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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPrior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCountry-/region-specific metadata formats for OA books: Discussion of MAB2 as legacy standard in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and its relation to MARC21 and ONIX.
Bülte, T. (2020) Welche (Um-)Wege nehmen Metadaten für Open-Access-Bücher vom Verlag zum Discovery System der Bibliothek? [What (re-)routes do metadata for Open Access books ta…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship has recently advertised its “selective bibliography” on The Economics of Scholarly Monographs:
- Introduction & Framing: https://libraries.mit.edu/creos/research/economics-of-scholarly-monographs/
- Zotero library:…
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Hatem Akil replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m writing to express my interest in representing TC Digital Humanities as its Delegate Assembly representative for the term starting in 2021. I am a co-founder and former Chair of the Global Arab and Arab American CSLS forum, where I was instrumental in building coalitions with other fora in sponsoring Delegate Assembly resolutions.
Although I…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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 Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago<p style=”text-align: left;”>An interview with the COPIM project about open infrastructure: https://www.force11.org/blog/infrastructure-series-open-access-books</p>
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Lucy Barnes started the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA space to share links, thoughts, and questions about open infrastructure for OA books — current projects, potential future initiatives, wishlists…
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHappy OA Week. The OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) data trust project is celebrating by releasing two of our project’s draft outputs for community review.
Today, BISG released our project’s draft report of the OA book supply chain, prepared by Michael Clarke and Laura Ricci. To quote the press release:
The draft report is being distributed broadly to…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe video recording of yesterday’s discussion with the Open Access Tracking Project is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zvosU68ek&t=34s
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Jefferson Pooley deposited James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoAn introduction to a new edition of James Rorty’s classic 1934 book Our Master’s Voice. The book presents a coherent and original theory of advertising. Its main tenet holds that the ad business can only be understood within the totality of the country’s economy and culture. The alternative—to treat the business of publicity as a “ca…[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 5 years, 3 months agoJust a quick reminder that the next boOkmArk event is TOMORROW at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST; we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!
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Peter Suber replied to the topic Open access to doctoral thesis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe Open Access Tracking Project has been covering this topic. See the items tagged with both “oa.etds” and “oa.embargoes”.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.etds+%23oa.embargoes
The items are listed in the order tagged (most recent first), not the order published. I just tagged some older items to make sure they were included.
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Matthew K. Gold started the topic Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi All,
I wanted to share the opportunity below. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021 (Apply by Nov 15)
Best,
Matt
Co-PI, Manifold—
Manifold Digital Services Support Grants 2021
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The Manifold Team invites you to apply for a…[Read more] -
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Open access to doctoral thesis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJust to follow up here (and not intended to hijack the thread) but does anyone know if there has been an effort to collate a resource that sets out publisher policies on this issue? We had a question about OA books and doctoral theses at the Frankfurt Book Fair panel on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit, and it’s sparked a discussion on Twitter…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Open access to doctoral thesis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi Hans,
This is possibly not what you’re after, but I did find a list of resources from UKRIO about this topic: https://ukrio.org/research-integrity-resources/research-integrity-resources/open-access-and-doctoral-theses/
Hopefully others will have something more longform/authoritative (thanks for flagging that manual; I hadn’t come across it…[Read more]
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Hans de Jonge started the topic Open access to doctoral thesis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear members of the OA book network,
Hope you are able to help me with the following. Some weeks ago I came across a very useful post or guide regarding open access to PhD theses. Among others, it covered the well-known discussion / fears of PhD-students in the humanities that they wont get a book contract with commercial publishers for a…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoBring your own coffee on October 22 at 4 PM CEST/3 PM BST/ 10 AM EDT and dial in to talk to the OA books community! It will be a free flow chat, we got 40 min booked, we thought it would be a nice coffee break to have at the end of the OA Week 2020. Hope to see you there. Link to the event:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka started the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn this thread we will post announcements of all sorts: like an interesting upcoming event, a webinar worth attending etc, to draw your attention to these gems.
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