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Open Humanities Press: new journals aim to solve publishing crisis

Like the UC Libraries eScholarship program, which facilitates the creation of peer reviewed open access journals, (See the UC Peer Reviewed Series in eScholarship) the Open Humanities Press seeks to provide a solution to the current crisis in academic publishing.

The Open Humanities Press has organized an impressive editorial board and is publishing an important set of scholarly journals. These include:

Visit the Open Humanities Press site to learn more about the open access movement and why it is important to faculty, students, libraries, and the future of academic publishing and the peer-reviewed system.

The Open Humanities Press has also launched a new series in critical theory published in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office.

And… the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office is hosting another set of peer-reviewed open access journals, including…

Journal of Anthropological Research

The Medieval Review

Michigan Feminist Studies

passages

Philosopher’s Imprint

Plagiary

Post Identity

Proceedings of the Western Society for French History

To learn more about how you can benefit from these initiatives please plan to attend UC Davis’ eScholarship presentation:

Taking Back Your Scholarship
Cathrine Mitchell, Director, CDL Publishing Group
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Shields Library, Second Floor Instruction Room

More info can also be obtained by contacting me, David Michalski, Social, Behavioral and Cultural Studies Librarian, UC Davis.

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2 Responses to “Open Humanities Press: new journals aim to solve publishing crisis”

  1. Thanks for this shoutout, David. Just a quick word of clarification for your readers: Open Humanities Press is an international scholar-led initiative and is not affiliated with the University of Michigan, although we have recently partnered with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office to publish open access monographs.

  2. Thanks for the clarification Sigi. I’ll make sure to direct people to the project during our upcoming Open Access Week, Oct 19-23, 2009.

    http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/hss/2009/10/02/open-access-week-event/

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