-
Agata Morka started the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn this thread we will post announcements of all sorts: like an interesting upcoming event, a webinar worth attending etc, to draw your attention to these gems.
-
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next boOkmArk event is next week! On Tuesday October 20th at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!
-
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe video recording of last week’s discussion with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon about their OA book usage analysis is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv_YYYj946o
-
Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoOpen Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer “who is enthusiastic about open source and Open Access initiatives”! https://openbookpublishers.com/section/133/1
-
Christopher Joseph Helali deposited No Pasaran! An Interview on the History and Politics of Anti-fascism with Mark Bray in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe as well as a political organizer. This interview outlines what fascism is, the history of anti-fascist resistance, the debate surrounding free-speech, anti-imperialism, World War II, and the Trump Era.
Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian…[Read more]
-
Peter Suber replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Open Access Tracking Project tracks OA-related news about jobs (tag “oa.jobs”) and books (tag “oa.books”). A boolean feed of items with both tags shows jobs related to OA books: http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.jobs+%23oa.books
All OATP feeds are crowd-sourced and updated in real time. You can make them more…[Read more]
-
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis relates to OA journals rather than OA books, but I just spotted that OPERAS are looking for a research assistant to help with their Diamond OA study. Deadline 12th October, immediate start: https://operas.hypotheses.org/4387
-
Rebecca Siefert started the topic Gehry Partners' Dana McKinney on Designing Environments to Empower in the discussion
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 5 years, 4 months agoClick here to read an interview with Dana McKinney of Gehry Partners in Madame Architect on advocating for justice and equity through design.
-
Rebecca Siefert started the topic "Mistresses of Pratt" Archive in the discussion
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 5 years, 4 months agoSCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE LAUNCHES MISTRESSES OF PRATT TO RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF WOMEN EDUCATORS
In launching its own initiative recognizing the legacy of women educators at Pratt Institute, the School of Architecture organized a Dinner Party-inspired gathering with individualized place settings for 41 honored guests. The Monday, March 9 event at the…[Read more] -
Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]
-
Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoAddressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]
-
Rebecca Siefert started the topic Landslide 2020, Women Take the Lead: Women who Shaped the American Landscape in the discussion
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis year’s Landslide, The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes and landscape features, is entitled Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead. The title is derived from a May 13, 1938 New York Times article about women landscape architects that includes the subheadline “Women Take Lead in…[Read more]
-
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe first two boOkmArks events are up:
- OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: demo and discussion with Eelco Ferwerda, Thursday 1st October 3pm BST/4pm CEST
- ‘Diversifying Readership Through Open Access’, discussing the recent SN/COARD paper on OA book usage with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon, Tuesday 6th October 4pm BST / 5pm CEST
-
Lucy Barnes started the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis is a place where we will share information about forthcoming boOkmArks events, and you can post questions and engage in discussion about the topics covered. Each boOkmArks event will cover a subject related to OA books, and each will have the following structure:
1) BLOG POST: there will be a blog post (usually by the speaker) up on our Site…[Read more]
-
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic For Authors: resources on Open Access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoAlso: we’ll be holding our first bOokmArks: Open Conversations about Open Access Books event tomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST with Eelco Ferwerda, the Director of OAPEN, about the Toolkit – how it was developed, who was involved & what he hopes it will achieve. Come along and bring your questions: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482 or submit them in…[Read more]
-
Tom Mosterd replied to the topic For Authors: resources on Open Access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello everyone,
I’m pleased to share that we have just launched the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
More on the toolkit can be found here: https://oapen.org/oapen/article/10705775-launch-of-the-oapen-open-access-books-toolkit
or feel…[Read more]
-
Rebecca Siefert started the topic Annmarie Adams: Fellow to Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in the discussion
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 5 years, 4 months agoCongratulations to SAH WiA AG Advising Chair Prof. Annmarie Adams, who has been selected as a Fellow to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) for 2020! You can read more about her accomplishments and this prestigious Fellowship here.
-
Rebecca Siefert started the topic "Not Even Past" Resources in the discussion
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group on SAH Commons 5 years, 4 months agoSharing some great resources available on Not Even Past, a history research site developed by the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin that is freely accessible to all:
-
Rupert Gatti uploaded the file: Michael Taylor, "Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage" preprint on arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10442 to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago” This paper examines the altmetrics of a set of 32,222 books (of which 5% are OA) and a set of 220,527 chapters (of which 7% are OA) indexed by the scholarly database Dimensions in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Both OA books and chapters have significantly higher use on social networks, higher coverage in the mass media and blogs, and…[Read more]
- Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
