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Book SynopsisExploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key drivers, opportunities, and challenges.
The concept of open research is reconfiguring scholarly communication across all disciplines, changing how understandings are produced through more accessible, participatory, ethical, and transparent approaches, reaching and involving far broader and more diverse publics. Considering multiple stakeholder perspectives, Arthur and Hearn argue that for the humanities to proactively contribute to open knowledge at the global scale, new ways of thinking are needed within every part of the system. In the open information economy, the humanities are on a trajectory following the sciences, but parts of the world are almost completely left out. A cultural shif
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This book offers a clarion call to academia for the necessity of participating in "the global drive toward an interconnected digital future". Open Scholarship in the Humanities is required reading for digital humanists, chairs of humanities departments, librarians, directors of digital humanities centers, and deans of liberal arts colleges. -- Laura C. Mandell, Professor of English Literature and Founding Director of the Center of Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, USA
Paul Longley Arthur and Lydia Hearn's Open Scholarship in the Humanities gives a concise and up-to-date history and context for open, digital practices in the humanities. A must-read for anyone new to the debate, with plenty also for old hands, Open Scholarship in the Humanities is a crucial and accessible volume for our digital, open times. -- Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
A compendium, state-of-the art survey and synthesis – an essential entry point, providing the broadest, strongest close-reading and analysis of current open scholarship trends in the Humanities to date. * Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada *
Table of Contents
List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements About the Authors Introduction: Unlocking Scholarship Chapter 1: Scholarly Communication from Past to Present Chapter 2: Global Policies Promoting Openness Chapter 3: Barriers in Implementing Open Scholarship Chapter 4: Toward the Open Humanities Chapter 5: Reshaping how Universities Assess Research Impact Conclusion: Pathways to Action Notes Bibliography Index
