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  • Welcoming the new Journal of Open Humanities Data

    After some months in the making, I am delighted to be able to draw attention to the new Journal of Open Humanities Data. I’m particularly pleased to be a member of the editorial board. Fully peer-reviewed, JOHD carries “publications describing humanities data or techniques with high potential for reuse.” The journal accepts two kinds of…

  • Interview on Open Access for theology and religious studies

    [Last year I gave an interview to Omega Alpha, a splendid blog on Open Access for theology and religious studies. I republish it here with the kind permission of Gary F. Daught, with thanks. It is slightly edited for flow and style, but it still clearly shows its origins as an interview. The substance remains…

  • Book review: The Future of Scholarly Communication (Shorley and Jubb)

    [This review appeared in the 24 July issue of Research Fortnight, and is reposted here by kind permission. For subscribers, it is also available here.] Perhaps the one thing on which all the contributors to this volume could agree is that scholarly communication is changing, and quickly. As such, it is a brave publisher that…

  • Wikipedia, authority and the free rider problem

    [This post argues that historians have much to gain from getting involved in making Wikipedia authoritative, in spite of the many disincentives within the current ecology of academic research. However, to make it work, historians would need to embrace a more speculative and more risky model of collaborative work.] I am a selfish Wikipedian. By which…

  • Open Access and open licensing

    Much of the recent concern about Open Access in the UK, at least for the humanities, has not been about the general principle, but rather about the means. In my hearing, however, perhaps at least as much consternation was in reaction to the prospect of subsequently licensing those outputs for re-use using one or other…