Tag Archives: Scholarly Publishing

“Privashing” vs. publishing — in search of an accurate term for a problematic academic tradition

This is a short piece reflecting on the need to distinguish publication that actually maximizes the degree to which we make academic work public from the traditional practice of handing control over to commercial, often for-profit, companies that make money by restricting publication. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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Perseus Open Publication Series

The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University and the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig announce plans for the Perseus Open Publication Series (POPS), a new venue for open access and open data publications in any format and in any language that the Perseus Digital Library can support. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on October 2, 2014
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“Reinventing Humanities Publication Project” receives €1.1 million grant from the Saxon Ministry of Science and European Social Fund

The Saxon Ministry of Culture has awarded the University of Leipzig a €1.1 million grant, with support from the European Social Fund and from the State of Saxony, to form an early career research group to help develop new methods of publication, predicated upon open data and open access, for the Humanities in general and for students of historical languages such as Greek and Latin in particular. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on May 2, 2013
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