From the announcement: How can investigators make better use of the abundance of high-quality research available on the web? As contributions increase to open-access repositories, journals, and social media communities, the task of discovering, evaluating, and sharing relevant work with peers and collaborators grows more challenging. For those in the sciences, materials like data, pre-prints,…

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PressForward is now accepting applications for partners to develop pilot publications using the PressForward plugin and methods. Pilot partners receive a grant to help cover startup costs and extensive PressForward support to develop (or relaunch) their own PressForward publications. PressForward publications use innovative methods to aggregate scholarship, research, white papers and informal conversations published on the open…

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The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University announces the launch of Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies.  Provoke! is a web collection of digital projects focused on sound studies, digital humanities, and the audio arts. See the collection here: Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies

Welcome to A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century Demography. This website is a digital supplement to the dissertation I am preparing as a requirement of the Ph.D. program in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, titled “Prediction and Control: Global Population, Population Science, and Population Politics in the Twentieth Century.” …The dissertation…

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The Talk of Europe – Travelling CLARIN Campus project, in pursuit of its goal to facilitate pan-European collaboration in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computer Science, seeks proposals for their international creative camps. Further information and the CFP can be found here.

At their best, altmetrics tools are meant to encourage scholarly activity around published papers on line. It can seem, indeed, like a chicken-and-egg situation: without healthy, collegial, reciprocal cultures of scholarly interaction on the web, mentions of scholarly content will not be significant. Simultaneously, if publications do not provide identifiers like DOIs and authors, publishers…

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