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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Philippa, I’d be happy to discuss this — at OBP we have been approached by people interested in translating our OA books and I could talk through how we deal with this. Essentially, if the book is licensed CC BY then anyone can produce a translation as long as appropriate attribution is given, although it would also be best practice to say…[Read more]
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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, 6 months agoHi all: the summaries from our Voices from the OA Books Community series are now available (thanks to the support of SPARC Europe) and will remain open until 12 August: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/07/22/voices-from-the-oa-books-community-summary-the-great-polyphony/
Many thanks to all who contributed to the sessions!
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Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]
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Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting – Dublin 2022 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)”.
Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:
Who was the dilettante? How d…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet deposited Carrying on in a Pandemic: The Case of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFor this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.
FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]
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Brandon Walsh deposited Building Community And Generosity In The Context Of Graduate Education in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe academy trains students in complex intellectual work and tends to reward the performance of one’s own intelligence, both in coursework and in conferences. But in collaborative digital projects, this sort of focus on the individual is detrimental to the group dynamic, which necessarily needs to take shape around more than just the individual.…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Hoy Venezuela. Ensayos para entender un país complejo in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi John,
I’ve had a read through and think it is a really thoughtful and well-balanced vision and policy considering some of the current challenges and opportunities for opening up books. I’m not too familiar with similar visions and policies, some of the fully OA publishers do have a clear vision statement and the University of Michigan Press…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited “Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence” — Nostalgia de la experiencia inmediata in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Zapatero y la importancia de las humanidades in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la reforma en curso de la estructura de titulaciones de la educación universitaria en España, bajo la administración de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero y el ministerio de Educación del PSOE (2005), y sobre sus implicaciones para los estudios de la macroárea de Humanidades. ______…[Read more]
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John Sherer started the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHello all,
Here at the University of North Carolina Press we’ve just published an OA Policy on our web site.
I’m curious whether other publishers (for whom OA is only a part of their program) have done this. In preparing this, I did some scans of publisher web sites…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe recording of our boOkmArks event with Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars & Toby Steiner of the COPIM Project on experimental OA book publishing is now available! Many thanks to our speakers for a fascinating session & to the audience for coming and bringing your questions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V5mbp48ZXIw
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Jacek Ben Silberstein deposited In defence of science – non sole in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoAbstract: The freedom of research is a cornerstone of our civilisation; in many ways it can even be seen as a human right. However, freedom of research does not mean the liberty to cheat. Cheating in science – deliberate falsification of evidence to support a hypothesis – is not only academic misconduct; it is also a crime against society and the…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited “Chresiology”, short description (part 2) (version 2) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoShort description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).
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Donald Guadagni deposited Modern Domestic Relations Civil Debt in the United States Human Rights Considerations in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe evolution and development of modern domestic relations civil debt collections in the United States have become a serious threat to individual human rights over the last 50 years. The civil debt collections laws and mechanisms have the capacity to seriously and personally affect individuals in a manner which is mutually inconsistent human…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT is our last Open Cafe before we take a couple of months off to plan the next year of events and activities at the OABN. Do please join us with your beverage of choice to let us know your thoughts — are there particular topics you want us to cover, different formats we should try, something we did well,…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’ve opened the Free Ebook Foundation Open Access Monographs Fund! https://blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the-ebook-turns-50-fef-monographs-fund/
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Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Constructing a Comprehensive Coverage Criterion of Indian States and Union Territories News in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe study posits a twelve pronged formulation of indices to measure the over coverage and
under coverage of the Indian states and union territories by newspapers on socio-economic,
demographical and political aspects. Union territories (UT), mainly Delhi and Chandigarh
were unjustifiably favoured on all twelve counts which clearly points out…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Social Media and the Arab Spring in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis paper discusses the effect of social media on the occurrence of ‘Arab Spring’. In the
Arab world no country could claim to be truly democratic and most were autocratic coupled
with desertification (68.4 per cent of the total land area), phenomenal rise in population and
scarcity of water. Moreover, about 60 per cent of the population is…[Read more] - Load More