Read Richard Poynder’s excellent and thoughtful article on how large research libraries have been receiving their journal content in the form of huge all-inclusive provider-based bundles (the “big deal’ model so loved by the big providers has however not proved to be such a good deal for anyone else). And if you think “Open Access” is the solution to the problem, you should read what the author has to say about that as well.
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
April 29th, 2013 by Michael WinterA collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international project in the digital humanities, Mapping the Republic of Letters, centered at Stanford University, presents visualizations that analyze “big data” relating to the world of early-modern scholars, with a focus primarily on their correspondence, travel, and social networks. The project makes use of quantitative metrics while retaining a committment to the qualitative methods of the humanities.
What is the Digital Public Library of America?
April 8th, 2013 by David MichalskiThe Digital Public Library of America is set to be lauched April 18, 2013, but what is it?
Tim Carmody explains in his post “How the Digital Public Library of America hopes to build a real public commons.” on The Verge
Keep up with the Digital Public Library here http://dp.la/
All That is Solid Does Not Melt in the Cloud: Founding a Postcolonial Digital Humanities
March 18th, 2013 by David MichalskiPostcolonial Digital Humanities is an initiative seeking to bring critiques of colonialism, imperialism, and globalization to bear on the digital humanities. Questioning the neutrality of digital codes and systems, this project asks how historic and contemporary colonial relations of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability influence the digital world, the digital archive and libraries of the future.
Led by post-colonial scholars Roopika Risam and Adeline Koh, the Postcolonial Digital Humanities initiative positions itself as “an emergent field of study invested in decolonizing the digital, foregrounding anti-colonial thought, and disrupting salutatory narratives of globalization and technological progress.”
To learn more about this interesting and important work read the group’s FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
http://dhpoco.wordpress.com/founding-principles/
BBC News Item on the Crisis of Book Publishing
February 4th, 2013 by Michael WinterFrom the article: “The printed book risks going the way of the cuneiform tablet, papyrus scroll or vellum parchment, say the doomsayers….but despite the huge growth in e-books in the past few years, the traditional publishing houses are not yet predicting the end of printed book.
In fact, figures for 2012 show that while e-book sales are still on the rise, the rate of decline in print sales has actually slowed.”
Reprints from the UC Libraries
December 12th, 2012 by Adam SiegelThe UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from our collections. In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, the UC Libraries are making many of these books available for purchase in reprinted editions. These reprints are made from images of the actual library books, digitally cleaned and processed for a better reading experience.
Find and order reprints from the UC Libraries’ collections.
Have questions about the service? Wondering which books are available to be ordered, how long it takes for them to arrive, and how much they cost? Read the Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
What Was the University Press?: UMP’s Douglas Armato on the Scholarly Monograph
November 14th, 2012 by David MichalskiDouglas Armato, director of University of the University of Minnesota Press discussed the role of the University Press in Scholarly Communication in his presentation at the 2012 Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition.
This blog entry on the University of Minnesota Press website summarizes his interesting take.
Historians Question Sustainability of Open Access in the Humanities
September 24th, 2012 by David Michalski_Inside Higher Education_ article questions whether the Humanities will prosper within Open Access publishing models developed in the sciences.
Not So Fast on ‘Open Access’
September 24, 2012
By Scott Jaschik
Opening the Process of Academic Peer Review
July 23rd, 2012 by David MichalskiThe Journal of Peer Production, a journal which focuses on the contradictions of peer or collaborative production is itself using an innovative peer-review system to review submissions.
See: http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/
Inspired by a movement called Open Process Publishing, the journal publishes drafts and critical reviews, and author repsponses to her or his critics alongside final presentations. In doing so, they expose to their public some of the the detailed work that goes into editing academic journals.
The aims of this process include achieving more transparency in how editorial decisions are made, creating an atmosphere for more thorough interaction, discussion, and engagement between readers and authors, and generating more energy and pace for scholarly publications.
More info on Open Process Publishing can be found here:
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/10-1/10-1prug.pdf