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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, 9 months agoOpen Position: The OAPEN Foundation is looking for a Project Manager to help with promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books. Responsibilities include participation in project activities, supporting technical operations, services and assisting with financial administration of the foundation. Full-time…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoFantastic news!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoHi all, Tom, Agata and I are pleased to announce that the OABN has become an OPERAS Special Interest Group (SIG), and as such it is now formally supported by OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area.
The OABN will continue to…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoI’ve been doing some more digging into accessibility resources and have found the following:
– Improving the Accessibility of your Mainstream Digital Content, which seems to be a wealth of resources from the Inclusive Publishing group, coordinated by the DAISY consortium: https://inclusivepublishing.org/about-the-inclusive-publishing-hub/
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Luca Baffa replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoAt OBP we have adapted our InDesign-based workflow to produce accessible EPUBs. So far it has been a mixture of adopting some new typesetting practices and doing some post-production work. It’s still a work in process, if anyone has comments on this I am all ears!
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Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWe have recently discovered that pdfs produced with LaTeX have a certain treatment that does not interface well with common screenreaders for visually impaired people. Fixing this is actually a major project and will get pretty gory. We will not have the funds available at LangSci to do this on our own, but we might apply for some funding. If you…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Miradas historiografía in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis channel was set up after the Open Cafe discussion on the accessibility of OA books, at which a number of links were shared, so I will drop them here for future reference:
– EU directive on accessibility, coming into force in 2025: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882
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Lucy Barnes started the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis is a place to discuss or share information about any aspect of the accessibility of open access books: standards, technical solutions, negotiating with service providers, collective strategies, and more!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoNEW COLLECTION: Myself and François van Schalkwyk of African Minds have put together a collection of OA book publisher business models, with contributions from a number of presses. The collection is here: https://oabooksbusinessmodels.pubpub.org/
We’re keen to add to it, so if your press might be interested in contributing, take a look at the…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN MATHEMATICS COMPETENCIES OF GRADE 6 COMPLETERS in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis study used a quantitative research design employing a descriptive survey research method. It sought to determine the needs of Grade 6 Completers in Mathematics competencies. The respondents of this study were the 384 Grade 6 completers who are officially enrolled in Nieves Villarica National High School. The statistical tools used in this…[Read more]
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Mike Rifino started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Themed Issue – Open Educational Resources (5/15/22) in the discussion
Digital Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue
Open Educational Resources
with a Forum of General ArticlesIssue Editors:
Jojo Karlin (NYU Libraries)
Krystyna Michael (Hostos Community College, CUNY)
Inés Vaño García (Saint Anselm College)Associate Issue Editor:
Chanta Shenell Palmer (Lehman College, CUNY)Call for su…[Read more]
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Subaveerapandiyan A deposited Plagiarism Software is a Creator or Destroyer for Effective Writing in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPlagiarism is malpractice, the fabrication of others’ “ideas or work” published without the proper permission or
citation of the original contributors. Plagiarism is detected through different software, i.e., Turnitin, before publishing
any research data. The present survey study assesses whether academicians, researchers, and scholars aroun…[Read more] -
Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Navigation, connection, and humanities wisdom from the Pacific in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities: Scholarship in Service to the Common Good in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities Scholarship and LGBTQIA+ Studies in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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