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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
Studying world languages and…[Read more] -
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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Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[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 agoOn Tuesday 23 March at 4PM CET / 3PM GMT / 11AM EDT, we will be speaking to 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.
Join us to discuss this new bursary, as well as the challenges f…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMarkus,
I probably don’t need to tell you this, but that’s REALLY ambitious, mostly because creative authors do things you would never expect in a million years, and then they blame you when their docs don’t convert. Also because Word is Word.
What’s the technical plan? Where’s the repo? Are you building on pandoc?
I’m happy to advise on this;…[Read more]
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Tom Grady replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks for this really interesting reply Markus – my apologies for only just seeing it and responding now. I have somehow switched off my notifications so only just remembered to login and check!
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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, 11 months agoThe video of our discussion with Reggie Ragu and Jill Claasson about the new continental platform for #OA publishing in Africa is now available! https://youtu.be/5QIIsFt6ax8
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Lucy Barnes started the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago‘Voices from the OA Books Community’ was a series of interactive workshops run by the Open Access Books Network designed to collect a broad range of views on what a ‘Plan S’ policy for books should look like. The series began at the end of March 2021 and ran until the end of May 2021, with five sessions covering different policy aspects (scope,…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi Tom.
In fact, something “rudimentarily similar” already exists in several places (e.g. besides Editoria, also in Heidelberg with heiMPT or of course Calibre or similar), but mostly rather specifically embedded in local or proprietary workflows or limited to them.
The OS-APS, on the other hand, is intended to be flexibly usable and integrable…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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Tom Grady replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi Markus,
Sounds like you’re going to be working on some really interesting stuff here. Good luck! In what way do you see this as producing something different to existing tools that already seem to do a lot of these things (I’m thinking, platforms like Coko and Editoria)? A diverse choice of open source tools is useful but sometimes I’m a bit…[Read more]
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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear Lucy,
the funding guideline was aimed at open access publishers or corresponding publishing activities. Accordingly, this is a bit of a thread running through all the projects:
Sustainability and financing parameters of business and transformation models (CODRIA, TOAA, TransMILL, TU9_Monos, Wallstein-OA, ScholarLedPlus, KOALA, OAdine),…[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, 11 months agoMore boOmArks! On Tuesday (2nd March) we will be speaking to Reggie Raju and Jill Claasson about the new continental OA platform for books and journals that has been launched in Africa. It should be a really interesting conversation, and as always is free and open to all — hope to see you there!
Zoom link available with the blog post here:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi Markus, this is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I was wondering, are all the 20 projects linked in some way, or are you all independent of each other?
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