Rotunda is releasing three new digital editions of volumes from the Adams Papers project (sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and published by Harvard University Press) in Rotunda’s Adams Papers Digital Edition.
Our Dolley Madison Digital Edition, edited by Holly C. Shulman, has been updated with 300 new documents, 360 additional identifications of people, places, and terms, and six new editorial essays exploring aspects of Dolley’s life during her widowhood in the 1840s.
We have added Presidential Series volume 16 to our Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, published by our Rotunda electronic imprint. This volume contains over 500 documents from 1 May through 30 September 1794.
In 2004, what had been known since its establishment two years earlier as the “Electronic Imprint” of UVA Press was branded as “Rotunda”, and we produced our first website to go along with it, at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu. With a design by Bill Covert centered on an award-winning logo, the site has served us well for eight years as the public face of Rotunda and a gateway to our publications. But with the new year, we have moved all of our general descriptive content about Rotunda to a hierarchy under the ROTUNDA tab on the Press website.
If you are reading this post, you have arrived at the redesigned University of Virginia Press website, scheduled for its public beta launch on 18 November 2011. It is powered by a combination of WordPress and MarkLogic Server, with book search and display fed by an automated ONIX XML workflow rather than the time consuming [...]