows that our open access titles have been used more than 2 million times across 229 countries!

2023 books included in Fund to Mission:

• Accustomed to Obedience? Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE by Joshua P. Nudell
• Administering Justice: Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics by Richard Vining and Teena Wilhelm
• Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind: Tampering with Myths by Caryl Flinn
• Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters by Anthony B. Sanders
• Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death by Sarah O’Brien
• Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice Edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi
• Collateral Damage: The Influence of Political Rhetoric on the Incorporation of Second-Generation Americans by Sean Richey
• Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Ruth Sacks
• Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang by Sijia Yao
• Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism by Taiyi Sun
• Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt by Amir M. Kamel
• Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy by Srinivas Parinandi
• Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor by Nir Kshetri
• Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not by Walter Hatch
• Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater Edited by Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker
• How Informal Institutions Matter: Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres by Zeki Sarigil
• Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance by Emily Houlik-Ritchey
• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions by Amy Lai
• In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation by Ryan Claycomb
• International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction Edited by Fanny Badache, Leah R Kimber, and Lucile Maertens
• Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice by Ajay Heble and Jesse Stewart
• Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater by Carla Della Gatta
• Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography by Ian Klinke
• Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema by Pavitra Sundar
• Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work by Joseph B. Entin
• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies Edited by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets
• Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law Edited by Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan
• Mediterranean in Dis/order: Space, Power, and Identity by Rosita Di Peri and Daniel Meier
• Memetic Rhetorics: Toward a Toolkit for Ethical Meming by Derek M. Sparby
• Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York by Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles
• Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist: The Films of Suzuki Seijun by Peter A. Yacavone
• Ohio under COVID: Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis Edited by Katherine Sorrels, Lora Arduser, Danielle Bessett, Vanessa Carbonell, Michelle McGowan, and Edward Wallace
• Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters by Angie Chau
• Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by Zhiyi Yang
• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War by Stuart Streichler
• Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A Dubin
• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing by Ina Linge
• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway by Katie N. Johnson
• Realisms in East Asian Performance Edited by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li
• Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus by Arum Park
• Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China by Jérôme Doyon
• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy by Mel Stanfill
• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity edited by Elizabeth Affuso; Suzanne Scott
• Security. Cooperation. Governance.: The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox edited by Christian Leuprecht; Todd Hataley
• Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics Edited by Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner
• Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia by Luke Munn
• The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era by Emily H.C. Chua
• The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future by Amanda Apgar
• The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World Edited by Debra Caplan and Rachel M. Moss
• The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing by Michael J.Z. Mannheimer
• The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West by Alexander William Salter and Andrew T Young
• The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute by Patrick Nickelson
• The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art by Erin Brannigan
• The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality by Aaron J. Rosenthal
• The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing by Melanie McMahon
• Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency by Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
• Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music by Sarah Politz
• Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage by Jody Enders
• Twilight of the American State by Pierre Schlag
• Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Stefka Mihaylova
• Walking the Gendered Tightrope: Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders by Melissa Haussman; Karen M. Kedrowski
• Warping Time: How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present, and Future by Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner
• Women in German Expressionism: Gender, Sexuality, Activism Edited by Anke Finger and Julie Shoults