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POST: Redesigning WOAH: Women of Ancient History

Sep

6

2018

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on “the ways in which digital humanities projects can be used to amplify, to visualize, and to give agency to underrepresented groups.” Bond asks “How can digital humanities contribute to social justice?,” and goes on to provide examples of DH projects that explicitly seek ...

RESOURCE: Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines

Sep

6

2018

Yang Li, Chaojiang Wu, Erjia Yan, and Kai Li (all Drexel University) have published an article in PLOS One entitled “Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines.” From the abstract: This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but ...

RESOURCE: Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR

Sep

6

2018

Bijan Kumar Roy (University of Burdwan), Subal Chandra Biswas (University of Burdwan), and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay (University of Kalyani) have published “Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR” in LIBER Quarterly. From the abstract: This paper examines Open Access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access Repositories (OARs) affiliated to COAR (Confederation of Open ...

CFP: Current Research in Digital History 2019

Sep

6

2018

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has released a call for papers for the Current Research in Digital History conference, to be held at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia on March 9, 2019. Following the event, “presentations will be peer-reviewed and published in an online publication that accommodates dynamic visualizations and narrative.” Successful ...

CFP: Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

Sep

6

2018

Editor Lee Skallerup Bessette (Georgetown University) has issued a call for submissions for a collection of short essays entitled, Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers, which will be released by the University of Kansas Press. This collection seeks to focus on “the experience of those who have chosen alt-ac careers (aka ‘staff’)”: Librarians are ...

CFP: Collections as Data: Part to Whole

Sep

6

2018

The Collections as Data team have issued a call for proposals for project teams to “further develop approaches to integrating and sustaining collections as data implementation and use as a core organizational activity” and develop “broadly viable models that support implementation and use of collections as data.” Successful proposals will receive funding and support from ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2018 GLAM Cross-Pollinator Registration Awards

Sep

6

2018

The Digital Library Foundation and its partners have opened applications for GLAM cross-pollinator awards, intended to fund DLF-affiliated professionals to attend the conferences of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), the Museum Computer Network (MCN), and the Visual Resources Association (VRA): Museum and library staff face similar challenges in the digital ...

JOB: Archivist, Digital Archives, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Sep

6

2018

From the announcement: The responsibilities of this job include the supervision, coordination and monitoring of the archival projects, and specifically the born-digital archives. The incumbent oversees and develops local practices for managing born-digital material held and acquired by the CCA and assists in the strategic direction of acquisition, preservation, and access to born-digital and paper-based ...

JOB: Knowledge Services Librarian, Harvard University

Sep

6

2018

From the announcement: This Knowledge Services Librarian position is in Library & Knowledge Services (LKS) reporting to the Associate Director, Library and Knowledge Services. The Knowledge Services Librarian manages several projects and systems in support of the LKS digital initiatives strategy, including but not limited to identifying and implementing new business processes around the digital ...

RECOMMENDED: Piloting Digital Scholarship with the John W. Kluge Center and LC Labs

Aug

30

2018

In a post at the Library Of Congress’s blog, The Signal, Eileen Jakeway (Library of Congress) reported on a recent collaborative Digital Scholarship pilot with the John W. Kluge Center. Jakeway drew on a variety of tools and resources to design the program based on the needs of “all the fellows, interns and staff in ...

PROJECT: Torn Apart / Separados Volume 2

Aug

30

2018

Manan Ahmed (Columbia University, xpMethod), Maira E. Álvarez (University of Houston), Sylvia A. Fernández (University of Houston), Alex Gil (Columbia University, xpMethod), Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney University), Moacir P. de Sá Pereira (xpMethod), and Roopika Risam (Salem State University) have released Volume 2 of Torn Apart / Separados, building on the work in Volume 1, ...