67 Bricks is delighted to announce a new partnership with University of Michigan Press. The partnership with its first US-based university press customer sees 67 Bricks broadening its client list, which already includes some of the most respected names in academic publishing across UK and Europe. 

University of Michigan Press produces over 100 new titles each year in the humanities and social sciences. Titles have earned numerous awards, including Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Joe A. Callaway Award and the press has published works by authors who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

The team’s initial aim is to enable University of Michigan Press to reinvent the search and browse of its own ebook collection, University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC), and two other important collections hosted on the open-source Fulcrum platform: The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book Collection (ACLS HEB) and The British Archaeological Reports BAR Digital Collection (eBAR). 

67 Bricks’ approach will focus on defining the right technical approach to meet user needs and building a solution to solve the current search problems. 67 Bricks’ head of client services David Leeming said: “Users will get richer, more detailed search results and the organisation will have the technical capabilities in place should they want to flex to meet future user needs.”

David added: “Winning our first university press client in the US is a real milestone for us.  University presses are under a huge amount of pressure to digitise and improve and COVID-19 has only accelerated the need to deliver improved user experiences and new products and services. It is a vote of confidence that this storied US press concluded that we are the experts who can help them achieve this.”

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For more information on how 67 Bricks help publishers reinvent themselves in the digital age visit www.67bricks.com 

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Media Contact: Esther Harris, Marketing Executive, 67 Bricks esther.harris@67bricks.com 

About 67 Bricks

67 Bricks is a software development consultancy based in Oxford, UK.  Our team of talented developers and market experts help publishers build information products for the data-driven world. Flexible,modern content platforms, AI, machine learning, natural language processing – we build and apply these in the deepest, most problematic parts of publishing businesses where they really make an impact and deliver most value. The result? Content platforms fit for the digital age, user-led experiences and the ability to continuously innovate and build new revenue streams.

We are proud to partner with some of the most respected names in scholarly publishing including Sage, Taylor & Francis, Emerald Publishing, Wiley and British Medical Journal to name a few.

About University of Michigan Press 

The University of Michigan Press is a vital component of UM Library's Michigan Publishing, which is the primary academic publishing division of the University. In partnership with our authors and series editors, we publish in a wide range of humanities and social science disciplines. We champion the Library's research and scholarly communication missions through our global digital and print publishing and distribution programs.

Together with our authors, we also play a critical role in the teaching and learning mission of the University by applying new pedagogies to the development of instructional materials that promote college success for students. To address the educational and information needs of our regional readers, the Press also produces publications on Michigan and the Great Lakes region.

The Press, with our rich history of publishing expertise, continues to lead in the development of digital scholarship and to support the dissemination of knowledge as widely and freely as possible.