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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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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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Agata Morka 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 in general are important to me: they have shaped who I am, from gruesome Grimm’s tales to Ocean Vuong’s hauntingly melancholic nail salon stories. My background is in HSS, in art and architectural history, which are disciplines heavily depending on monographs as research outputs. I strongly believe that making scholarly books, especially in…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩ to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩
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Agata Morka started 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 agoIn this discussion thread we are asking all our group members the same two big questions , in order to get to know them a bit better and understand what makes them tick when it comes to OA books.
WHY ARE OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IMPORTANT TO YOU?
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH OA BOOKS?
Please share your thoughts with us!
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate and provide information around business models for Open Access books. What business models are out there for Open Access books? How are these evolving and are there particular challenges that could be addressed to improve these?
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate discussion and conversation around metadata (developments) specifically for Open Access books.
Group members can ask questions on metadata for Open Access books, share news updates, come up with new ideas and initiatives for improving metadata for OA books and highlight industry developments or opportunities.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe Dutch Research Council / Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) introduces a continuous call for funding OA Books stemming from NWO-funded research.
More Information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2020/06/open-access-books-call-make-your-book-openly-accessible.html
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic covers new funding and policy developments for open access books. Group members are encouraged to post new developments within these two areas, sharing this with the wider open access book community.
When sharing new funding and policy developments please make sure to share a link/source where possible.
Feel free to ask any questions…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd uploaded the file: OAPEN OA Books Toolkit – Background Poster to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis is a poster presented as part of the OpenRepositories2020 Virtual Conference Session on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit will be hosted on its own platform and provide authors worldwide with a useful resource that helps them to better understand and increase trust in OA book publishing.
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Anna P. Judson deposited Review of Variation within and among Writing Systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents. LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Variation within and among Writing Systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents. LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. 384. ISBN 9783954901456 €98.00. in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of a collection of papers on variation in historical writing systems. The review focuses particularly on chapters on Linear B, Anatolian alphabets, and Hittite cuneiform.
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Multiple sequence alignment in historical linguistics. A sound class based approach in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, a new method for multiple sequence alignment in historical linguistics is presented. The algorithm is based on the traditional framework of progressive multiple sequence alignment (cf. Durbin et al. 2002:143-149) whose shortcomings are further enhanced by (1) a sound class representation of phonetic sequences (cf. Dolgopolsky 1986,…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThrough an experiment on a Western Kho-Bwa linguistic dataset, Timotheus A. Bodt and Johann-Mattis List provide evidence for the regularity of sound change.
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Learning to differentiate between apparent synonyms in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoRabbi Reuven Chaim Klein shows us how to use the Hebrew language as a model for understanding the differences between similar words
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James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAnnouncing a reading group on the limits of the novel
June 6 – August 29
I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]
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Maheswari D deposited தமிழ் இலக்கியங்களில் பெண்ணிய கட்டமைப்பும் கட்டுடைப்பும்/CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMINISM IN TAMIL LITERATURE, VOL – 1 in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 3 : VOL – 1, FEBRUARY 2020.
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Towards a sustainable handling of interlinear-glossed text in language documentation in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhile the amount of digitally available data on the worlds’ languages is steadily increasing, with more and more languages being documented, only a small proportion of the language resources produced are sustainable. Data reuse is often difficult due to idiosyncratic formats and a negligence of standards that could help to increase the…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited CLDFBench: Give Your Cross-Linguistic Data a Lift in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWhile the amount of cross-linguistic data is constantly increasing, most datasets produced today and in the past cannot be considered FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible). To remedy this and to increase the comparability of cross-linguistic resources, it is not enough to set up standards and best practices for data to be…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoBy reviewing a recent quantitative study of rhyme patterns in Mandarin Chinese, this study shows how data handling and data analysis in the study of rhyme patterns can be improved. Suggestions for improvement include (a) a consistent annotation of rhyme data, which is exhaustive and facilitates data reuse, and (b) emphasizes the importance of…[Read more]
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