Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture seeks works generally considered “nontraditional” in that their nontraditionality is established by the eschewing of conceptual boundaries that separate the humanities, and specifically rhetoric, from the rest of the academic world. We encourage submissions that take risks, to such an extent that “risk” is recognized as the…

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Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2012 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC on Dec. 10-11. Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings…

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The MLA will launch its new scholarly communication platform, MLA Commons, at the 2013 convention in Boston. Designed to facilitate active member-to-member communication, MLA Commons will support the work of divisions and discussion groups, offer a platform for the publication of scholarship in new formats, and much more. The Committee on Information Technology and others…

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Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities.

Paper Machines is an open-source extension for the Zotero bibliographic management software. Its purpose is to allow individual researchers to generate analyses and visualizations of user-provided corpora, without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge.

Lead the Libraries and the Libraries’ Digital Strategies & Services group in collaboratively developing, integrating and supporting current and emerging technologies for all library services to enhance and improve the learning and research experience of our users. Facilitate and improve access to digital scholarly resources through a multitude of web services platforms. Lead the Libraries’…

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