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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoHi all, a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. We note that cOAlition S have recognised the OABN as a useful forum for community engagement in their statement…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic How to use the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoHi all,
Just a quick note to flag that we’ve switched off the Events calendar function on the site. People weren’t engaging with it, so instead of spending time updating it we’ll be focused on coordinating talks and workshops, fostering discussion, and making more people aware of this network. Anyone interested in a calendar of OA events might…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic OERs, Benefits and Perceptions in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited Lectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoLectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). Folien der Videopräsentation.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Aristocratic neo-Gothicism in fourteenth-century Iberia: the case of Count Pedro of Barcelos in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOne of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOn the project pirate.care
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Valeria Graziano deposited Covid-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practic…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited CARING LETTERS FROM MY LOVING MOTHER 慈暉魚雁昭 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Caring Letters From My Loving Mother 慈暉魚雁昭 . In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 12, December 2021; 111 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL3-…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Niloofar Haeri. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThrough offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]
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Rooney Pinto started the topic Van Dijk’s “context theory” and dynamics of social memory. in the discussion
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHow does van Dijk’s Context Theory contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of social memory?
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Luis de Orueta deposited Vivre à la Maison Smith de Richard Meier in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDans ce court essai, l’auteur examine l’effet d’un bâtiment emblématique sur la conduite de la personne qui y vit. Il prend comme référence la première maison que le célèbre architecte a conçue et projette son irradiation sur des expériences autobiographiques qui couvrent de multiples aspects de la vie quotidienne. Partant de l’interrelatio…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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