Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange

The Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries / Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) have been working together on a prototyped user interface that connects a library-quality repository system (Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, modeled on Columbia's Academic Commons) with MLA Commons, an academic social networking platform that enables MLA members to communicate, collaborate, and share their work with one another. The CORE interface allows Commons members to upload, share, discover, retrieve, and archive digital work and other objects in an existing collaboratory network. This white paper describes the team's progress and setbacks over the grant period

The Syllabus as Scholarship

One of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016

A Crisis of Distinction: Reading Fin-de-Siècle Anxieties through Les Types de Paris

This dissertation combines micro-history, literary geography, urbanism, and the history of the French illustrated book. I work outwards from Les Types de Paris, a virtually ignored and chaotically hybrid collection of essays, short stories, physiologies and poetry that I position as a latter-day rewriting of the panoramic literature of the 1840s. This iteration, I argue, has to address a city that has become unheimlich for its inhabitants. Post-Haussmann, post-1870, in the throes of an Exposition universelle: this has become a city in constant flux. The volume’s contributors—from Edmond de Goncourt, Mallarmé, and Maupassant to Mirbeau, Richepin, and Zola—collaborate with its illustrator-curator, Jean-François Raffaëlli to try to make sense of a city whose social, gender, and geographical boundaries are no longer fixed. The resultant visual-verbal ensemble reveals a bourgeois urban class ridden with the anxieties of modernity—from the increasing visibility and mobility of the working class, to a crisis of masculinity in the face of defeat, to the shifting social and geographical borders of the city in which it lives. Here, the panoramic format reflects the authors' desire to frame the fluid, to stay the tide of change. Chapter Breakdown: 1. Beasts of Burden and All-Consuming Machines 2. The Spectacle of Science: The Foreigner in France 3. Taming the Peripheral: The Chiffonniers of Paris 4. Re-placing Paris: The New Topograph

Humanities CORE

The Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) are currently working together on the development of Humanities Commons, a platform for scholarly societies and related groups across the humanities, enabling members of those organizations to communicate, collaborate, and share their work with one another. Humanities Commons will link a federated group of social networking systems, modeled on MLA Commons, with a library-quality repository, modeled on Columbia's Academic Commons. We propose in this stage of the project to develop a working prototype for the user interface connecting the Commons with the repository system, which we are calling Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or Humanities CORE. This interface will allow Commons members to upload, share, discover, retrieve, and archive digital work and other objects within the same system in which they are already collaborating with one another

JLSC Board Editorial 2018

The current scholarly communication landscape is populated by a variety of actors and powered by an ever-increasing array of complementary and competitive systems for the production, publication, and distribution of scholarship. Recent years have also seen increasing numbers of proposals to recast these systems in ways that better align with the needs and values of the academy and its scholars. In this editorial, members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication consider the present environment and contemplate the future of academy-owned and -supported scholarly communication, as well as the role of libraries in that future

From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication

A group editorial from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Authors of Digital Publishing Projects

We came together in Spring 2018 at a two-day think tank hosted by Duke University Libraries and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with dozens of other librarians, publishers, and scholarly communication stakeholders, to work on the question of sustainably publishing large digital projects. The outcome of that discussion turned into an extended project at TriangleSCI 2018 and culminated in the heuristic presented here.The heuristic can be used as a checklist to help authors (and their project team) assess their needs when it comes to making their digital projects findable, impactful, citable, usable, and sustainable (creating the acronym FICUS)

HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only to measure a scholar’s progress toward embodying five values that our initial research suggests are central to all HSS disciplines: Collegiality, Quality, Equity, Openness, Community. HuMetricsHSS is an underway endeavor by a team of scholars and information professionals working to find ways to expose, highlight, and recognize the important scholarship that goes into not only research activities, but also the all-too-hidden work of peer review, teaching, service, and mentoring. The framework will support scholars in telling a more textured and compelling story about the impact of their research and scholarship and the variety of ways it enriches the academic and public life. While the endeavor started as a North American initiative, our purpose is to engage the broadest audience possible in the process, and European academics and research libraries would be natural and important stakeholders from which we wish to have input and feedback from

Library Publishing Research Agenda

This publication is an exploration of areas in which research is needed to support practice in the field of library publishing. The Research Agenda offers exploratory overviews of six topics (assessment, labor, accessibility, non-traditional research outputs, peer review, and partnerships), each of which includes a summary, potential research questions, and a list of relevant resources. This publication will be of interest to anyone conducting or interested in conducting research in the field. The Research Agenda was authored by LPC’s Research Committee with input from the LPC community. HTML versio

From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication

A group editorial from the JLSC Editorial Boar