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James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited ON SPACE, PLACE, AND FORM IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El Gran Capitán en las poesías neolatina y castellana del temprano Quinientos in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoLa valía militar y guerrera de Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, universalmente conocido por su apodo de Gran Capitán, comenzó a difundirse casi de inmediato en la literatura de los tiempos que le tocaron vivir, hasta el punto de que se podría considerar al héroe cordobés como “la primera figura contemporánea a cuyo alrededor se agolpa esa intensa ac…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).
Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of…[Read more]
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Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen Position: Libraries Outreach Associate at Punctum Books. Closing date May 31.
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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, 9 months agoSession three: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Green OA for Books
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/DBaNh1nBBiQ- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOdSXAZU4WvmnDXrQDLDm4oNPXJpxSfShy9yg8d10Sg/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1: https://drive.go…
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Julia Mattes deposited Pandemic Pictures The Justinian Plague and the Black Death in Art in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Plague of Justinian began in 541 and quickly spread over the area of the late antique Mediterranean. There it continued in more than a dozen plague waves until the middle of the 8th century, causing much suffering and a great number of deaths. Academia traditionally debates it as the end of Antiquity. Isochronal, the effect of climate change…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta commented on the doc Los Virreyes de América del Norte (Nueva España 1535-1821) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWhy is Access Limited?
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Nowi Grecy. Historyzm polskich romantyków wobec narodzin Altertumswissenschaft in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe purpose of this book is to analyse the role which the development of the German Altertumswissenschaft at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries had (in combination with the English-French intellectual base) on the birth of the Romantic reception of the ancient traditions in Poland.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOn April 7th, OPERAS and OASPA organised a workshop on ‘Innovative business models for open access book publishing – six approaches in Europe’. These six approaches were all applied to small or medium-sized academic book publishers and may be relevant for any small or medium-sized publisher interested in OA book publishing.
A short report, along…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Licensing and open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen access books usually take a Creative Commons (CC) licence which permits authors to retain copyright, whilst allowing readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works under the terms of whichever licence is applied.
Which particular licence is deemed suitable for an open access book can differ depending on the preference and…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Review of ‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology, ed. Lester L. Grabbe in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of said book.
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Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[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, 9 months agoSession two: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Quality Assurance and Transparency
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/ooFGnKcdAQg
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NURw-KjT-zQZ1VAmSrghB02jF5JIPD5VD4dKqz5smyo/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1…
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe video is available from our talk with Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph: https://youtu.be/FDN0tTLrVTA
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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, 10 months agoJust re-upping this post about the COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers, which closes on FRIDAY https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi all, We’re delighted to share details of the launch of Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera’s Dikeledi Ha Di Wele Fatshe, the first indigenous-language book to be published on the new continental platform for Open Access research in Africa. This launch was mentioned at our recent event with Reggie Raju & Jill Claasson about the platform.
The book will…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks, Sebastian – I’m afraid I don’t have access to MIT’s Zotero group, but happy to say that COPIM’s Work Package 3 team (Izabella Penier, Tom Grady (@scholtom) and Martin Eve) have made references from their report available in COPIM’s Zotero group – the WP3-specific Revenue Models collection is available at
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNew on Knowledge Futures Groups’ Commonplace: Open Knowledge Infrastructures in Times of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.44d61468
(a reflective piece including some lessons that we’ve learned during the first year of COPIM)
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