ABOUT US
Digital Humanities Now is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Since 2009, DHNow has been refining processes of review and aggregation to support conversations about the digital humanities research and practice.
Our goal is to encourage scholars to share their research and learned expertise on the open web. We are developing approaches to surface important gray literature—scholarly work including white papers, presentations, research reports, essays, and other genres of work that may not otherwise have a formal venue for publication. DHNow is generously supported by Digital Scholar.
DHNow highlights scholarship—in whatever form—that drives the digital humanities field forward as Editors’ Choice.
Additional items of interest to the field—jobs, calls for papers, conference and funding announcements, reports, and recently-released resources—are redistributed as news.
DHNow is also an experiment in contemporary scholarly communication practices and a critical case study for PressForward, a free and open-source software project launched in 2011 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. PressForward is now a project of Digital Scholar, the nonprofit corporation which also operates Omeka, Sourcery, Tropy, and Zotero.
How this works
Submit your work
If you would like your blog or feed to be considered for publication in Digital Humanities Now, please use this this form.
To nominate a news item—jobs, calls for papers, conference and funding announcements, reports, and recently-released resources—former and current guest editors should use the Nominate This bookmarklet to nominate an item and its associated RSS feed.
DHNow aggregates potential content via RSS from our list of subscribed feeds, which includes hundreds of venues where high-quality digital humanities scholarship is likely to appear, such as the personal websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, and other feeds. DHNow is open for anyone to join.
We also seek to discover new material by monitoring Bluesky, Mastodon, and other social media for stories discussed by the community, and by continuously scanning the broader web through generalized and specialized search engines. Guest Editors also directly nominate content from their own networks.
The aggregated material is reviewed, nominated, and discussed directly in our WordPress installation using our own PressForward plugin. Each week Guest Editors use the plugin to survey the incoming content from both our subscribed feeds and their own networks and nominate content for broader dissemination through DHNow. Based on their nominations, the DHNow project manager and a guest editor each select content for publication on DHNow. The project manager then creates a brief post on DHNow, and links back to the original content in order to direct attention and conversation to the creator. The weekly materials are also distributed as an email newsletter, which you can sign up for using this form.
If you would like to participate in the selection process, consider becoming a Guest Editor. Visit our Editors’ Corner to find out more about what our Guest Editors do and how to apply.