For over a decade now Open Access (OA) has fundamentally changed the way scholarly publishing works. In the Digital Humanities (DH) the development of new types of scholarly publications in the form of digital projects presents an interesting scenario for the continuation of the OA movement. In this talk I will discuss how DH projects disrupt traditional scholarly communication and publishing systems, focusing on the role of authors, editors, publishers and libraries and how as digital humanists we contribute to shaping these new systems through the various roles we assume in DH project development. Additionally, I will discuss how these new DH publishing models may also serve to increase geographical and linguistic diversity in our field. Currently research and researchers from peripheral countries are sorely underrepresented in international scholarly publishing. Viewing DH as a transformative motor in academia gives us the opportunity to propose new models that adequately incorporate digital scholarly output on a global scale and increase the visibility of countries on the periphery little favoured by the traditional scholarly publishing model.

1. Open Access and
Digital Humanities
Opening up (to) the world
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2. Institute for Bibliographic
Studies
Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México (UNAM)
Red de Humanidades Digitales
RedHD
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3. Outline
• Scholarly publishing in periphery countries
• Open Access
• Traditional scholarly publishing process
• DH publishing
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4. Scholarly publishing on the
periphery
• Invisibility of research
• Limited sharing with centre and with each other
• Structural obstacles
• Subtle prejudices
• Language
• Legitimization of knowledge
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5. A Geopolitics of Academic
Writing - Canagarajah
• “the values of the Western intellect traditions are reflected in
the conventions and practices of academic communities and
their communications; how mainstream journals and their
publishing practices are congenial to the interests of center
knowledge while proving recalcitrant to periphery discourses;
and how academic writing/publishing functions are an
important means of legitimating and reproducing center
knowledge”.
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7. Open Access
By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability
on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these
articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,
or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial,
legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from
gaining access to the internet itself.
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8. First Open Access declarations
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002):
• “is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed
journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to
it”
• Bethesda Statement on OA Publishing (2003)
• “The purpose of this document is to stimulate discussion within
the biomedical research community on how to proceed, as
rapidly as possible, to the widely held goal of providing open
access to the primary scientific literature.”
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9. Berlin OA
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the
Sciences and Humanities
• Open access contributions include original scientific research
results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital
representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly
multimedia material.
• Scientific knowledge and cultural heritage
• constitute a global and interactive representation of human
knowledge, including cultural heritage
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10. Let’s talk DH
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11. Quantifying Kissinger
Primeros Libros
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12. Research &
data
collection
Authoring
Writing
Peer review
Publishing
and
dissemination
Discovery
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13. Authorship
S. Harris
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14. Quantifying Kissinger
Códice Mendoza
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15. Research &
data
collection
Authoring
Writing
Peer review
Publishing
and
dissemination
Discovery
Collaboratio
n
Formats
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16. Peer review
• Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in History
• NINES (19th century British and American studies)
• Criteria for Reviewing Scholarly Digital Editions / Kriterien für
die Besprechung digitaler Editionen, Institute for
Documentology and Scholarly Editing
• RedHD Checklist for Digital Humanities Projects
• DH Commons Journal
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17. Research &
data
collection
Authoring
Writing
Peer review
Publishing
and
dissemination
Discovery
Collaboratio
n
Formats
Guidelines
New forms
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18. Published / Publishers
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19. Publishing
• Communicative practice
• Functionalist perspective
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20. Research &
data
collection
Authoring
Writing
Peer review
Publishing
and
dissemination
Discovery
Evaluation
Tenure
Funding
Hiring
Collaboratio
n
Formats
Guidelines
New forms
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21. Research &
data
collection
Authoring
Writing
Peer review
Publishing
and
dissemination
Discovery
Libraries
Catalogues
Discovery
Preservation
Evaluation
Tenure
Funding
Hiring
Collaboratio
n
Formats
Guidelines
New forms
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22. Bringing it all together
• Scholarly publishing in periphery countries
+
• Open Access
+
• Traditional scholarly publishing process
+
• DH publishing
= Increase global participation
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23. Academia
“valid research”
Global academic
system
Publications
“valid
scholarship”
DH
New
formats
Periphery
researchers
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24. How?
• Continue to support Open Access.
• Who and what form will our publishers take?
• Assume role of publishers if we do.
• Strategic alliances with libraries
• Translation for awareness
• Be critical about digitized sources
• Sustainability issues
• Preservation issues
• Awareness
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25. Thank you!
• Isabel Galina Russell
• Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México (UNAM)
• igalina@unam.mx
• RedHD (Red de Humanidades Digitales) www.humanidadesdigitales.net
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