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Open Access publications

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I am often asked to mail commercial books, sorry I normally have to refuse. However, there are recent-ish publications that are open access. allowed via institutional repositories or were free to download, that I have written down here:

Open access or available articles, chapters, etc

Books

  1. Champion, E. (2012). (). Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism, Pittsburgh: Entertainment Technology Center Press. 978-1-300-54061-8. URL: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/game-mods

Book Chapters

  1. Champion, E. (2020). Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems, or Arguments? In S. Hageneuer (Ed.), Communicating the Past in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12-13 October 2018) (pp. 13-25). London: Ubiquity. https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/chapters/10.5334/bch.b/
  2. Champion, E. (2019). From Historical Models to Virtual Heritage Simulations. In P. Kuroczyński, M. Pfarr-Harfst, & S. Münster (Eds.), Der Modelle Tugend 2.0 Digitale 3D-Rekonstruktion als virtueller Raum der architekturhistorischen Forschung Computing in Art and Architecture (pp. 337-351). Heidelberg, Germany: arthistoricum.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.515
  3. Champion, E. (2017). “Single White Looter: Have Whip, Will Travel” in Angus A.A. Mol; Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke; Krijn H.J. Boom; Aris Politopoulos, (Eds.)., The Interactive Past: Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games, Sidestone Press, pp.107-122. URL: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-interactive-past-50944.html ISBN: 9789088904370.

Journal articles

  1. Rahaman, H., & Champion, E. (2019). To 3D or Not 3D: Choosing a Photogrammetry Workflow for Cultural Heritage Groups. Heritage, 2(3), 1835-1851. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/2/3/112
  2. Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. (2019). 3D Digital Heritage Models as Sustainable Scholarly Resources, Sustainability: Natural Sciences in Archaeology & Cultural Heritage, 11(8). MDPI. Editor, Ioannis Liritzis. Open Access. Invited article. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/8/2425
  3. Nishanbaev, I., Champion, E., & McMeekin, D. A. (2019). A Survey of Geospatial Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage. Heritage, 2(2), 1471-1498. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2020093
  4. Bekele, M., & Champion, E. (2019). A Comparison of Immersive Realities and Interaction Methods: Cultural Learning in Virtual Heritage. Frontiers in Robotics and AI | Virtual Environments: Emergent Technologies for Cultural Heritage and Tourism Innovation. doi:10.3389/frobt.2019.00091
  5. Champion, E. (2017). Bringing Your A-Game to Digital Archaeology: Issues with Serious Games and Virtual Heritage and What We Can Do About It. SAA Archaeological Record: Forum on Digital Games & Archaeology, 17 No.2 (special section: Video Games and Archaeology: part two issue), pp. 24-27. March issue. URL: http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/Record_March_2017.pdf
  6. Champion, E. (2016). A 3D PEDAGOGICAL HERITAGE TOOL USING GAME TECHNOLOGY. International Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, (special issue, selection of VAMCT2015 conference papers). International Journal MAA (ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Thomson Reuters, USA; Scopus) Vol.16, No.5, pp. 63-72.URL: http://maajournal.com/Issues2016e.php DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.204967
  7. Champion, E. (2016). Worldfulness, Role-enrichment & Moving Rituals: Design Ideas for CRPGs. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (ToDIGRA), Volume 2 Issue 3 (special issue, “Diversity of play: Games – Cultures – Identities” selected DiGRA2015 conference papers). URL: http://todigra.org/index.php/todigra/index
  8. Champion, E. M. (2016). Digital humanities is text heavy, visualization light, and simulation poor. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DH2015 Special issue). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw053 URL: http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/07/llc.fqw053
  9. Champion, E. (2016). Entertaining the Similarities and Distinctions between Serious Games and Virtual Heritage Projects. Special Issue in the Journal of Entertainment Computing on the theme of Entertainment in Serious Games. Vol. 14, May: 67–74. Elsevier. Online. DOI: 1016/j.entcom.2015.11.003. PDF available at Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284930065_Entertaining_The_Similarities_And_Distinctions_Between_Serious_Games_and_Virtual_Heritage_Projects
  10. Champion, E. (2015). Defining Cultural Agents for Virtual Heritage Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments-Special Issue on “Immersive and Living Virtual Heritage: Agents and Enhanced Environments,” Summer 2015, Vol. 24, No. 3: 179–186, MIT Press. URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/pres/24/3 PDF available at Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284930065_Entertaining_The_Similarities_And_Distinctions_Between_Serious_Games_and_Virtual_Heritage_Projects

Conference paper

  1. Champion, E. (2016). Worldfulness, Role-enrichment & Moving Rituals: Design Ideas for CRPGs. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (ToDIGRA), Volume 2 Issue 3 (special issue, “Diversity of play: Games – Cultures – Identities” selected DiGRA2015 conference papers). URL: http://todigra.org/index.php/todigra/index

 

 

 

Book series in Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage

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Digital Heritage/Archaeology

Digital Humanities

See also https://adho.org/publications which lists

Books and Book Series

NB Is UWM also a Digital (book series) publisher? http://dc.uwm.edu/arthist_mobilizingthepast/1/

A Good Publisher For A Virtual Heritage +3D Open Access Journal

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If I gathered academic colleagues and other partners to produce an Open Access Virtual Heritage/Digital Place Journal with dynamically linked 3D models viewable online or as downloads for computers or Head Mounted Display formats like WebVR perhaps) who would be a good open access publisher?

archaeology publishers mostly in the area of digital archaeology and video games

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I have been given a deadline of February 3 to source funding for a flight to the Netherlands to the “Interactive Pasts” Value conference 4-5 April 2016. They said they hope to publish an edited book from the conference and I asked them if they had heard of the below publishers (although they probably have their own) so I added the below links. Hope this is of use to someone. Happy to add links to publishers that I have missed.

What has pushed me towards Open Access, or at least, more open and scholar friendly publications

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I was asked to help manage a special session of Entertainment Computing on Entertainment in Serious Games and Entertaining Serious Purposes, UTS, Sydney 2014.
Then I was asked to help edit a special issue of Entertainment Computing on Serious Games. I accepted, nice people.
My paper “Entertaining The Similarities And Distinctions Between Serious Games and Virtual Heritage Projects” also went through review (by reviewers unknown) and after some serious defense of my essay which I think is relevant to virtual heritage people in general, it was accepted.
And now today Elsevier the publisher asked me to sign online forms.
This is what dumbfounded me:

Open Access: No, I do not want to publish my article gold open access, and would like my final published article to be immediately available to all subscribers.

I have to sign this and agree to this, OR pay. No alternatives.
I do want my journal article to be open access but as I helped edit the special issue FOR FREE, wrote the article FOR FREE, and have to sign away all my rights to a journal publisher that did nothing except create a huge amount of work for me, I am rather UPSET that I am forced to sign that I DON’T WANT OPEN ACCESS. I do, I JUST DON”T WANT TO PAY FOR IT.

So if you are reading this Elsevier, I suggest you change your dictatorial and deliberately misconstruing forms. I suggest you give people more options AT THE START.

With a profit from 2014 of 955 million pounds ($1.27 billion) and 1.18 billion pounds the year before, I think you can afford to!

It saddens me that there are no established open access journals in my research area of virtual heritage (well, unless the author pays for it).
But I will keep looking.

are there open access virtual heritage/digital archaeology journals?

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Not so many virtual heritage open access journals (help me here!) but there are various open access archaeology journals:

  • The open access archaeology journal I first knew of (around 2004 I think I first heard of it?) http://intarch.ac.uk/ does have Author Processing Charges (APC) and I don’t know the cost of APC (I assume it varies based on page count) but it does also include 3D media asset. Now “All our content is Open Access”.
  • Now there is also Open Archaeology which only issues once per year, and accepts many graphic formats (but not 3D?) but what interested me was this request:It is important that authors include a cover letter with their manuscript. Please explain why you consider your manuscript as suitable for publication in the Journal, why will your paper inspire the other members of your field, and how will it drive research forward. However, there is a pricing paragraph on the right. Most confusing, is it open access and authors pay? In passing, there is an interesting issue entitled Topical Issue on Challenging Digital Archaeology.
  • There is also a wider ranging series of open access journals in ancient studies. I note also the open access and free articles in the JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
  • Frontiers in Digital Humanities is not archaeology-specific but does have a digital archaeology section so deserves a mention.As it includes experimental work I am not sure how it is rated as a quality journal output by educational institutes (Indexed in: Google Scholar, CrossRef) but in Australia very few open access journals in any field (especially Digital Humanities!) seem to receive the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rating anyway! Frontiers have a tiered reader-decided impact-led publication system which I find rather interesting if puzzling.
  • There is also Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry Journal, which is a little more wide ranging, I believe, than the title suggests (although there is obviously an emphasis on the Mediterranean region) . It has been free open access PDF articles since 2014, and is issued three times a year.
  • American Journal of Archaeology is open access but only for book reviews, review articles, editorials etc. Eprint articles can be stored in an institutional repository.
  • There is also the Open Access Journal: Virtual Archaeology Review.
  • Doug’s archaeology blog lists archaeology journals and open access journals.
  • Please also consider the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology – looks interesting! “Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past.” It features both open access and subscription access.
  • For more general publishing outlets in archaeology please consider these resources http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/anthropology/openaccess
  • Finally, I’d like to mention The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press including Digital Archaeology such as open access issue/proceedings (?) Archaeology 2.0. Open Access in general? I hope so!

Digital Heritage/Virtual Heritage Open Access Journals? A work-on! I wonder if there is enough of a market to push for a virtual heritage open access journal or if it is more realistic to dock such an idea under the arm of a more general archaeology or heritage open access journal.

For more game-related articles there is the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (but I don’t know if they still have APC); Game Studies and Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture, and so on.

Open Access Journals – the debate continues

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This short but well written article reminded me we need to have a list of open access accessible and affordable journals in our area

Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University speaks out on Elsevier and Open Access

by Sal Robinson

One of the most significant indications that academic publishing is a broken system is the fact that, periodically, major institutions and academics—secure and well-funded and with nothing in particular to gain from it—corroborate that it is really and truly a broken system.

Open Access journal scandal-the replies

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The recent Science article on Open Access journals that accepted a scam paper has met with a storm of protest. Please be careful with the article as it did not have a control group (did not compare to paywall publications) and had a bias in OA journal selection.
Yes there are lists of OA journals to avoid (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/) but here are some responses to the contentious Science article

http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/science-sting-openaccess-peerreview/
http://oaspa.org/response-to-the-recent-article-in-science/
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/04/science-hoax-peer-review-open-access
http://im2punt0.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/science-mag-sting-of-oa-journals-is-it-about-open-access-or-about-peer-review/
http://osc.centerforopenscience.org/2013/10/04/a-publishing-sting-but-what-was-stung/
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1439

NB Curt Rice, Trondheim, recently tweeted: The EU has a goal that 60% of publications they finance are open access, by 2016.