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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Matt Barrow

Matt Barrow

American Historical Association - 0 views

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    The American Historical Association was founded in 1884, and promotes historical studies across "every historical period and geographical period." The AHA produces several publications including the American Historical Review, a history journal, and AHA Today, the AHA's blog. The website also serves to provide teaching materials.
Matt Barrow

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media - 0 views

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    This website seeks to make history accessible to an online audience through a series of online exhibits. Topics range from "Imaging the French Revolution" to "The September 11 Digital Archive." The website offers free access to primary sources as well as accompanying teaching modules.
Matt Barrow

Mass Digitization of Books: Exit Microsoft, What Next? - 4 views

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    This article discusses Microsoft's departure, for lack of potential business, from the digitization of books. He argues that Google's vast lead in this area will allow them to continue to dominate it with its competitors failing to find sufficient outside funding. The article concludes hoping for a joint funding by leading institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Matt Barrow

Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values - 0 views

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    This article expands on the subjects discussed in Dan Cohen's earlier article on The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing. He breaks the supply and demand model, introduced in the previous article, into four influential categories that need focus to better both sides. He argues for impartiality when approaching a text, passion for the subject, shame for the lack of sharing compared to other fields, and the shift from narcissistic desires for compensation to a desire for communal knowledge.
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The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing - 0 views

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    This article discusses the extensive nature of scholarly publishing. He explains the industry in terms of a social contract between the supply side, publication, and the demand side, the consumers. The supply side of this contract has enjoyed large growth recently, with the continued growth of digital outlets, while the demand side has remained stationary, maintaining its view of the book as the definitive form of publication. In conclusion, the author argues that curation will solve this problem, and become more important that publication once publication ceases to be limited.
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Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No - 0 views

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    This article discusses the economic nature of publishing from the viewpoint of an author and editor of the works of others. The author explains the legitimacy of publishing companies' practices in the past, but calls into question those of modern for-profit publishers. He rejects the current model, in which his readers would pay more for a day's use of his article than for either of his books, and supports a billable-hours system like that of lawyers or psychiatrists.
Matt Barrow

Directory of Open Access Journals - 0 views

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    This website is, as its title suggests, a directory of open access journals. These journals are free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals that cover a wide range of subjects. It features search fields for both journals and articles, with the ability to search by title, ISSN, author, keywords, and abstract.
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Cohen on Open Access - 1 views

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    This article is an announcement of, and response to statements issued by the AHA on two separate occasions. The author discusses the stagnant nature of attempts to deal with open access with an economic regard to academic journals. He supports a consortium model, and calls for general support for fledgling open access journals from the AHA.
Matt Barrow

Themes from THATCamp - 1 views

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    This article provides a brief description and thematic discussion of THATCamp, a gathering of digital humanists of diverse backgrounds and varying positions on the technical spectra. The author first discusses the ability of collaboration to crush division, specifically in the case of relieved tension between faculty and librarians. She then goes on to discuss the forward-looking nature of THATCamp, noting that action is part of the digital humanities ethos. Finally, she praises the unconference model adopted by THATCamp, encouraging creativity and collaboration.
Matt Barrow

On a Definition of Open Humanities - 1 views

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    This article comments on common ideas found in many definitions of digital humanities. The author uses the collaborative aspects of digital humanities to draw connections to a broader description of what he calls the open humanities. This new distinction includes the "aspects of the humanities aimed at democratizing production and consumption of humanities research," but excludes the purely digital elements of the digital humanities, such as code, markup, and hardware.
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