Rebecca Kennison
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johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]
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David Watson replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMany thanks for this assistance!
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Kath Burton replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTo find out more about the fabulous work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, the team have just released a new format newsletter that provides updates on how the project has been evolving.
And check out Section 6 of Publishing Values-Based Scholarly Communication to explore how the HuMetrics Values Sorter can support values-based publishing…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoHi David, that’s indeed an excellent question, and just to add to John’s mention of the OATP, there’s also an option to narrow one’s search down via boolean operators, so searching for oa.business_models AND oa.books will provide you with a more specific version of the list that John mentioned…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Feminismo del fin in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society via email on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more] -
Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]
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Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years agoLanguages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoI’m delighted that the OER has finally been released! Gathering real-life examples from those engaged in this work has been a journey of discovery. I’ve learned so much from those we’ve interviewed, as well as thinking through how values frameworks can help negotiate both the work itself and the interpersonal relationships that work resides. This…[Read more]
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Catherine Cocks replied to the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoIt’s so exciting to see the OER go live! Many thanks to Kath Burton and to Bonnie Russell for making it a reality, and also to Rebecca Kennison for coming up with the idea. My favorite parts are video interviews with several people who have broad experience in publicly engaged work: Michelle May-Curry, director of Humanities for All; Teresa Mangum…[Read more]
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Kath Burton started the topic Publicly Engaged Publishing – OER now live! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoHow do OERs support values-based publishing?
As we launch into 2023, members of the Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities Group have teamed up with the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Science) initiative to co-author a new open educational resource (OER).Publishing Values-based Scholarly Communication is a wholly…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years agoHi David, excellent question! John makes a great suggestion with OATP, which is really useful in keeping up with new announcements and current developments. The difficulty with any online list is keeping it up to date — as you note, there are a lot of new initiatives like Path To Open launching at the moment. My colleague Tom Grady and I recently…[Read more]
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John Sherer replied to the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years agoPeter Suber created the OA Tracking Project
If you search by tags of business models, you get a pretty good list (including the new Path to Open)
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David Watson started the topic Is there a list of Open Monograph schemes? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThere’s now a fair number of different Open Monograph schemes, running different models or variations of models – and new schemes keep launching, ie ‘Path to Open‘ that just launched. This is great, but does mean it’s difficult to keep track of what the current OA monograph landscape looks like.
Is there anywhere a list of these different schemes?
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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, 1 month agoHello, we’re looking for a Finance & Administration Officer to join the OAPEN Team (fluent in Dutch and English). The Finance & Administration Officer will help us with the financial management of OAPEN’s operational and project activities. More…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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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 3 years, 2 months agoHi all, next Thursday (17th November) at 3pm GMT we’re looking forward to speaking with OABN stalwart Eric Hellman at our next boOkmArks event, about his work with Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders and how these experiences have informed his perspectives on the early days of open access and more recent developments in OA books.
Eric…[Read more]
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Marley Treloar deposited Recycle Archaeology: Community Reuse of Archaeological Disposals in the group
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIn this paper, I interview Dr Helen Wickstead, director of Recycle Archaeology about the reuse of usually discarded archaeological materials as an alternative to disposal. I explain through recent pilot projects partnered with Recycle Archaeology, how archaeological materials can be used by students, researchers, artists and the public to create…[Read more]
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