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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy’s future and an argument for reconceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes—especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia—necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick’s own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through Media Commons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future. Check out the author's website here. For more information on Media Commons, click here. Listen to an interview with the author on The Critical Lede podcast here. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities" - Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies" - Inside Higher Ed

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"Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explores how museums and archives make science and cultural heritage relevant to people's everyday lives, while soliciting their assistance and participation in research and citizen projects. More specifically, the book critically examines how different forms of engagement are constructed, how concepts of democratization are framed and enacted, and how epistemic practices in science and the humanities are transformed through socio-technological infrastructures. Tracking these central themes across disciplines and research from Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA, the book simultaneously considers their relevance for museum and heritage studies. A History of Participation in Museums and Archives should be essential reading for a broad academic audience, including scholars and students in museum and heritage studies, digital humanities and the public communication of science and technology. It should also be of great interest to museum professionals working to foster public engagement through collaboration with networks and local community groups"--

Museology --- Sociology of cultural policy --- Community organization --- citizen participation --- museums [institutions] --- Museums and community. --- Community and museums --- Communities --- Archives --- Communication in learning and scholarship. --- Communication in museums. --- Museums --- Citizen participation. --- Social aspects. --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- History --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Depositories --- Repositories

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Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly co-operative, interdependent and collaborative research. This is particularly true where computational methods are employed in large-scale digital humanities projects. This book, which celebrates the contributions of Harold Short to this field, presents fourteen essays by leading authors in the digital humanities. It addresses several issues of collaboration, from the multiple perspectives of institutions, pro

Humanities --- Group work in research --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- Research --- Technological innovations --- Humanités digitales --- Data processing. --- Technological innovations. --- Recherche --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Mass communications --- Sciences humaines --- Communication savante --- Data processing --- Informatique --- Innovations --- Humanités numériques --- Recherche. --- Group work in research. --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Group research --- Research groups --- Teamwork in research --- Classical education --- Research. --- E-books --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Humanities computing --- DH --- Humanities - Research --- Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations --- Humanities research --- Humanités numériques

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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book trade in the 1620's, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the values of the commercial world through which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with new technologies and changing academic environments.

Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Scholarly publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- History --- 094.1 <4> --- 094 "15/16" --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--?"15/16" --- 094.1 <4> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa --- book history --- publishers --- trade [function] --- scholars --- church history --- bookselling --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- booksellers --- trade [general function] --- booksellers [people]

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Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics -- or "altmetrics"--While also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship. Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age. ContributorsMayur Amin, Judit Bar-Ilan, Johann Bauer, Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin F. Bowman, Kevin W. Boyack, Blaise Cronin, Ronald Day, Nicola De Bellis, Jonathan Furner, Yves Gingras, Stefanie Haustein, Edwin Henneken, Peter A. Hook, Judith Kamalski, Richard Klavans, Kayvan Kousha, Michael Kurtz, Mark Largent, Julia Lane, Vincent Larivière, Loet Leydesdorff, Werner Marx, Katherine W. McCain, Margit Palzenberger, Andrew Plume, Jason Priem, Rebecca Rosen, Hermann Schier, Hadas Shema, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Daril Vilhena, Jevin West, Paul Wouters.

Science --- Library research --- Bibliometrics. --- Bibliographical citations --- Scholarly publishing --- Scholarly electronic publishing --- Scientific literature --- Research --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- Bibliométrie --- Références bibliographiques --- Edition savante --- Edition électronique savante --- Sciences --- Recherche --- Communication savante --- Evaluation --- Statistical methods --- Technological innovations. --- Documentation --- Méthodes statistiques --- Innovations --- Bibliometrics --- Bibliométrie --- Références bibliographiques --- Edition électronique savante --- Méthodes statistiques --- Bibliométrie. --- Statistical methods. --- Evaluation. --- Bibliographical references --- Citation of sources --- Citations, Bibliographical --- Footnotes, Bibliographical --- References, Bibliographical --- Bibliography --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Electronic scholarly publishing --- Electronic publishing --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Science literature --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Information services --- Methodology --- Research teams --- Statistical bibliography --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General