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University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection offers access to over 1,500 e-book titles (growing by around 80 books a year) on a perpetual purchase acquisition model. The collection offers a range of humanities titles. Their Fund to Mission aims to convert at least 75% of its monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay.
University of Michigan Press [UMP] aims to convert at least 75% of its monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay. The Press is working to build a sustainable model by achieving stable funding for this monograph program from three sources: annual funding from the library community, recurring funds from the U-M Provost, and other funder payments. Please see Fund to Mission for further information.
Institutions may license:
How Fund to Mission works:
Funds support authors' ability to publish innovative, digital scholarship leveraging the next-generation, and the open-source Fulcrum platform.
Years 2012-2021 are available separately or as a bundle.
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Fulcrum accessibility statement
All titles in UMP EBC are available for download in EPUB and pdf formats, with the exception of a handful of titles only available in one format. In all cases, we recommend the EPUB format as the accessible format. All EPUBs in the UMP EBC have been designed following the Fulcrum EPUB Specification, designed to ensure compatibility with assistive technology and are more likely to contain image descriptions. However, we recognise not all print disabled users prefer EPUB and will remediate pdf files with textual descriptions of images upon request.
WCAG 2.0/2.1 compliant? Level of compliance (rating)?
Fulcrum aims to meet the latest WCAG 2 AA Standards (currently WCAG 2.1 AA) in two ways:
We report Fulcrum's compliance with WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 in a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT®) Version 2.3 INT. We report content compliance 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.
What is the maximum font size and does text re-flow when you enlarge the font?
In the Fulcrum Reader, a book's text can be zoomed up to 400% through the Preferences and Settings menu. Switching to scroll view is recommended when enlarging the text as this will shift the text from two columns to one. The text is reflowable.
Can a user change background/foreground colours or contrasts? How?
While there is no built-in contrast feature, operating system contrast accessibility features and browser extensions such as High Contrast for Chrome should work with the Fulcrum Reader in addition to all other Fulcrum pages.
Are there keyboard-only equivalents for all mouse actions? Where could I find a list? Are there short cut keys to reduce tabbing round links?
In the Fulcrum Reader, all of the pages, and media content such as videos, audio, and images should be accessible via standard keyboard controls only (no use of a mouse required).
Standard keyboard controls include:
Stats charts and some specialised content, such as 3D models, cannot be controlled via keyboard.
Left and right arrow keys in the Fulcrum Reader provide shortcuts for easy page flipping or scrolling.
Using scroll mode in the Fulcrum Reader, Page Up and Page Down and up and down arrow keys also allow for page scrolling.
The default video player shortcuts are as follows:
(The modifier keys can be changed through video keyboard settings.)
Is text marked up so it can be navigated in a meaningful way (for example by heading level)?
Yes, the table of contents includes section and chapter titles that are easily navigable.
Can text be selected and read by text-to-speech tools?
Fulcrum should be compatible with most major screen readers, but is optimised for use with NVDA in Firefox. New features are tested with NVDA in Firefox and VoiceOver in Safari. Fulcrum should be compatible with recent versions of the following screen readers:
The site should also be compatible with:
Are text descriptions available for all relevant graphics and images?
All titles published after 2019 contain at least basic textual descriptions of images, however these descriptions are only contained within EPUB files. All audio and video associated with books produced after 2018 have transcripts or captions available. Some supplemental content has been reformatted from print to digital and may not contain Optical Character Recognition text. If OCR text has been included, it has not been corrected.
Where can I find the accessibility statement for this product? Please provide a link.
Accessibility statement: https://www.fulcrum.org/accessibility/
UMP EBC VPAT 2.3: https://www.fulcrum.org/docs/Fulcrum-UMPEBC-VPAT2.3INT-20200519.pdf
Users access the collection via IP authentication, Shibboleth service through the UK Federation. More information about authentication can be found here: https://tools.lib.umich.edu/confluence/display/FPS/UMP+EBC.
There is federated searching.
UMP EBC is OpenURL compliant on the title, but not 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 title'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 are freely available and can be downloaded here.
U-M Library uses the descriptive metadata standard when creating UMP EBC records.
At this time, the Fulcrum platform does not allow for individual institution personalisation. The development team at Michigan Publishing is working on implementing authentication changes that will display institutional logo when provided. More information will be provided to institutions who purchase.
Users can refine their search, save their search results, email their search history and save results as citations.
Users can complete a search on the platform using faceted search options on the left-hand side (access level, subject, author, publisher, series) as well as from the search bar (which searches top-level metadata). We are working with 67 Bricks to implement full-text search by 2022, but it is not currently available.
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 our technical FAQ here: https://tools.lib.umich.edu/confluence/display/FPS/UMP+EBC.