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University of Michigan Press E-book Collection 2021

  • Start: 1 Sep 2020
    Expiry: 31 Aug 2119
  • Description:

    University of Michigan Press' E-book Collection offers access to over 1,500 scholarly e-book titles across the humanities and social sciences (growing by around 80 books a year) on a perpetual purchase acquisition model.

Product overview

The new University of Michigan Press E-book Collection (UMP EBC) is a collection of new scholarly e-books and an extensive backlist collection. The collection features peer-reviewed, faculty-selected content in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with particular strength in political science, performing arts, classics and archaeology, and American studies.

This agreement offers perpetual access to the Frontlist collection (titles published in 2021), or any year of the Backlist (2012-2020). The Complete Backlist is also available. On purchasing the Frontlist your institution will be given complementary access to the entire UMP e-book catalogue for one year.

In addition, an Early Adopter Discount of 5% will apply to all orders for Frontlist or Backlist collections placed before 31 August 2021.

The e-books are hosted on the Fulcrum platform, with the back-up option of copies provided for local hosting by your institution.

A full list of available titles can be found on the Publisher's website: UMP E-book Collection.

Link to UMP EBC collection on Fulcrum

Link to UMP EBC collection information for librarians

Link to UMP EBC OA MARC record bundle

Link to UMP EBC course adoptable book list

Publisher selection policy

Content is selected by an advisory board composed of leading scholars, editors, librarians and university administrators.

Backfiles or archives included

Complementary access to the entire catalogue (2012 to current year) is offered for one year when a perpetual purchase of any collection is made. The backlist includes over 1,500 titles between 2012-2020. UMP is continuing to add additional titles from years prior to 2012.

Update Type

Mixed

Update Notes

Approximately 80 new titles are published each year.

Accessibility

Titles are hosted on the Fulcrum platform. From https://fulcrum.org/accessibility:

Fulcrum aims to meet the latest WCAG 2 AA Standards (currently WCAG 2.1 AA) in two ways:

  • Developing a platform with infrastructure that meets web accessibility guidelines and includes accessibility features.
  • Creating and sharing resources that help publishers produce accessible content.

Fulcrum's compliance with WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 is reported in a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT®) Version 2.3 INT. Content compliance is reported in collection specific VPATs. The most recent UMP EBC VPAT can be found here: https://www.fulcrum.org/docs/Fulcrum-UMPEBC-VPAT2.3INT-20200519.pdf.

Additional information about accessibility features, compatibility, and known issues can be found here: https://www.fulcrum.org/accessibility.

If you have any further questions, please email fulcrum-info@umich.edu.

Authentication

IP Address Updates

If you would like to add an IP address to your authorised range (or remove one), please send us your update request by contacting membersupport@lyrasis.org, and the data will be forwarded to the technical support team.

Shibboleth/OpenAthens/SSO

Fulcrum supports access for your institution's members through federated Single Sign-On technologies such as Shibboleth or OpenAthens. Fulcrum is a member of InCommon and participates in eduGAIN. Allowing your members to access UMP EBC via your Shibboleth/OpenAthens Identity Provider requires the following:

  1. Your institution must have a SAML-based Identity Provider (IdP) whose metadata we can consume via a stable URL and which defines a security domain using shibMD:scope. This is most commonly achieved through membership to an identity federation that participates in eduGAIN. The following federations have been confirmed to support access to Fulcrum via eduGAIN as of November 2019:
    • Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
    • HEAnet/Edugate
    • InCommon
    • UK Federation
  2. Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute "eduPersonScopedAffiliation" to entityId "https://fulcrum.org/sp".
  3. You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.

Full text linking

UMP EBC is OpenURL compliant on the title level, but not on the chapter and page level. In order to offer the most stable link to an individual title, you may use the title-specific digital object identifier, or DOI, which can be found in the book's catalogue record, and the format for which matches the following example: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9853855

The Citable Link may be used to link to a title in the UMP EBC collection on syllabi and course packs or on learning management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas and D2L.

Marc records

MARC records are available free to purchasers of UMP EBC and can be downloaded here: https://umich.app.box.com/s/oxuimlw7m656w9ngpjfwim10zdqxy5at.

Post search options

Users can refine their search, save their search results, email their search history and save results as citations.

Search options

Basic searches can be by author, title, and subject. Advanced searches are possible using boolean operators, and proximity, bibliographic, and series searches.

Usage statistics

Libraries can access their COUNTER 5 usage statistics at https://fulcrum.org/counter_reprts. Access to this page is authenticated via IP address, so no separate admin/login information is needed. You may need to alter the previous link to a proxied URL in order for IP authentication to work. For more information, please visit the technical FAQ here: https://tools.lib.umich.edu/confluence/display/FPS/UMP+EBC.