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Sherri Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries. It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields. I asked Huma members (…[Read more]
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Nancy Roth deposited A Photographer on Mars in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFocussing the Nasa’s Opportunity Rover, the essay claims the field of creativity as definitively human, supported by Vilém Flusser’s understanding the the “apparatus”.
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Samantha Cabrera Friend deposited Consumerism in Digital Archives: Placing Latinx Traditions on the Right Cultural Shelf in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoUnmaking/Remaking Memory Work: Centering Community Narratives of Latinx Lived Experience One of a four person/presentation panel which locates itself within a growing social movement of new community-centered archiving and curatorial initiatives that has risen in recognition that traditionally ignored communities should have a role in how their…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoReading books is something I personally enjoy. Books, whether these are scholarly books or non-scholarly books provide readers with an extensive and rich resource that can go into a level of detail and explore connections other formats cannot.
Books provide the author with an opportunity to tell an elaborate story, provide much needed context…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited A Historical narrative of the British Colonial Administration’s Clamp down on Witch finding Shrines amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe paper focuses on the issue of witchcraft at the Gold Coast and Asante in particular. Information from archival sources and secondary sources has been gleaned to form a historical narrative covering the period 1907 to 1940. The dilemma of the indigenous people concerning witchcraft, the attempts of Indigenous Priest Healers (IPH) to cure and…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited National Health Insurance and Free Maternal Healthcare in Ghana: Responses from Women and Health Workers in Akropong in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe government of Ghana from the 1990s has tried a lot of policies to finance healthcare in Ghana. Different policies were introduced by different governments until 2003 when President John Agyekum Kuffour introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The study was carried out to find out the impact of NHIS on maternal healthcare at the…[Read more]
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Omer Aijazi deposited India uses coronavirus pandemic to exploit human rights in Kashmir in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAlthough the United Nations has called for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, Kashmiris are bracing for a new wave of violence as India accelerates its settler-colonial ambitions.
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Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited “Putting the Papers Online”: Recognizing Labor on Documents in Scholarly Publishing in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this presentation, I investigate claims that publishers add little value to scholarly communication by asking about those parts of publishing overlooked when the focus is exclusively on content. Evaluating a study by Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone, I not only point to problems with its assumptions about value,…[Read more]
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Christopher Joseph Helali deposited The Deafening Silence of the Unburied Dead: The Greek Civil War and Historical Trauma in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhile World War II was still raging in Europe and the Pacific, the onset of the Greek Civil War in December 1944 marked the beginning of the Cold War. For the people of Greece, the civil war would continue the devastation that the Italian, German, and Bulgarian occupations had initiated. The civil war’s catastrophic cleavages in Greek society are…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always mattered to me — as places to escape to, as ways to experience other points of view, and as treasure troves of knowledge and insight. Open Access is important because it enables so many more readers to engage with scholarly books. If done well — without flipping the costs from reader to author — Open Access has the capacity to…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited Kali’s Child – A Search for An Autobiographical Ramakrishna in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis is a review of the book “Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, Jeffrey J. Kripal, University of Chicago Press, 1995” . “Kali’s child” fell well short of a proof that Sri Ramakrishna’s mystical experiences were actually “profoundly, provocatively, scandalously erotic”. To reconstruct the autobiogr…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in Africa: a Systematic Synthesis of the Literature in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLiterature on traditional medicine in Africa is diverse and broad but most are country based, regional based or time based. There is the need for a systematic review that focuses on the nature of traditional medicine and its healers, the impact of the changing society on traditional medicine, and an analysis of same based on scholarly literature.…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in Africa: a Systematic Synthesis of the Literature in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLiterature on traditional medicine in Africa is diverse and broad but most are country based, regional based or time based. There is the need for a systematic review that focuses on the nature of traditional medicine and its healers, the impact of the changing society on traditional medicine, and an analysis of same based on scholarly literature.…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always played an important role in my life as windows into the world. My work at the OAPEN Foundation is an extension of that: I hope that others also have the same experience.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhDOAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlandsemail:…[Read more]
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