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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHello all,
Jisc is organising a webinar series on the topic of open access books related to the forthcoming UKRI open access policy. Please find more details below and don’t hesitate to register if interested!
In August 2021, UKRI launched a new open access policy, which for the first time includes a provision for long form scholarly works…[Read more]
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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem deposited Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the his…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Pluralities: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access. Zur Rolle von scholar-led publishing in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 1) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoPublication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Old Traditions: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access – zu den Anfängen digitalen scholar-led Publishings in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 2) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoPublication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited New Communities: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access – aktuelle scholar-led Publishing-Initiativen und Open Access in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 3) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoPublication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]
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Ethan Henderson started the topic Workshop: “Writing the Landscape” / Oak Spring Garden Foundation in the discussion
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe Oak Spring Garden Foundation (the former estate of Paul and Rachel Mellon near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia) is offering a residential short course based at Oak Spring on “Writing the Landscape” from April 24-28, 2023. The seminar will be taught by Gretchen Henderson and, in addition to environmental writing, will explore how OSGF’…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi everyone, we are looking for a new team member that will help us with managing a Horizon Europe funded project about research funder policies and strategies for open access books across Europe and beyond.
We are looking for a colleague with skills and experience in project management and communication. Knowledge of the subject matter is not…[Read more]
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Andreia Nunes replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi Meredith!
Thank you so much 🙂 I have chosen some categories I would like to analyze like physical characteristics (hair, beard), adjectives, professions, household tasks, etc. to see how male/female characters are represented. But they are still very open – to see what I will find in the books. Some will repeat itself so I use numbers as…[Read more]
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Meredith Hale replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis sounds like a great project. Good programs depend a little on how your data is formatted, but I’d recommend seeing if OpenRefine might be a good fit for your project – https://openrefine.org/download.html
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Andreia Nunes started the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! My name is Andreia Nunes and I am doing my Phd in sociology, investigating about gender stereotypes in Portuguese contemporary children’s literature. I’ve been working on my analysis grid and my categories and I have around 100 books to analyse! I am wondering about the best program to use to insert data! Anyone working on something…[Read more]
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Jennifer Kemp replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIt’s great to have this channel here. I’ve included a link to it in the new proposed guidelines Crossref has issued for making DOI links accessible. It’s not specific to books but I hope it’s of interest. It’s a call for comments so we’re very interested in getting…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoFrom living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Guardian Hosts and Custodial Witnesses: In loco parentis in Women’s Ghost Stories, 1852–1920 in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Death (un)Personified: Pronouns, Patriarchy, and the Child Ghost in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoin Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58
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