Tobias Steiner
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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 3 years, 10 months agoNEW COLLECTION: Myself and François van Schalkwyk of African Minds have put together a collection of OA book publisher business models, with contributions from a number of presses. The collection is here: https://oabooksbusinessmodels.pubpub.org/
We’re keen to add to it, so if your press might be interested in contributing, take a look at the…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
This short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner edited the event Reading Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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Janneke Adema uploaded the file: 'Misleading metrics' and the ecology of scholarly publishing. to
Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKirsten Bell. 2018. ‘Misleading metrics’ and the ecology of scholarly publishing. In Predatory Publishing. Post Office Press, Rope Press and punctum books, pp. 26-33. https://doi.org/10.17613/M6N58CK3D
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Janneke Adema uploaded the file: An Instrument for Adoration: A Mini-Manifesto Against Metrics for the Humanities to
Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEileen A. Fradenburg Joy, “‘An Instrument for Adoration’: A Mini-Manifesto Against Metrics for the Humanities (To Be Elaborated Upon at a Further Date),” in Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir (Coventry: Post Office Press, 2018), pp 26-33. https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/.
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Janneke Adema's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
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Janneke Adema uploaded the file: Number crunching: transforming higher education into ‘performance data’ to
Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoNumber crunching: transforming higher education into ‘performance data’
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Janneke Adema uploaded the file: Trying to Say ‘No’ to Rankings and Metrics Case Studies from Francophone West Africa, South Africa, Latin America and the Netherlands to
Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoTrying to Say ‘No’ to Rankings and Metrics
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Janneke Adema uploaded the file: Marres and De Rijcke, ‘From Indicators to Indicating Interdisciplinarity' to
Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production on Humanities Commons 4 years agoMarres, Noortje, and Sarah de Rijcke. ‘From Indicators to Indicating Interdisciplinarity: A Participatory Mapping Methodology for Research Communities in-the-Making’. Quantitative Science Studies, 29 June 2020, 1041–55.
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Arthur Boston deposited A Recommendation of Nine Research Funder Policies & Principles in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years agoOutlined below is a bundle of nine policies and principles that are recommended for research funders and grantees. A wide-enactment of this bundle could lead to a quiet improvement in scientific communication. While well-intentioned, funding mandates that focus on making published articles (or their preprints) available as open access objects…[Read more]
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Arthur Boston deposited A Recommendation of Nine Research Funder Policies & Principles on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Outlined below is a bundle of nine policies and principles that are recommended for research funders and grantees. A wide-enactment of this bundle could lead to a quiet improvement in scientific communication. While well-intentioned, funding mandates that focus on making published articles (or their preprints) available as open access objects…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic New editions of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years agoHi Emma,
My colleague Laura at OBP confirms that our approach is similar to Sebastian’s. We:
– Archive old editions (and state ‘Archived’ on the title. See: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1096)
– Delete prices and purchase options to avoid readers purchasing an edition that is not up to date.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to rel…[Read more]
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Arthur Boston deposited Yeezy taught me in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoIn a talk given during London Open Research Week 2021, Arthur J. Boston, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, described parallels between the music industry and academic publishing, especially as it relates to open science and early career researchers. Below, you can find both…[Read more]
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