Case Studies

UNC Press translated an author's vision into reality

Understanding how black political organization evolved at the end of the Civil War required author Nicole Myers Turner to learn and apply GIS mapping techniques. To ensure that her interactive maps could be integrated into the resulting title, Soul Liberty, UNC Press turned to Fulcrum to cost-effectively deliver an enhanced ebook, stably hosted on a branded website.

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Fifty Liberal Arts Colleges found a partner not just a platform

The collective governance and funding model isn’t the only innovation behind Lever Press. Supporting new forms of digital scholarship was a core goal of the founding libraries. Partnering with Fulcrum for web design, production services, and platform hosting enables even the most complex Lever Press publication to be discoverable, durable, and accessible.

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BAR Publishing builds a future for the past on its own terms

Partnering to bring the world’s largest collection of academic archaeology monographs online for the first time ever was just the beginning. Sustained by library sales of its 3,500 book collection, now BAR Publishing is working with Fulcrum to create the archaeological report of the future with integrated data, rich multimedia, and the digital affordances scholars need.

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A Mid-Republican House from Gabii

Since 2009 the Gabii Project, an international archaeological initiative led by Nicola Terrenato and the University of Michigan, has been investigating the ancient Latin town of Gabii, which was both a neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BCE. The trajectory of Gabii, from an Iron Age settlement to a flourishing mid-Republican town to an Imperial agglomeration widely thought to be in decline, provides a new perspective on the dynamics of settlement in central Italy. A Mid-Republican House from Gabii focuses on the construction, inhabitation, and repurposing of a private home at Gabii, built in the mid-Republican period. Published in digital form as a website backed up by a detailed database, the publication provides a synthesis of excavation results linked to the relevant spatial, descriptive, and quantitative data. Fulcrum brings together the database, narrative, and interactive 3D model of the reconstructed ancient site to give the user a seamless reading experience, presenting the narrative and 3D model side by side and including comprehensive linking throughout all components enabling the reader to move through the project in a number of ways.

Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

Show Sold Separately gives critical attention to the ubiquitous but often overlooked phenomenon of audiences approaching movies and TV shows with preconceived notions about them, shaped by the onslaught of information and hype that surround them. This book examines a wide range of materials from DVD bonus materials to action figures that reveal the world of film and television that exists before and after the show. New York University Press used Fulcrum to host the book’s impressive array of video clips and images that are embedded in the EPUB, which is available for reading in the New York University Press Open Access Books portal. The videos are presented using AblePlayer, a fully-accessible cross-browser media player. Users are able to pan and zoom the images from within the e-reader, using the Leaflet viewer. Users are able to enjoy these media assets from the comfort of the e-reader environment, providing them an integrated, seamless reading experience.

The Director's Prism: E.T.A. Hoffman and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde

The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Fulcrum allowed Northwestern University Press to publish video clips of theatrical productions, an audio file, and additional full color images that can be viewed in more detail with Fulcrum's image viewer.

Canoes: A Natural History in North America

Canoes: A Natural History explores the cultural history of one of North America's totemic artifacts, featuring canoes old and new, from birch bark to dugout to carbon fiber; the people who made them; and the adventures they shared. Fulcrum allowed University of Minnesota Press to make all the images in the book available for more detailed viewing and investigation, while preserving these digital objects and their associated metadata in a repository environment.

Animal Acts: Performing Species Today

Animal Acts is a unique collection that explores the fields of animal studies and performance studies, highlighting the areas where these two fields overlap in surprising, provocative, and insightful ways. Eleven stories by solo performers are accompanied by commentary from scholars and artists. Fulcrum allowed the University of Michigan Press to publish video excerpts of several of the performances discussed in the book.

A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

In this book, Mark Pedelty explores Cascadia's vibrant eco-musical community in order to understand how environmentalist music imagines, and perhaps even creates, a more sustainable conception of place. Fulcrum enabled Indiana University Press to make available several music videos and songs by well-known musician and environmental activist Dana Lyons.

Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City

Volume 2 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water by Robert Darden, continues the journey started in Volume 1 of chronicling the role music played in energizing and sustaining those most heavily involved in the civil rights movement. On Fulcrum, Penn State University Press was able to present an impressive array of images and interview transcripts collected by the author to support his scholarship. While the interview transcripts are not hosted on Fulcrum, the platform provides a durable landing page for each transcript, which then links to the externally hosted file. This gives the reader the ability to explore all of the materials in a much more cohesive manner.

Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials: The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions

In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. Within hours after that historic march, klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider’s view of the three trials that took place over the following nine months -- which finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. On Fulcrum, one can explore multiple court documents, including court transcripts, exhibits, and memoranda to get a better, deeper understanding about this historic case and the times in which it was tried.