UMP EBC Technical FAQ
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Q: What is the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection?
A: The UMP University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) is a collection of scholarly ebooks published by the University of Michigan Press that was first made available for sale to libraries on January 10, 2019. It is hosted on our own Fulcrum platform and sold to libraries by LYRASIS, a non-profit organization that acts as an agent for its 1,200 members (and other clients) to buy content collections and technology solutions. The commitment we make to libraries is that the collection will include at least 80 new books every year as well as a growing backlist, starting with at least 1,000 titles on launch.
Q: What titles are included and excluded for UMP EBC?
A: UMP EBC is a comprehensive collection of all new scholarly University of Michigan Press books, including both specialist monographs and adoptable course books. It does not include titles for which the Press does not have ebook rights, regional trade titles, or true textbooks (mostly the Press’s English Language Teaching titles). It contains distributed titles unless those are specifically opted out. A complete list of all titles in the collection is available that not only shows which books are included in the collection, but also indicates which are not and why.
Q: Do open access books appear in UMP EBC?
A: Yes, they do. However, libraries are not charged for theseIn January 2021, the Press announced its plan to transition to an open access monograph model termed Fund to Mission. Read more about Fund to Mission here.
Q: How are frontlist titles added to UMP EBC?
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A: Fulcrum works best with reflowable EPUB3 files and we have focused initially on making sure that we have these for the period period 2018-2012. Prior to 2012 our ebook formats are more variable and so we have defined the “archive” collection (in which very few years are currently complete) as 2011 and prior.
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- 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
- Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
- You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.
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