PKP: From Scholarly Open Access Movement to Institutional Player

by Nicholas Jankowski 16 November 2011

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) recently held its 3rd international conference in Berlin, marking the ‘ coming of age’  of what started as a movement for open access publishing in the late 1990s. Then, a loose coalition of professors, librarians, and graduate students reacted to the increasingly expensive and closed character of many academic journals, [...]

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Discovering Digital Medievalists

by Nicholas Jankowski 18 June 2011

A short response on the Humanist Discussion Group about journal editing software was enough to send me on a discovery trip this morning to a journal about which I was previously unaware: Digital Medievalist. Many aspects of this online-only open access title are interesting, two of which have already been noted: online and open access. [...]

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Augmenting WordPress for Enhanced Publication

by Clifford Tatum 10 June 2011

A recent post, titled: Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web?, provides background and rationale for our hybrid approach to enhanced publications. The diagram below is an expression of this approach. In this project, like many others in the VKS/eHumanities portfolio, we employ WordPress Content Management Software (CMS) as the foundation for digital scholarship. The diagram displays [...]

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Enhancing Scholarly Publications: Presentation in Ljubljana

by Nicholas Jankowski 8 June 2011

I have just completed the slides for a presentation on enhanced publications to be given at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, on 10 June 2011, which are available here. It’s always a pleasure preparing slides for such presentations and I delighted this time in searching for images of Ted Nelson’s notion of [...]

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Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web?

by Clifford Tatum 5 June 2011

The eHumanities Enhanced Publication (EP) project is envisioned as a hybrid platform that leverages Web 2.0 participatory modes of scholarly communication combined with formalized content structures imposed by Semantic Web formats. Translating this vision into a database design and formalized object relationships brings into focus contemporary tensions related to scholarly communication in the digital era. [...]

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PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011

by Nicholas Jankowski 24 May 2011

The Public Knowledge Project is organizing the bi-annual Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, September 26 – 28, 2011, in Berlin, in collaboration  with the Freie Universität Berlin. This particular PKP conference provides opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the decade-old Open Access Initiative, launched in December 2001. We are pleased to be included in the program of this [...]

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Scholarly Communication: Symposium Panel & Journal Theme Issue

by Nicholas Jankowski 24 May 2011

Members of the eHumanities Group Enhanced Publications (EP) Project are involved in two panels scheduled in the iCS / OII Symposium A Decade in Internet Time, at the University of Oxford, 21-24 September 2011. One of the panels deals with changes in scholarly communication, including issues related to enhanced publishing; the second panel includes editors [...]

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Enhancement: Issues of Form and Content

by Nicholas Jankowski 23 May 2011

I am frequently impressed by the stunning designs of websites maintained by colleagues, research projects, and academic institutions, which strikingly refute the conventional stereotype of monochrome staidness and simplicity associated with scholarly labor. Examples of beautiful scholarly sites abound, but three serve to illustrate such contrast to the stereotype: the site of the department program [...]

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Open access, enhancement and a court injunction

by Nicholas Jankowski 20 May 2011

SAGE Open Yesterday, 19 May, SAGE announced publication of the first set of articles in its open access journal SAGE Open. The announcement about the event indicates that these articles represent the initial group of manuscripts accepted for publication from more than 400 submissions since the initiative was announced in January 2011. Such a volume within a [...]

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Amazon and Enhancement

by Nicholas Jankowski 15 May 2011

Is Amazon, with an initiative launched in late April called The Backstory, entering the business of enhanced publishing, as suggested in a TechCrunch story? That story, pasted below, notes that the online retailer is adding a range of features to publications it is releasing in e-book format, including author interviews, podcasts and general background information [...]

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