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Dan Rudmann deposited The Disguise of Language: Translation through the Mahābhārata in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoAs the Pāṇḍava brothers move through the forest in the third book of the Mahābhārata, they hear stories of fantastic transformations and journeys: a band of gods all masked as the same prince, dice that become thieving birds, a sage turned into a hunted deer, a woman who traverses Yama’s realm. These tales recast and elucidate the condit…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
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Ross Mounce replied to the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA great opportunity for classicists working-in or recently trained at the University of Cambridge. Not so great for anyone else…
The Faculty of Classics is delighted to have reached an agreement with Cambridge University Press by which, for the next three years, five volumes a year in the Cambridge Classical Studies Series (monographs on…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes started the topic How to use the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoTo join the Open Access Books Network group, simply set up a profile at Humanities Commons. It takes a couple of minutes, and you can find easy-to-follow instructions here. Then search for the Open Access Books Network under Groups (on the left-hand side of your screen) and click on the Join Group button.
You are now officially a member of the…[Read more]
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Dan Rudmann's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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Dan Rudmann deposited The Disguise of Language: Translation through the Mahābhārata on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
As the Pāṇḍava brothers move through the forest in the third book of the Mahābhārata, they hear stories of fantastic transformations and journeys: a band of gods all masked as the same prince, dice that become thieving birds, a sage turned into a hunted deer, a woman who traverses Yama’s realm. These tales recast and elucidate the condit…[Read more]
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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, 6 months agoThis is really interesting and powerful Sherri — I’m very curious to know how (or if) you think things have moved on since the Huma study group you were part of in the late 2000s? Has progress been made on the issues you discussed, or are we still circling around the same questions?
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Jefferson Pooley deposited The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe chapter argues that disciplinary memory claims in US American communication research have become smaller, more parochial, and less potent, as their underlying referent—the discipline—has splintered in the wake of the digital in the mid-1990s. For decades after its institutionalization in the 1950s, US communication research had relied on gra…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe chapter argues that disciplinary memory claims in US American communication research have become smaller, more parochial, and less potent, as their underlying referent—the discipline—has splintered in the wake of the digital in the mid-1990s. For decades after its institutionalization in the 1950s, US communication research had relied on gra…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
The chapter argues that disciplinary memory claims in US American communication research have become smaller, more parochial, and less potent, as their underlying referent—the discipline—has splintered in the wake of the digital in the mid-1990s. For decades after its institutionalization in the 1950s, US communication research had relied on gra…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes created the event British Library: annual Open and Engaged event in the group Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
Title: British Library: annual Open and Engaged event
Description: To be held online. More details TBC later in August.
https://twitter.com/BLopenresearch/status/1286300742136012802?s=20
Date: 19 October 2020 EDT
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Tobias Steiner created the event Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoStone, Graham, Gatti, Rupert, van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J., Arias, Javier, Steiner, Tobias, & Ferwerda, Eelco. (2020, July 27). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961564
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThere’s a new report out on metadata and OA books from COPIM:
Stone, G., Gatti, R., van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Arias, J., Steiner, T., & Ferwerda, E. (2020). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.939caeab
This is part of COPIM’s WP5, which is aiming to ‘develop technical protocols and…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThere are a couple of in-depth posts that have been published in recent weeks by scholar-led presses discussing their business models in some detail (one of which I co-wrote, for full disclosure!) – they might be of interest to this thread:
- The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes by Lucy Barnes and Rupert Gatti, 28 May 2020
- We Got…
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Lucy Barnes edited the doc LIVE LIST: OA-books-related projects in the group
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Samuel Moore deposited Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the recent turn within academic publishing towards ‘seamless access’, an approach to content provision that ensures users do not have to continually authenticate in order to access journal content. Through a critical exploration of Get Full Text Research, a service developed collaboratively by five of the world’s largest aca…[Read more]
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Samuel Moore deposited Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
This article explores the recent turn within academic publishing towards ‘seamless access’, an approach to content provision that ensures users do not have to continually authenticate in order to access journal content. Through a critical exploration of Get Full Text Research, a service developed collaboratively by five of the world’s largest aca…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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Lucy Barnes created the event Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know in the group Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
Title: Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know
Description: A 2019 article in The Atlantic observed that the current disruption in scholarly book publishing might result in the Great Sorting, what the author saw as a beneficial “matching of different kinds of scholarly uses with the right media, formats and locations.” In this specific are…[Read more]
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