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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.edu

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/scholarlycommunication

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley

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.

• OA peer-reviewed journals– African Studies Quarterly – ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies– UF Journal of Undergraduate Research

• Digital Monographs– Institute for the Future of the Book– Open Monograph Press (Public Knowledge Project)– Gutenberg –e– Humanities E-Book (ACLS)– Enhanced publication projects

Humanities OA: books and journals

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

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

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

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 publication

Open Archives and Scholarly Editions

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

Online Chopin Variorum Edition

www.ocve.org.uk

Online Exhibitions

http://dloc.com/exhibits/ile

Collaborative Research Portalslike Rome Reborn

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

Conversational Hubs

http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/

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)

Recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education…

Open peer review: Long live marginalia!

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

Crowdsourced Publications

http://hackingtheacademy.org/

‘Radical’ Data Sharing

http://www.catalhoyuk.com/

Peer Review of Data

http://www.eviada.org/

Tools to Locate and Filter Everything

http:// www.pressforward.org

Considerations Moving Forward

• Peer review, attribution, and credit• Individual proclivities• Time, money skills, budgets, and resources

• Alternative academic careers• Knowledge-making vs. knowledge design?

– Scholarship or tool-building?– Interpretation vs. curation?– Contextualization vs. association?

The Digital Humanities @ UFYou’re invited…

See: ww.humanities.ufl.edu/digitalhum.html

Contact me: skacord@ufl.edu

Thank you