Category Archives: Publishing

Supporting Multimodal Projects

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Alissa Jones Nelson

How can libraries/academic publishers support scholars doing multi-modal projects (things that can't be published on paper)? peer review editing support open access tenure Examples of projects, ideas for standards, discussion of what scholars (particularly DH scholars) need from publishers Also … Continue reading →

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Networked Books

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Michael Fisher

What are they? Are they a good thing? Are they inevitable? Who wants them? mutlimodal, Open Access, etc.

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Metadata

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Anna Pollock-Nelson

What is good, what is bad? How do presses organize all their metadata? How can we best distribute/share metadata between libraries, aggregators, publishers?

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Financial sustainability for OA publications

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Katherine Purple
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Aggregating and Curating Scholarship on the Open Web: The Why and How (Talk and Play Session)

Posted on June 18, 2013 by joanftroyano

Aggregating and curating scholarship from, or on, the open web. Is it possible? Why should we do it? And how? Let's get together to discuss and play with this approach to publishing. Aggregating and curating web content can be a … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Let’s Make a (Book) Deal

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Jack Dougherty

I'm willing to offer a free hands-on workshop on how to use PressBooks, an open-source tool that transforms WordPress content into publications for print and digital devices, including PDF, web-book, Mobi (for Kindle), and ePUB (for iBooks, Nook, etc.)  Anyone … Continue reading →

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Collaborative scholarly publishing initiatives

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Julia Oestreich

I'd love to get together and discuss models for collaborative scholarly publishing initiatives, like those that have been established at places like Michigan, Indiana, and Penn State. How are such collaborations structured? How do these collaborations change the nature of … Continue reading →

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workflows!

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Kevin Hawkins

I'm interested in learning how various publishing operations—large and small, academic and trade—handle the production process from after a manuscript is handed off from acquisitions till you send it to the printer or make a digital product available. What parts … Continue reading →

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