Do you want to publish your monograph in Open Access but you are not sure where to start? The freely accessible OA books toolkit will help you to navigate the landscape of OA book publishing. Launched by the OAPEN Foundation,…
A List(en) of DH Podcasts
Merisa Martinez has put together a list of five DH podcasts that you might find stimulating: The DH East Asia Podcast The Price Lab for Digital Humanities at University of Pennsylvania Podcast Rocking the Academy Steering the Digital Scholarship Humanities+…
Think.Check.Submit: new checklist for books
Finding a good publishing venue is crucial for anyone wishing to share the results of their research. Think.Check.Submit offers a number of practical resources to identify qualitive and trustworthy publishers. In doing so, they aim to help researchers to make…
Unpaywall plug-in
Unpaywall, a service that indexes OA content from scholarly repositories and archives, offers a browser extension that allows you to read millions of scientific papers which are normally locked up behind a paywall. Sounds too good to be true? On…
What’s in a number? A closer look at Open Access readership data
Whereas academic journals that offer Gold OA options have become widespread in the last decade, the transition to Open Access for academic books is lagging behind, despite the fact that monographs are still the leading publishing format in the Humanities…
FOSTER e-learning portal
If you are looking to enhance your Open Science skills, you might want to check out the FOSTER portal. FOSTER is an e-learning platform that offers various introductory tutorials that aim to make researchers, as well as research support staff,…
Event: DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium
The DH Commons (Merisa Martinez and Demmy Verbeke) and prof. dr. Julie Birkholz of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities and the Royal Library of Belgium’s newly formed Digital Research Lab will organize a virtual DH discussion group for early career researchers in Belgium.…
Parthenos Standardization Survival Kit: explore standardized research workflows by discipline, method, materials
The Parthenos Standardization Survival Kit shows how researchers can use a range of tools, methods, and data standards to create a standardized research workflow, depending on their discipline, chosen approach, specific research materials, and so on. What sort of workflow…
Interview: Why Open Science? There can be no public trust in scholarship without openness
Mathematical engineer Joos Vandewalle, emeritus professor at the Faculty of Engineering Science (ESAT-STADIUS), is the very first Open Science ambassador at KU Leuven. Katrien Bollen, from KU Leuven’s Press Office and Policy Communications, interviewed Prof. Vandewalle about his views on…