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Eric Hellman started the topic Community support for Open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI’ve started posting a series of blog posts on community support of open access books. The first two pasts are:
Creating Value with Open Access Books
Open Access for Backlist Books, Part I: The Slush Pile
Eric
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCambridge University Library is looking for a Scholarly Communications Specialist. The role involves developing support for open access monograph publishing. Deadline 15 March: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28708/
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Dominik Hünniger deposited Bilder machen – Charaktere, Stereotype und die Konstruktion menschlicher Varietät bei Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis chapter analyses the image production practices of the Goettingen university anatomist and natural historian Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) and the Berlin artis Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) when they collaborated on Blumenbach’s Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte (1790). Blumenbach wanted Chodowiecki to produce family scences for each of…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAuthor(s)
Altman, Micah
Abstract
In this blog post we look at the open data available on monograph publication, and use it to explore patterns and trends in open monograph publishing. This blog post takes the form of a guided, interactive, reproducible data analysis based on currently available public data. We aim for this exploration to inform…[Read more] -
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe University of London Press (an OA press) is looking for a Publications Officer in a part-time capacity. “An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Publications Officer to join the newly launched University of London Press based in the School of Advanced Study at a pivotal moment in its history. The Press is being focused towards a new…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic A journal publisher’s perspective in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
In this post, Roger van Zwanenberg from Pluto Journals describes the context for its transition to Open Access, e.g., the decreasing viability of closed access, what decision-making options were available and the implications of the library-funded model, for journals as opposed to books:…[Read more]
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Michael Lyons deposited Excavating ‘Excavating AI’: The Elephant in the Gallery in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTwo art exhibitions, “Training Humans” and “Making Faces,” and the accompanying essay “Excavating AI: The politics of images in machine learning training sets” by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, are making substantial impact on discourse taking place in the social and mass media networks, and some scholarly circles. Critical scrutiny reveals,…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited BIS REPETITA PLACENT! in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoBIS REPETITA PLACENT! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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James M. Tucker deposited From Ink Traces to Ideology: Material, Text, and Composition of Qumran Community Rule Manuscripts in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis study is a fresh analysis of a collection of scrolls and fragments grouped under the rubric, The Community Rule or Serekh ha-Yaḥad. As part of the manuscripts discovered in the Judean Desert, the Community Rule manuscripts are all fragmentary to various degrees, yet attest to important issues of legal dispute and community formation in the S…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTwo fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Eur…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic SSRN English & American Literature Research Network in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoEnglish & American Literature Research Network: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/01/english-american-literature-research.html
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi, great to see this article which ‘opens up’ the conversation and explores additional steps that could be taken – including books and chapters.
To add to Agata’s comments:
If there is indeed some level of agreement on the limitations and extent to which the Gold OA model, through a ‘Book-Processing-Charge (BPC)’ model, can work on a…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoComments on proposed framewrok:
I think it would be worth thinking a bit more about what kind of OA you want to push for and integrate it with the proposed framework.
You already have a point about supporting business models other than these based on APCs, but there is no such consideration in the framework itself for books.
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Agata Morka started the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA brand new take on advancing OA in The Netherlands has just been published: https://zenodo.org/record/4455790#.YBGtRS1Q3s0. The authors reached out to the OABN for comments, so we are kicking off a discussion with first thoughts after having read the text.
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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 5 years agoThe recording of our conversation with Jeff yesterday is available here: https://youtu.be/wyzb1BJi8AU
Thanks to Jeff for such an interesting session, and to everyone who attended!
We’ll be announcing the next boOkmArks sessions in the near future. If you have an idea for a session, you can contact us at info@oabooksnetwork.org.
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Submissions: Digital Activism In and Outside the Classroom in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers The Global Digital Humanities Working Group in the Central New York Humanities Corridor seeks graduate students and recent PhDs to participate in a work-in-progress workshop on the theme “Digital Activism in and Outside the Classroom,” to be hosted virtually by the University of Rochester on April 2, 2021. Selected participants wil…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Chances and Challenges for Quantitative Approaches in Chinese Historical Phonology in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe field of Chinese Historical Phonology is traditionally dealing with a large number of complex and diverse types of data. While the data diversity can be conveniently dealt with in qualitative approaches, computational possibilities that have arisen during the past two decades offer new possibilities and new challenges for the field. In the…[Read more]
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Kath Burton started the topic Public Humanities and Publication working paper in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years agoToday we are posting the first paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group: https://hcommons-staging.org/?get_group_doc=1003800/1611561373-PublicHumanitiesandPublication_workingpaper2021.pdf
Exploring the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship, this paper is…[Read more]
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