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Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSession two: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Quality Assurance and Transparency
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/ooFGnKcdAQg
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NURw-KjT-zQZ1VAmSrghB02jF5JIPD5VD4dKqz5smyo/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
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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 4 years, 10 months agoThe video is available from our talk with Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph: https://youtu.be/FDN0tTLrVTA
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoJust re-upping this post about the COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers, which closes on FRIDAY https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited The 22 Frimaire of Yuan Shikai: Privy councils in the constitutional architectures of Japan and China, 1887–1917 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPrivy councils are among the most traditional, yet least conspicuous forms of collective decision-making in modern states. However, using the example of East Asia, this chapter shows that, far from being a moribund relic of the pre-constitutional past, advisory councils to the head of state were a highly productive global element of…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited Late Qing parliamentarism and the borderlands of the Qing Empire—Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang (1906–1911) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe article examines the relationship between the late Qing constitutional movement of 1905–1911 and the vast borderland regions of the Qing Empire–that is, Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. It traces how intellectuals and officials concerned with devising constitutional policies foresaw the integration of these regions into the nascent par…[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 4 years, 10 months agoHi all, We’re delighted to share details of the launch of Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera’s Dikeledi Ha Di Wele Fatshe, the first indigenous-language book to be published on the new continental platform for Open Access research in Africa. This launch was mentioned at our recent event with Reggie Raju & Jill Claasson about the platform.
The book will…[Read more]
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City in the group
Ottoman and Turkish Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis conference, co-organized by the Istanbul Research Institute
and Pera Museum, through local and international collaborations, seeks to offer new
insights on the complex layers of Istanbul’s urban landscape. It brings together innovative
studies in the fields of environmental history, political ecology, and critical art studies t…[Read more] -
Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks, Sebastian – I’m afraid I don’t have access to MIT’s Zotero group, but happy to say that COPIM’s Work Package 3 team (Izabella Penier, Tom Grady (@scholtom) and Martin Eve) have made references from their report available in COPIM’s Zotero group – the WP3-specific Revenue Models collection is available at
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNew on Knowledge Futures Groups’ Commonplace: Open Knowledge Infrastructures in Times of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.44d61468
(a reflective piece including some lessons that we’ve learned during the first year of COPIM)
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOpen Position: COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers. Application deadline: April 15, 2021.
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSession one: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Scope
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/iFeZTRhbKpk
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsILEU7FcnkZnUafdUIN4WUoT8syPPYNmPDT0Hcv4xs/edit?usp=sharing
The overview of current OA books funder policies that we…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited The contributions of family and local historians to British history online in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCommunity history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcriptions of historical documents ranging from newspaper articles and photographs, to wills and biographical records. Based on analysis of community- and institutionally-led participatory history sites, and interviews with family and local historians,…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOpen Position: COPIM Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books @ Loughborough University
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi everyone,
I would like to invite you to participate in a short 8-10 minute survey on citizen science funding in the SSH, part of the Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues (COESO) project.
The survey is on citizen science funding in the SSH and the results will help the COESO project in identifying funding needs for different types of…[Read more]
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José Darío Argüello-Rueda deposited Acciones de política pública para la participación política y la igualdad de las mujeres en el departamento de Santander (Colombia) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis chapter presents the results of the evaluation of public policy actions for women’s political participation and equality in the department of Santander (Colombia). The methodology used in this research can be used by anyone who wants to evaluate the coherence of women’s political participation policies from a public policy analysis approach.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Gold Open Access, outcomes in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDear All,
In the United Kingdom, lose-lose outcomes for publishers and universities are likely, due to mandate-driven transitions to Open Access, since Gold Open Access is projected to be associated with revenue reductions for journals and cost increases for libraries:…[Read more]
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Jennifer Kemp replied to the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOASPA recently held a webinar on Open Book Metadata that may be of interest. The recording, slides and discussion notes are posted on their blog.
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