Scholarly Communication at Texas A&M

Bernard Frischer will deliver the Digital Humanities lecture at Texas A&M on February 26, 2010, at 4:00 PM in Green Auditorium, Architecture Building.  The topic of the lecture is “‘Rome Reborn’: A Case Study in Digital Documentation and Publication.” 

Dr. Frischer is a Professor in the Classics Department of the University of Virginia, where from 2004-09 he also served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He is currently Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, whose mission is to apply 3D digital tools to simulating cultural heritage artifacts and sites as heuristic instruments of discovery. (more…)

The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) created a wiki for “The Evaluation of Digital Work.” It allows any teacher or scholar to contribute and use content on developing, gathering, and sharing material about the evaluation of digital work for hiring, tenure, promotion, and other rewards of the profession.  The URL is http://wiki.mla.org/index.php/Evaluation_Wiki. (more…)

NBOL-19: An Online Review of New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century  is “here to revolutionize academic reviewing” — by posting reviews of new books on English and American literature of the nineteenth century within ninety days of their publication, by inviting authors to respond to each review within thirty days of its submission, and by making use of tools available in an online format such as tagging and commenting.

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) began in 2006 to explore issues related to scholarly journal publishing in humanities and social science (HSS) associations. Eight prominent scholarly societies agreed to participate in a study with financial assistance from the Mellon Foundation.  The study analyzed data provided by the association for eight journals, considered the flagship journals in anthropology, sociology, economics,  modern languages, history, religion, politics and statistics. The new report, “The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations” by Mary Waltham was recently released.

Some interesting details from the report: (more…)

The Office of the Provost, The Texas A&M University Libraries, The Texas A&M University Press, and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research sponsored “The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age,” a symposium on Scholarly Communication in February 2009. (more…)