Job Announcements, News

Job: King’s College London Seeks Teaching Fellows

King’s College London is offering two positions for teaching fellows in the Department of Digital Humanities. A Teaching Fellow in Digital Curation is required for a 9-month full time position. The post is available from the 1st January 2016. A part time (0.5) Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture is required for up to 20 months fixed […]

Announcements

Announcement: Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?

The Centre for Disruptive Media is organizing an event,  “Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?”  Guest speakers Janneke Adema (Coventry University, UK), Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US), Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK), and David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) will discuss numerous topics concerning academic publishing platforms. Register and find out more here.

News, Reports

Report: Reading Digitally, Archiving by Smartphone

I couldn’t help but wonder at the relative lack of digitally-inflected panels, workshops, and seminars at the Modernist Studies Association’s most recent annual conference in Boston last week (2 workshops, 2 roundtables, 1 panel, 1 seminar, and a “digital exhibition,” featuring 8 projects). I set aside lobster rolls and Sam Adams and oh-so-good East Coast pizza […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Criteria for Open Access and Publishing

This article gives an overview of the history and current status of the DOAJ. After a brief historical overview, DOAJ policies regarding open access, intellectual property rights and questionable publishers are explained in detail. The larger part of this article is a much requested explanation on how DOAJ uses its new set of criteria for […]

Blog, User Registration

Coming Soon: A New DHNow User Registration Process

This is the first of a series of blog posts that will address some important updates to the DHNow editorial process. Next semester we will roll out a new system that will streamline our registration process for editors-at-large and allow existing editors to add volunteer dates, create user bios, and update profile information through the […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: $20 Million in Gifts Furthers Hanlon’s Cluster Initiative | Dartmouth Now

Dartmouth has received gifts totaling $20 million to establish two interdisciplinary faculty groups, called academic clusters, to help elevate the institution as a global leader in the fields of neuroscience and digital humanities and to attract exceptional scholars whose work will benefit individuals and societies around the world. Read full announcement here.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Digital Methods Initiative, Winter School 2016

The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on Critical Analytics and the Meanings of Engagement. The format is that of a data sprint, with hands-on work on engagement metrics for political, social and media research, together with a programme of keynote speakers and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars […]