Digital publishing?

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeBridging the Unbridgeable Lunch Meeting

27 August 2015

Digital publishing?

Open access? Google Books?With or without permission?

Publishing on the Internet?Online journal: HSL/SHLBlogs

• Bridging the Unbridgeable• Late Modern English Letters• Robert Lowth blog

HUGE database

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HSL/SHL

Online journal: 2000-2010 Curious experiment

Publishing on the internet?Learning a program

Peer reviewed, ISSN-number Became a laborious process Since June:

Paper journal: De Gruyter3

Blog ≠ online journal

Bridging the UnbridgeableResearch project 2011-2016Since 2011, also Facebook, Twitter

Late Modern English LettersTeaching project, since July 2012

• students blog about their research

Robert Lowth blogPrevious research project, 2005-2010

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The blog’s functions

Publishing research findingsNot our major findings

Building a researchers’ network Learning about the field

Getting feedback, quick information

Sharing information Getting data for research: Surveys

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Knowledge dissemination

HUGE databaseFreely available upon requestOur target users

• Linguists and everyone else interested• For research and linguistic advice

Submitting a new NWO projectCorrespondence database, corpus,

digital edition• Making material available for research

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Digital publishing: yes or no?

Discussion ...Increasing Open Access

• Books, articles

Knowledge dissemination (NWO)Visibility: you and your research

Blogging a good wayIn addition to regular publications!!!

And: blogging is a skill

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Blogging and science

Bloggen voor de wetenschapNWO, April 2014Robin Straaijer, José van DijkOne reaction: to my blog post

Not the way to do it Determined by contents, needs

Purpose, benefitsVisibility

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Learning to blog

Contents: starting point Form: to support the contents Style: lightly academic

Text (not too much), images, links Need for interaction: surveys (polldaddy)

Finding the blog? Under-water-screen

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Online sources

Databases: OED, ODNB, WorldCatBut ...

Who produces these tools:Status of the writer, publisher

Blogs: are they being moderated? Is Wikipedia a good source?

According to research: yesWikipedia “Talk pages” (Morana)

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Online journals? Almost daily:

New digital journals• An article? Editorial board?

Journal of Scientific Research and Reports• Open access, peer reviewed

British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science: why me?

Good English? Do they really know me? What use is it to me?

What really matters: publishing in A journals11

Impact factors

English Today’s impact factor: 0.414 English Language & Linguistics: 0.462 Historiographia Linguistica: “currently 0” Language and History: 0.2 Transactions PhilSoc: “currently 0” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural

Development: 0.6: Well done, Robin!

Cf. Science and Nature: ca. 30

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