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RESOURCE: Scholarly journal publishing in transition– from restricted to open access

Feb

23

2017

Bo-Christer Björk (Hanken School of Economics) has self-archived his article, “Scholarly journal publishing in transition– from restricted to open access,” published in Electronic Markets, The International Journal on Networked Business. From the abstract: Electronic delivery has become the norm, but the same publishers as before are still dominating the market, selling content to subscribers. This ...

CFP: Women’s History in the Digital World

Feb

23

2017

The organizers for the Women’s History in the Digital World conference have released a call for papers. The conference, to be held at Maynooth University in Ireland July 6-7, “brings together historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists and more to present on their work, network and collaborate on current and future projects at the intersection of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

Feb

23

2017

The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) is accepting proposals from project teams for the 2017 institute, to be held July 30-August 4 at the College of Wooster. At ILiADS, ideas grow through collaborative, iterative processes. During this week of digital immersion, teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students are ...

JOB: Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Boston College

Feb

23

2017

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek a Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian to guide digital preservation and digital archiving activities for an increasing amount of born-digital and digitized content. Working closely with the Head of the Digital Library Program and in concert with team members and professionals across the libraries, he or she will ...

JOB: Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian, Harvard University

Feb

23

2017

From the announcement: The Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian will report to the Head Librarian of the John G. Wolbach Library, located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Responsibilities will include: Digital Technologies Support S/he will provide technical leadership and hands-on programming expertise for digital library projects; identifying emerging technologies that have ...

POST: FADGI’s 10th Anniversary: Adapting to Meet the Community’s Needs

Feb

9

2017

Kate Murray (Library of Congress) has authored a guest post on the LoC blog The Signal, detailing changes to the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FAGDI) in its 10th year of operation. After describing some of the accomplishments FADGI has achieved in the past ten years (see a summary chart here), Murray introduces some of ...

RESOURCE: Editorial: Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order

Feb

9

2017

Code4Lib Journal has published an editorial by Ruth Kitchin Tillman (University of Notre Dame), “Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order,” in the latest issue. But I see in this last year and these last few weeks the material for a call which I intend to make here, a call for action by ...

RESOURCE: Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs

Feb

9

2017

College & Research Libraries has made available a pre-print of Ixchel M. Faniel and Lynn Silipigni Connaway’s (both OCLC) article, “Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs.” Faniel and Connaway’s article details a qualitative research study they conducted, examining librarians’ experiences with research data management (RDM) and identifying factors that “facilitate or ...

RESOURCE: Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta

Feb

9

2017

Creative Commons has announced the beta release of the new CC Search, designed to make CC content more easily findable and usable. The beta uses the Rijksmuseum, Flickr, 500px, the New York Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as its test sources. “The new CC Search harnesses the power of open repositories, allowing ...

CFP: BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities

Feb

9

2017

The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has published a call for proposals for their BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities conference. To be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from September 22-24, 2017, the conference “aims to study how digital humanities grows out book ...

CFP: HASTAC 2017

Feb

9

2017

HASTAC has issued a call for proposals for the 2017 conference, with the theme, “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities.” HASTAC 2017 will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, from November 2-4, 2017. Possible topics include: challenges of monolingualism within the digital humanities indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology ...