Category Archives: Collaboration

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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BookSmash

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Eric Hellman

Can you think of anything fun and hackery to do with full-ish text of 197 trade books from these authors? Let's use the HarperCollins BookSmash competition as a jumping-off point for brainstorming. Rob Bell Ian Douglas Debra Driza Peter Drucker … 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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