The Great 78 Project by the Internet Archive is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. I think it is one of the most amazing digital humanities projects out there today. As a material culture researcher and music collector I have enjoyed the collections very much. I decided to make a quick mix with some of my favourite tunes.
New peer reviewed, open access article, published on 13 August 2017: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? at TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.
#DH2017 starts today in Montreal. I share a snapshot of tweetage so far, and share a previous post related to access to publications in DH.
My post at the Red de Humanidades Digitales blog: http://humanidadesdigitales.net/blog/2017/08/07/revistas-academicas-elsevier-sciencedirect/#RedHD I also shared a revised dataset on figshare.
Repository Fringe is a gathering for repository managers and others interested in research data repositories and publication repositories. I collected an archive of #rfringe17, containing 1118 Tweet IDs. I then analysed the text of the tweets with Voyant Tools to identify most frequent terms and refined the results to 230 terms.
I used The Altmetric Explorer to locate any articles from the Journal of Digital Scholarlship in the Humanities that had had any ‘mentions’ online anytime. With the Open Access Button API we tried to locate open surrogates. Some insights are shared from the data.
So what can we do?
A quick note on Elsevier announcing its acquisition of bepress.
I am at the University of Granada as a member of the Knowmetrics project to participate in workshops and meetings around the project and the I Congreso Internacional “Territorios Digitales” under the umbrella Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales del Sur (#CSHDsur).
Where I share insights into the sources used to tweet from the UK Labour and Conservatives Twitter accounts from an analysis of a sample of 500 recent tweets from each account.
The report ‘Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research’ (Fyfe et al 2017) has been published today. I share some of the key recommendations.
