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Author: Mark W. Shealy

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Editors’ Choice: Professional Digital Marketing for Academic Self-publishing? Strategies, Tactics, and Questions

Academic publishing is quickly evolving beyond traditional double-blind peer review conventions toward more open-review and open-access publishing sensitive to institutional changes in higher education (Abeles, 2012)…. However, given these new academic formats and sources, a rethinking of the full range of strategies and tactics by which scholarship may be marketed seems reasonable. Read full post […]

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Editors’ Choice: Histories Of Data

On November 18-19th, 2016, the Huntington Library hosted a conference on “Histories of Data and the Database”, convened by Soraya de Chadarevian and Ted Porter of UCLA…I did a selective livetweet of the conference; some even more selective reflections follow. Read full post here.

News, Resources

Resource: Sticky Notes and Small Groups, Digital Work in the Classroom

From the post: I’m one of those humanities professors who is increasingly introducing technology-intensive assignments and activities into what would otherwise be more conventional, analog courses on writing and literature. And if you teach a large or largish class that involves in-class, hands-on work with digital tools, you would do well to come up with […]

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Editor’s Choice: Researcher 2020, Does the Library Still Matter to Social Scientists?

The library has always been a fundamental partner in the research process. But key changes in the information, technology, economic, and scholarly environments are challenging this relationship and raising critical questions about the value and impact of the library in scholarship and its working relationship with scholars in the social sciences. Read full post here.

By: Jim Neal
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Editors’ Choice: Protecting Contributor Anonymity

For many years now, users have turned to Omeka when they feel it is important and necessary to collect materials related to the significant events in the recent past or an ongoing situation that will likely be of historical import…Even though the Contribution plugins could be configured to collect very little personal information, they required […]

News, Resources

Resource: Teach Access Tutorial

From the post: This resource is part of the Teach Access Initiative, and provides best practices for making accessible mobile and web apps. This tutorial currently provides basic training for developers and designers, with more disciplines to come! If you are new to accessibility, you’ve come to the right place – the following material will […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Library Publishing Coalition Forum

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is accepting proposals for the 2017 Library Publishing Forum, to be held March 20 – 22, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. An international, community-led organization with over 60 member libraries, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic and research libraries to support content creators as they […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Zooniverse GLAM/Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

From the ad: Zooniverse, the world-leading research crowdsourcing  team, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher and project lead to help direct the development of the Zooniverse platform, especially in the area of text and audio transcription for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and humanities research. Read full ad here.

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Editors’ Choice: Early African American Film, Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930

We are a group of undergraduate and graduate students in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles… The database we have created contains information on films, actors, production companies, and other aspects of early silent-era African American race films. The database is intended to allow the public to learn about this period […]