UF Open Access Week, 26 October 2011 - PowerPoint Presentation

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UF Open Access Week, 26 October 2011

Open Access

and the

Digital Humanities

Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D. Associate Director

Participate in our 2011-12 Speaker Series: “Rehumanizing the University”www.humanities.ufl.eduSlide2

The Future of Scholarly Communication Project

Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future. A Project Report and Associated Recommendations, Proceedings from a Meeting, and Background Papers. Diane Harley and Sophia Krzys Acord. (March 2011)

Final Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. Diane Harley, Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator; Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D.; Sarah Earl-Novell, Ph.D.; Shannon Lawrence, M.A.; C. Judson King, Professor, Provost Emeritus, and Principal Investigator.

(January 2010)

Project Website and Associated Document Links: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/scholarlycommunicationFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon

FoundationCenter for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, BerkeleySlide3

Digital Humanities: The humanities for and in a digital age.

Is there an ‘elective affinity’ between some subfields in the humanities and digital technologies? N.B. There is extraordinary variance in communication needs, forms, and practices across the disciplines.Slide4

OA peer-reviewed journalsAfrican Studies Quarterly

ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comic StudiesUF Journal of Undergraduate ResearchDigital MonographsInstitute for the Future of the BookOpen Monograph Press (Public Knowledge Project)Gutenberg –e

Humanities E-Book (ACLS)Enhanced publication projectsHumanities OA: books and journalsSlide5

http://www.gutenberg-e.org/Slide6

eHumanities Enhanced Publication Project (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

http://digital-scholarship.ehumanities.nl/enhanced-publications/Slide7

The Yin and Yang of Open Access

Courtesy of: Steven C. Wheatley, vice president, American Council of Learned Societies

In-progress work, data, archives, grey literature, book reviews, etc.

Peer-reviewed formal archival publicationSlide8

Open Archives and Scholarly Editions

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/Slide9

Online Chopin Variorum Edition

www.ocve.org.ukSlide10

Online Exhibitions

http://dloc.com/exhibits/ileSlide11

Collaborative Research Portalslike Rome Rebornhttp://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/Slide12

Conversational Hubshttp://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/Slide13

How do new (sub)fields emerge? Nascent fields, as they emerge, fairly often have these community blackboards, and I remember the times when the Drosophila community had stuff flying around on faxes. C. elegans

has a Worm Breeder’s Gazette…on the Web…People put up negative results as well as positive results, everything…these things seem to work well as the field is struggling to establish itself and people realize that nobody’s got a breadth of expertise or tools… [Molecular Biologist](Harley et al., 2010: 277)Slide14

Recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education…Slide15

Open peer review: Long live marginalia!

http://http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence//Slide16

Crowdsourced Publications

http://hackingtheacademy.org/Slide17

‘Radical’ Data Sharing

http://www.catalhoyuk.com/Slide18

Peer Review of Data

http://www.eviada.org/Slide19

Tools to Locate and Filter Everything

http:// www.pressforward.orgSlide20

Considerations Moving Forward

Peer review, attribution, and creditIndividual proclivitiesTime, money skills, budgets, and resources

Alternative academic careersKnowledge-making vs. knowledge design?Scholarship or tool-building?Interpretation vs. curation?

Contextualization vs. association? Slide21

The Digital Humanities @ UFYou’re invited…

See:

ww.humanities.ufl.edu/digitalhum.html

Contact me: skacord@ufl.eduThank you