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Resource: Online Teaching Resources on Shinto
I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources. The course provides both home and exchange students with a cursory overview of religions in Japan, their history, and their present status, and presents some wider issues related to the study of religions in Japan.…
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Resource: The Future of the Essay in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools…
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Report: AI Literacy in Higher Education
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education…
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Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Archivist at University of Southern Mississippi
The Digital Humanities (DH) Archivist provides strategic leadership for the Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub, the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL), and University Libraries’ digital initiatives. This position directs large-scale digitization and digital preservation projects, develops statewide metadata and preservation policies, and advances external funding opportunities through grant leadership. The DH Archivist supervises staff and student workers,…
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Job Announcement: Digital Project Archivist at California State University, Los Angeles
The Project Archivist is a grant-funded, term-limited position responsible for the comprehensive digitization and accessibility of the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection (approximately 4,791 photographic materials) housed in the Cal State LA Special Collections and Archives. The archivist will ensure the long-term preservation of both the physical and digital collection, create high-quality metadata for discovery,…
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Editors’ Choice: Data rescue for World Digital Preservation Day 2025
The project is Safeguarding Research & Culture…The concept is simple: download public datasets that are at risk of being lost, and replicate them as widely as possible to make them hard to destroy, though obviously there’s a lot of complexity buried in that statement. When the Trump administration first took power, there were a lot…
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Editors’ Choice: ‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains Olivia Guest, computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University and lead author of the paper. ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time,…
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Editors’ Choice: Opening the black box of EBBO
Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access to only a part of what survives. While completeness may be a tall order, researchers at least require that digital archives be representative, that is, have the same distribution of items as whatever they are used…
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DHNow Newsletter, November 12, 2025
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Rachel Hogan, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the authors argue against the “inevitability” of AI adoption, especially in university contexts. They highlight the potential conflicts of interest that exist when the AI industry is responsible for funding a lot…
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Editors’ Choice: Giallo: Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films
Italian Giallo Films seem to be having a little resurgence recently. I first was exposed to them when the Criterion Channel app had a collection of them for Halloween a few years ago and now watch a few of them around this time of year mixed in with other spooky season movies. They are terrible…
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Editors’ Choice: How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine
For decades, the scholarly publishing system has rightly been critiqued for perpetuating inequity, pricing out the public and the underfunded, and enshrining rigid formats that often exclude innovation and marginalized voices. While open access (OA) once promised to democratize scholarly communication, it has, in many cases, become as commercialized as traditional publishing: a pay-to-publish system…
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Editors’ Choice: The Digital Futures of History: Can AI be superstitious?
The phenomenological mediation of the screen can make it very hard to tell these different kinds of connector apart. In a recent post, the historian of belief Francis Young makes an intriguing argument which expands on this. Young argues that the reception of AI, across the public and the scholarly spheres, has shifted society towards…
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CFP: Call for Submissions: Electronic Literature Collection Volume 5 (ELC5)
The editorial collective for Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 (ELC5) is excited to announce that our Call for Submissions is now open! As in previous volumes of the collection, we are interested in capturing a broad view of works to represent electronic literature and all that it means in the present technocultural landscape. This could…
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Job Announcement: Metadata Archivist at University of Texas at Austin
The Briscoe Center for American History is one of the nation’s leading research centers for historical study. The center’s archives, libraries, museums, and historic buildings are part of The University of Texas at Austin’s commitment to collecting, preserving, and making available the evidence of the past. The center’s exhibit spaces, classrooms, and Reading Room are…
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Job Announcement: Head of Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization at Pennsylvania State University
Penn State University Libraries seeks applications for the position of Head of Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization (PCD). Reporting to the Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections and Digital Strategies, this tenure-line faculty librarian position provides strategic leadership and administration of the Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization department, including the University’s state-of-the-art Conservation Centre. This position will build…
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Report: Advancing Research Through DataCite’s Global Access Fund: Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the…