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Maria Papadopoulou deposited Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar (online): 3-4 August / 3-4 September, 2020 in the group
Artificial Intelligence on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDue to the great interest for the first two sessions of the Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar, we are very happy to announce two new online sessions on August 3rd & 4th and on September 3rd & 4th. This doctoral seminar is an introduction to Digital Humanities defined as the application of methods and tools from Information and Communication…[Read more]
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Sherri Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries. It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields. I asked Huma members (…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoReading books is something I personally enjoy. Books, whether these are scholarly books or non-scholarly books provide readers with an extensive and rich resource that can go into a level of detail and explore connections other formats cannot.
Books provide the author with an opportunity to tell an elaborate story, provide much needed context…[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 5 years, 6 months agoBooks have always mattered to me — as places to escape to, as ways to experience other points of view, and as treasure troves of knowledge and insight. Open Access is important because it enables so many more readers to engage with scholarly books. If done well — without flipping the costs from reader to author — Open Access has the capacity to…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always played an important role in my life as windows into the world. My work at the OAPEN Foundation is an extension of that: I hope that others also have the same experience.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhDOAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlandsemail:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks in general are important to me: they have shaped who I am, from gruesome Grimm’s tales to Ocean Vuong’s hauntingly melancholic nail salon stories. My background is in HSS, in art and architectural history, which are disciplines heavily depending on monographs as research outputs. I strongly believe that making scholarly books, especially in…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩ to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩
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Agata Morka started the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn this discussion thread we are asking all our group members the same two big questions , in order to get to know them a bit better and understand what makes them tick when it comes to OA books.
WHY ARE OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IMPORTANT TO YOU?
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH OA BOOKS?
Please share your thoughts with us!
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate and provide information around business models for Open Access books. What business models are out there for Open Access books? How are these evolving and are there particular challenges that could be addressed to improve these?
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate discussion and conversation around metadata (developments) specifically for Open Access books.
Group members can ask questions on metadata for Open Access books, share news updates, come up with new ideas and initiatives for improving metadata for OA books and highlight industry developments or opportunities.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe Dutch Research Council / Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) introduces a continuous call for funding OA Books stemming from NWO-funded research.
More Information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2020/06/open-access-books-call-make-your-book-openly-accessible.html
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