CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Renaissance Studies + New Technologies

RSA 2015 26-28 March, Berlin Since 2001, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2015 meeting in Berlin, we will offer panels on new research (with 20-minute papers, followed by questions) and a digital “poster session,” (with 3-minute introductions followed by hands-on […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Conversations about Digital History and the Digital Humanities

1. The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities by Stephen Robertson For the last nine months I’ve spent much of my time exploring digital history. Part of becoming director of RRCHNM involved familiarizing myself with areas of work about which I had only passing knowledge despite almost twenty years of reading, teaching and creating digital history. Moreover, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The State of Public Access in the United States

Today, I’m going to provide a brief update on federal initiatives targeted toward making federally funded research articles and data publicly accessible. There have been four primary federal actions in the last 12-18 months addressing public access to federally funded research. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act was introduced in both the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Library Supervisor, State College of Florida Digital Initiatives

Provides oversight for the SCF Libraries digital initiatives. The successful candidate serves the faculty, students, staff of the college and researchers within the college community by developing, implementing, and maintaining new and existing digital delivery and publishing platforms, programs, and services. Responsibilities also include supervision of library staff, student assistants, and volunteers at the Venice […]

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CFP: Articles on Critical Digital Pedagogy

Hybrid Pedagogy is issuing a call for participation for articles on critical digital pedagogy. Submissions should help to map (or represent) the terrain of the field, while considering the following questions: How can digital technologies and cultures interrogate and/or deconstruct the roles of student and teacher? How does critical pedagogy change the way we see […]

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Job: Zotero Developer

Come Code With Us! The Zotero project is looking to hire a full-time, contract developer to help extend the Zotero ecosystem. At first you will work primarily on a specific new tool. If all goes well, we’d hope and expect that you’d be interested in remaining a full-time paid member of the Zotero team longer […]