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MT Open Press is a library-based publisher that supports authors with free production services and encourages everyone to read free digital books.
MT Open Press books have had 5,000+ downloads from readers around the world. We also have a current open call for book proposals for the 2025-2026 author cycle. Proposals are accepted from December 3, 2024 to March 3, 2025. See the book proposal form for more information.
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Read more: MT Open Press—Read and Write More BooksMT Open Press is a library-based publisher that supports authors with free production services and encourages everyone to read free digital books. MT Open Press books have had 5,000+ downloads from readers around the world. We also have a current open call for book proposals for the 2025-2026 author cycle. Proposals are accepted from December 3, 2024…
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Read more: New publication addressing inclusive design as a method and craftNew publication addressing inclusive design as a method and craft now available. A new resource for project design in UX/UI and project design in the digital social sciences and humanities is now available as an open access book chapter published in 2024.
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Read more: DSI Lab project won Best Virtual Exhibit AwardIn May 2024, a DSI Lab project won the PR Xchange Award Competition for best virtual exhibit. The project applies a digital social science lens to promote holistic health and wellness with inclusive design strategies. The Lab Team included faculty and graduate students with interdisciplinary backgrounds including interactive information retrieval, health/wellness, and professional counseling. The…
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Read more: MT Open Press—Winter Break SaleEnjoy up to 25% off books published by Middle Tennessee State University from December 14 to January 13.
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Read more: Book Launch: Intercultural Engagement Through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study AbroadAnnouncing the newly released book, Intercultural Engagement Through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad: A Practitioner’s Guide with Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Public University Congratulations to MTSU faculty, Priya Ananth and Seok Jeng Jane Lim (editors), and their chapter contributors! They published an edited monograph on September 15, 2023, titled Intercultural Engagement Through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad:…
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Read more: Announcing the Final Projects for the Digital Seed Grants 2022-2023The Digital Seed Grant (https://dsi.mtsu.edu) had impressive applications for its sixth year. The Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Library Dean decided to award four grants for the 2022-2023 academic year. The AY 22-23 awardees were announced on the website at https://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant22-23. Below is a summary of the four winning projects and resulting outcomes. A…
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Read more: Book Launch: Privacy and Safety in Online LearningAnnouncing the newly released book, Privacy and Safety in Online Learning Congratulations to MTSU faculty, Denise FitzGerald Quintel and Amy York, and their chapter contributors! They published Privacy and Safety in Online Learning, an edited monograph on January 31, 2023. This is the first book published under the James E. Walker Library’s MT Open Press…
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Read more: Announcing the Final Projects for the Digital Seed Grants 2021-2022The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had impressive applications for its fifth year (award period 2021-2022), which initially launched in 2016 for the award period of 2017-2018. The Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Library Dean decided to award three grants for the 2021-2022 academic year. The AY 21-22 awardees were announced on the website at…
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Read more: Digital Seed Grants 2022-2023 AwardedOver summer 2022, the Digital Seed Grant Committee received applications for its sixth year of awarding Digital Seed Grants. The proposals received were of high quality despite the impact of Covid-19, and Walker Library is committed to keeping the library’s charge of accelerating teaching and research with digital technologies and methodologies. One way the library…
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Read more: Announcing the Final Projects for the Digital Seed Grants 2020-2021The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had impressive applications for its fourth year (award period 2020-2021), which initially launched in 2016 for the award period of 2017-2018. The Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Library Dean decided to award two grants for the 2020-2021 academic year and extended this into 2022 to help projects impacted by…