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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, 3 months agoHi all, next week we’re really looking forward to talking to Christina Drummond and Lucy Montgomery to discuss the OAeBU Usage Data project and the new developments the work will take over the coming years:
Wednesday 9th November, 1pm GMT, ‘Open Access Usage Data: Present Knowledge, Future Developments’: Sign up here!
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Gabriela Méndez Cota started the topic CfP Teknokultura in the discussion
Accessible Writing and Publishing in the Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoCfP Special Issue of Teknokultura https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/nextissues
As open access policies have become assimilated to the commercial dynamics of academic knowledge production and circulation, publishing processes in the academic setting have emerged as strategic spaces where to explore new styles of research and social…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Facing Demons: The reclamation of Mahishasur as a heroic figure in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis is an article focused on the Mahishasur movement. The article also discusses the ideological bases of this movement.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Unearthing history by reinterpreting myths and traditions ( Book Review By Ish Mishra) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoBrahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :
The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoRecently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किसकी पूजा कर रहे हैं बहुजन (महिषासुर: एक पुर्नपाठ) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन से संबंधित यह पहली पुस्तिका है, जिसमें महिषासुर से संबंधित विभिन्न परंपराओं की जानकारी है। इस पुस्तिका के बाद 2014 में एक और पुस्तिका “महिषासुर” शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई। 2016 में इन दोनों पुस्तिकाओं के लेखों को कुछ अन्य लेखाें के साथ मिलाकर एक पुस्तक “महिषासुर: एक जननायक” प्रकाशित की गई। उसके बाद एक अन्य स्वतंत्र संपादित पुस्तक “मह…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMedical tourism can be defined as the process of travelling outside of an individual’s country to another to seek medical care. The current research studies medical tourism in Ghana historically, focusing on Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumase. Using a qualitative research approach, the study p…[Read more]
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Julian C. Chambliss deposited Why Open Access in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoAn infographic exploring why open access is central to the Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop at Michigan State University for International Open Access Week. This infographic was published on Platypus: The Blog for Humanities Commons Team.
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Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoFocusing on rural white communities in the early twentieth century, this article examines how disability, queerness, and economic estrangement were intertwined in American eugenic assessments of the “unfit.” In doing so, it attends to the knotty relations of power by which such communities were simultaneously adjudged deviant and bestowed with the…[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, 3 months agoHi all, join us for an OA Week event on climate justice and open access books on Tuesday next week:
25th October, 3pm BST, ‘Lowering the Barriers to Climate Research: Climate Change and OA Books’: during Open Access Week, we’ll bring together a panel including authors, publishers and campaigners to discuss the impact of open access books relat…[Read more]
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Subaveerapandiyan A deposited A Study of Obstacles in Plagiarism Software Subscribing by Colleges in Tamil Nadu in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis article attempts to comprehend the current issues and hurdles that Indian colleges affiliated with Tamil Nadu State Universities encounter when trying to subscribe to a software that detects plagiarism. The study’s goals are to determine whether colleges employ anti-plagiarism software, whether they ensure that their student-given a…[Read more]
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Martins Uze E. Tugbokorowei deposited Obiorah Momife and the Sojourn of Garlands in a Tempestuous World: A Review of So Far Away, Eyes of the One Who Loves and Where Two Roads Meet by Obiorah Momife in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoA review of three poetry collections by Obiorah Momife titled So Far Away, Eyes of the One Who Loves and Where Two Roads Meet. The three books contain some of the most pungent poems penned by any poet in contemporary Nigeria. They are witty and engaging just as they inspire the reader to take steps to change the present decadent situation that…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited »une institution cosmopolite«? Rituelle Grenzziehungen im freimaurerischen Internationalismus um 1900 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoA response to the decision of Wiley Global to “disappear” 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley’s move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoA response to the decision of Wiley Global to “disappear” 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley’s move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHello all,
Jisc is organising a webinar series on the topic of open access books related to the forthcoming UKRI open access policy. Please find more details below and don’t hesitate to register if interested!
In August 2021, UKRI launched a new open access policy, which for the first time includes a provision for long form scholarly works…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited La práctica de música coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIntroducción: En el artículo se identifica la presencia de la práctica coral en el centro de la educación superior. En Cuba el movimiento coral jugó un importante papel con el nacimiento del movimiento de artistas aficionados. La consolidación de una agrupación coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas no fue posible hasta el…[Read more]
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