Tag Archives: scholarly publishing

January 10, 2013, 11:00 am

Rethinking Peer Review in Academic Publishing: An Interview with Frontiers

This is the eighth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Anvil Academic, Stanford Highwire Press, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

Today I speak with Kamila Markram, president of Frontiers, a new online platform for open access publishing in science fields. Frontiers is a grassroots initiative started by scientists for scientists, with an immensely innovative new peer review system. Our discussion today covers Frontiers’ scope and goals, and how it plans to contribute to the changing landscape of academic publishing.

AK: Could you explain what Frontiers is about, and what makes it distinct from …

October 8, 2012, 11:00 am

A ProfHacker TweetChat with Anvil Academic: Presenting Digital Work for Promotion and Tenure

By Adeline Koh

Last Friday, ProfHacker ran a live TweetChat with Anvil Academic (@anvilacademic), a new press that aims to bring scholarly rigor to publishing digital projects. Anvil is led by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Read our former posts about Anvil here, here, and visit their spanking new website (now accepting submissions!) here. You can also find some great overviews of Anvil’s work in Jack Dougherty (@doughertyjack)’s and Lisa Spiro (@lisaspiro)’s blog posts.

Below is an edited Storify of the chat that showcases the major topics discussed on Friday with the core Anvil team on Twitter. If you are interested in the entire discussion, visit the unedited Storify here. Also, if you have a digital project that you’d like to discuss at any stage for consideration with Anvil, contact Fred …

April 20, 2012, 11:00 am

Introducing the Journal of Digital Humanities

By Mark Sample

Late last month saw the debut of the Journal of Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that features “the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community” during the previous quarter. ProfHacker readers ought to find this new journal, edited by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s Dan Cohen and Joan Fragaszy Troyano, worth a look. (Full disclosure/humblebrag: I have a piece in the issue.)

If the contents of the inaugural issue—which range from an essay arguing that humanists need to understand and interpret quantitative data to a review of the WordSeer text analysis tool—fall outside your usual scholarly domain, then certainly the journal’s editorial and publishing apparatus will pique your interest. As Dan Cohen explained in a separate blog post, the journal operates under the model of catching the…