This is part 8 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program. In one of his first dispatches from Liverpool, Terence noted to the team back home:

the energy at the press is incredible and catching. All the more because so many of the staff have traveled from afar—Oxford, Dublin, and even as far away as Poland!—to be a part of the sessions. The more we delve into what Manifold can do the more everyone is looking to push what we've built in ways we haven't yet considered.

This is part 7 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program. Last week Terence was ensconced at home in Minneapolis at the heart of the polar vortex, learning first hand what a wind chill of fifty below felt like. This week he fled journeyed to Kingston, Jamaica to meet with the good folks from the University of the West Indies Press, where the Manifold program is being led by the press's management team: Joseph B. Powell, General Manager; Nadine Buckland, Finance Manager; and Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager.

This is part 6 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program. Last week Terence set off on his first trip of 2019, journeying to Atlanta to meet with faculty and staff across Emory University. Unlike other pilot programs, Manifold at Emory isn’t centered around a university press or library. Instead the initiative is being spearheaded by Sarah McKee of the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and Wayne Morse, Allen Tullos, and Yang Li of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, for use by students and faculty with local projects and programming and as a means to introduce the community at large to new modes of publication that publishers with whom local scholars may already be working can take advantage.

This month the combined team had our face-to-face at the Cast Iron Coding offices in Portland, Oregon, where our hosts managed to feed us both Portland culture and delicious food and get through an agenda packed with tricky topics and complicated concerns.

Minnesota and New York trickled into PDX Wednesday to crystal blue skies and brilliant sunlight illuminating Mt. Hood. After some Powell’s pilgrimages and art museuming, we met up at Ringler’s for casual convening. Even the requisite Grateful Dead cover band couldn’t keep conversation off the forthcoming questions of preservation, pilot projects, and bug-fix workflows.

This is part 5 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program. At the University of Cincinnati Press, Manifold is in the capable hands of Elizabeth Scarpelli, Press Director. Terence headed to Cincinnati almost immediately on the heels of the team’s Portland face-to-face (recap blog post to follow), so he was well primed to address their hopes and challenges.

This is part 4 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program. This week brought Terence to Temple University Press in Philadelphia! Given his American Ninja Warrior tendencies, he’d planned to run the “Rocky stairs” at the art museum, but after a recent injury, he opted to spend that time resting and recuperating over a lovely Indian dinner.The Manifold pilot at Temple is being spearheaded by Mary Rose Muccie, Director, Temple University Press and Scholarly Communications Officer, Temple University Libraries, and Annie Johnson, Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications Specialist, Temple University Libraries. Terence had the chance to meet with both and remarked:

This is part 3 of the Travels with Terence series, following our digital projects editor on his pilot press in-person training program.

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Travels with Terence, Part 2#

In honor of OA Week, we’re taking the chance to do a spotlight on our first Manifold Digital Services Pilot press—Athabasca University Press, Canada’s first open access scholarly press!

Terence traveled to Edmonton, Alberta, this week to work with AU Press, and, it would seem, to eat his fair share of Tim Horton’s.

Manifold makes it easy to get your collections online. The more projects we loaded to our Manifold instances, the more we realized that the ordering of the projects, handled arbitrarily by an algorithm, wasn't allowing us to present our materials as we would like. Despite the ease afforded by the automatic population of titles, we wanted to be able to respond to current events, showcase new releases, share titles relevant to scholarly conferences, group titles by series, and generally control what appears on the site’s homepage.

Cast Iron Coding was on it.