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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, 4 months agoTaylor and Francis are looking for a Partnership Development Manager for Open Access books, and a Content Development Manager for Open Access books. Closing date 26…[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, 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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Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 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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Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoOn the project pirate.care
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Valeria Graziano deposited The Medicalisation of Politics or the Politicisation of Medicine: The Case of Italian Struggles to Design Public Healthcare Institutions. in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe article follows the contours of a conversation with Fulvio Aurora, Paolo Fierro and Edoardo Turri, three members of the Italian health activist organization Medicina Democratica, which will also function as the backbone of our account of the initial radical
impetus and the later demise of the Italian public health system, the Servizio…[Read more] -
Alexios Brailas deposited Rhizomatic Learning in Action: A Virtual Exposition for Demonstrating Learning Rhizomes in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, we developed a virtual exposition as a model to visualize and demonstrate the dynamic and non-linear affordances of a learning rhizome. Virtual expositions are non-linear multimodal web installations that facilitate the creation of interconnections through which the research as practice and the practice as research are highlighted…[Read more]
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Alexios Brailas deposited A Systems Thinking Approach to Reflective Practice in Blogs: Implications on Social-Emotional Learning and Resilience Building in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn the present paper, we propose a model for reflective practice in blogs based on Systems Thinking aiming to promote social-emotional learning, and we discuss its theoretical underpinnings. Reflective blogging can be an invaluable tool for peer learning and professional development, particularly in appreciative environments where people feel safe…[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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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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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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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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John Mark R. Asio deposited Environmental Consumption, Waste Recycling, and Academic Performance among Selected College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe environment is suffering so much, and yet humanity is still adamant about saving it. This study determines the awareness of environmental consumption, waste recycling, and its relationship to the academic performance of selected college students during the pandemic period of COVID-19. Using a descriptive research design, the researcher used an…[Read more]
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Karen Cook deposited Canon Anxiety? in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCanons—of music, video games, or people—can provide a shared pool of resources for scholars, practitioners, and fans; but the formation of canons can also lead to an obscuring or devaluing of materials and people outside of a canon. The four authors in this colloquy interrogate issues of canons relating to video game music and sound from a var…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Hoy Venezuela. Ensayos para entender un país complejo in the group
Education and Pedagogy 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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