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
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.
I have just joined the Open Library of Humanities, (editorial committee), you can read more about it here in this Times article entitled Fools’ gold? This project was inspired by PLOSone.
With a subgroup from NeDiAMH and DARIAH I also started looking at and extending Unsworth’s concept of Scholarly Primitives, and whether, if you had a directory of online tools contents and methods, you could create a simple but scalable classification system (more an ontology than a taxonomy) which could be dynamically linked by journal articles, blog posts and working papers?
This is where Open Library of Humanities and DHCommons and hopefully DARIAH’s French partner OpenEdition, may be able to share their ideas and create a true community publication framework for Digital Humanities scholars. Or should I say, rather, scholars particularly interested in Digital Humanities-related topics.
And of course there are many alternatives
Scalar looks fascinating, and Liquidbooks offers an interesting collaborative wiki model for publishing http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/11135951/FrontPage
Such is the pressure to write that academics have no time to read the flood of published work. John Corner ponders a slightly absurd position.
And the answer is?
Ear Zow Digital