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TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision
of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries?
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Global Outlook Scholarly Communication on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHey GOSC! Who’s going to be at FORCE2017 this week?
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’ve uploaded the readings we assigned HuMetricsHSS workshop participants to the Files section of this group.
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière
Abstract Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are
all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: Generous Thinking: Introduction to
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAuthor: Audrey Williams June
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic How might you employ/deploy the process & ideas of the first HuMetricsHSS event? in the discussion
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAt the first HuMetricsHSS workshop, we asked participants how they might take the process and ideas generated there back into their own professional and institutional contexts. This thread is for feedback, ideas, and reporting back!
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: CREATIVE ARCHIPELAGOS
Explorations of Islands in Scottish Literature and Culture
29 June–1 July 2018, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of SkyeThis conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or islands with Scottish connections through poetry and so…[Read more]
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Feedback and Feature Requests on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoWe are about to embark on a UX audit of MLA Commons and would love to know what you like (and, more importantly, don’t like) about the platform. Help us make the Commons a more user-friendly place to be!
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I’ve used Commons a lot. The things I think are best:
* many privacy & participation options for different types of pages;
* ability to upload documents and files for sharing; discussion boards;
* ability to get activity updates in digest form, so that it’s easy to tell when new things happen.Things that could be improved:
* make all MLA…[Read more]
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