December 9, 2021
From the Open Library of humanities blog: We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities is now open to expressions of interest from subscription journals in the humanities seeking to move to a gold open access (OA) publishing model without...
December 1, 2021
I have a new working paper, ["Surveillance Publishing,"](https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j6ung/) up on SocArXiv: > In place of Google’s propensity to buy, Clarivate is selling bets on future scholarly productivity and impact, among other academic prediction...
November 30, 2021
From the MIT press release: [Direct to Open] moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model, where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. Instead of purchasing a title...
November 9, 2021
Dorothea Salo, in a delightly feisty OA chapter on preservation of digital humanists' work and evidence: Most institutions investing anything at all in the digital humanities have only one to a mere handful of digital humanists on the faculty. These paltry few face...
November 8, 2021
Jorrit Smit and Lauren Hessels, writing for the LSE Impact blog on the "performativity of evaluation": … the way in which specific evaluation methods assume, and thereby produce, different understandings of research and impact. In a recent paper (open...
October 30, 2021
Jeffrey Young writing for EdSurge: Facebook (er, I guess now Meta) announced that it would partner with Coursera and edX to help push Meta’s curriculum in augmented and virtual reality, which it calls the Spark AR Curriculum. A spokesperson for edX, which started as a...
