in new media studies and digital humanities. The imprint began in 2006 as a partnership between MLibrary and the press, taking advantage of the skills and expertise of staff throughout Michigan Publishing. Its primary goal is to be an incubator for new publishing models in the humanities and social sciences. Fulcrum Fulcrum is a publishing platform that the press has developed with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in partnership with Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State Universities. Fulcrum helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, and flexible form. With Fulcrum, scholarly authors can link source materials—including images, video and audio clips, and three-dimensional interactive models—to book-length interpretations of them in an integrated way. These digital objects can be published as supplemental materials, with the book elsewhere, or both narrative and data can be presented together. Knowledge Unlatched The University of Michigan Press is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books, and has included three titles in the Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection. Imprints and series Imprints English Language Teaching digitalculturebooks Series The University of Michigan Press publishes numerous ongoing series, including: Class : Culture Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics Corporealities: Discourses on Disability Digital Humanities Jazz Perspectives Law, Meaning, and Violence Legislative Politics and Policy Making Michigan Modern Dramatists New Comparative Politics Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Poets on Poetry Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Tracking Pop Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance Under Discussion Controversies In June 2008, the University of Michigan Press severed ties with the British independent publishing firm, Pluto Press for which it served as the American distributor. The decision came after a series of events tied to the distribution of the 2007 book Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel, which argues "that the creation of Israel was a mistake and urges adoption of the 'one state' solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Israelis and Palestinians would form a new country, without a Jewish character". The University of Michigan Press ceased distributing the book in the Fall of 2007, after "serious questions" were raised about the book by "members of the university community." In addition, the relationship between the University of Michigan Press and Pluto Press came under examination by the faculty committee that oversees the press. Later in September,