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Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis course provides a survey of sculptural forms in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds from the
time of Alexander the Great to Late Antiquity. Key sculptural media will be considered from
chronological and thematic perspectives. Attention will be given to contextual analysis, social
history, form, technique, commemoration, regionalism, the…[Read more] -
Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHi Eric, again short answer (above a certain number of characters or links my postings here unfortunately don’t seem to work): yes, we use Pandoc among others. See https://gitlab.com/sciflow/development/-/milestones and for technical questions or cooperations best contact Mr. Eichler or Mr. Borchert.
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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHm somehow the posting here doesn’t work. Here in the absolutely rudimentary version: I would like to ask all publishers and editors who may be represented here in ‘Open infrastructure for OA books’ (commercial, institutional, professional societies, OJS/OMP series, series via repositories, etc.) to answer the survey on further requirements…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Hosting platforms, Open Access, Creative Commons licenses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear All,
Hosting platforms for Open Access publications, e.g., OAPEN, differ significantly in the presence of various Creative Commons licenses through which the book titles are available in likely reflection of their take-up by the publishing industry:…[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 4 years, 2 months agoA post from Dr Mayank Trivedi (https://hcommons-staging.org/members/librarianhml/):
Hello, I am Dr Mayank Trivedi, working as University Librarian at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(https://www.msubaroda.ac.in/). Smt. Hansa Mehta Library(http://www.hmlibrary.ac.in/) is the second-largest University Library of India.
My more details…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]
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Marko Demantowsky deposited Was soll das bloß mit dieser “Heimat”? in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis chapter works with a mixture of discourse analysis, cultural anthropological empiricism, integration of behavioural research, and not al least conceptual argumentation. It integrates different, but corresponding strands of discussion and controversies from German-speaking politics and culture, from academic discourse, research, and art to…[Read more]
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Peter Suber replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHi Kevin. Thanks for linking to the OATP tag library for “oa.dei”.
FYI, here’s the OATP tag library for the conjunction “oa.dei AND oa.publishers”:
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.dei+%23oa.publishers
OATP supports deep links like this to any boolean combination of tags. If you write me directly (peter.suber@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis is a rather old article, but might be useful:
Do developing countries profit from free books? : Discovery and online usage in developed and developing countries compared
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2013-11 | journal-article DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.103 -
Kevin Hawkins replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoJohn, you might mine http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.dei for useful sources. I wish you could browse OATP by more than one tag at a time (all “oa.dei” and “oa.publishers”, for example), but I can’t figure out a way to do that. Happy digging!
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John Sherer started the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoColleagues,
The Association of University Presses is compiling resources (articles, research data, tool kits) to help look at our industry through the lenses of equity, justice, and inclusion. To that end, I’m looking for any research articles on OA that take that approach. I have found a helpful article from Roz Pyne and others called…[Read more]
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Henning Fischer deposited Überlebende als Akteurinnen. Die Frauen der Lagergemeinschaften Ravensbrück: Biografische Erfahrung und politisches Handeln, 1945 bis 1989 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDas Buch beschreibt die Lebensgeschichten einer Gruppe von kommunistischen deutschen Überlebenden des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück bei Berlin. Diese gründeten unmittelbar nach ihrer Befreiung und dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus ihre Lagergemeinschaft als gemeinsamen sozialen und politischen Verband. Ausgehend von der biografischen Pr…[Read more]
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Agata Morka deposited OA Books Workouts, episode 1. Interview with Janneke Adema. in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis interview is one of the outputs of the online series OA Books Workouts: Scholars at Work, a project of the Open Access Books Network. The aim of the series is to share good practices regarding the writing, production, and technicalities of publishing an open access book.
The Open Access Books Network is an open network for anyone…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes del Sur de Italia I, Sicilia 1414-1735 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoLa presencia de virreyes en Sicilia se originó a partir de un pacto entre los habitantes de la isla y la Corona de Aragón. Los sicilianos se comprometieron a pagar donaciones fijadas periódicamente por su Parlamento a cambio de protección contra el enemigo externo. Sicilia por sí sola no podía evitar una invasión musulmana, como la que tuvo lugar…[Read more]
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Priyraj Maheshkar deposited आधुनिक भारताचे जनक डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Father of Modern India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
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