1. Publishing in the
Digital Humanities
Rafia Mirza
rmirza@smu.edu
Humanities Research Librarian
Pam Pagels
ppagels@smu.edu
Music andTheatre Librarian
2. Overview for today
• Traditional publishing in your field
• Or specific digital humanities (DH) journals
• Or nontraditional publishing
• How to find a match
3. What is publishing to you?
• So, what is it to you?
• Goals
• Audience
• Discoverability
• Intellectual property and copyright
4. What is Digital Humanities to you?
• Constraints? Requirements?
• How does that affect scholarship
• Formats and multiple outputs?
• How does collaboration affect authorship?
• Recommended Resources:
• How did they make that?
• How DidThey MakeThat?TheVideo!
5. What is Digital Humanities publishing to you?
• Many scholars who develop digital humanities projects also create more
traditional forms of scholarship (e.g. papers) based on their project.While some
projects yield discoveries that are suitable for publication in a journal specific to
your field, digital humanities journals provide a place to publish work that
addresses broader issues such as methodology, technical approach, and/or
project development and evaluation. – Digital Humanities at Berkeley
6. Collaboration
• Who is collaborating?
• Content of the project itself
• Technical infrastructure and expertise
• Administrative
• Others
• Note: different disciplines care
about different things.
Image by yosuke muroya underCC BY NC license
8. Goal:Traditional Publications/Journals
• How do you find the right journal for you?
• What are your major disciplinary databases?
• Does that database have journal information?
•UpcomingWorkshop: Searching for Author Impact
9. EvaluatingTraditional Publications
• How to evaluate ?
• Publisher
• Editorial board
• Curated lists, Whitelists, Blacklists
• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
10. Evaluating Publications, cont.
• Authors’ rights
•Preprints
•Derivative use
•SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
11. Curated lists
• Berkeley : Digital humanities journals
• ADHO list
• University of MI: Open Access Music Journals
13. Please take this this survey!
•https://tinyurl.com/smulibraryworkshops
Upcoming workshops
•Getting Ready to Publish
•KnowYour Author's Rights
•Searching for Author Impact
Editor's Notes
Rafia
Here’s what we’ll be covering today: diff ways of publishing including non-trad.
--trad in your field vs. specific DH journals
--plus non-trad
How to find publications/outlets that are a good fit with your product/output/project.
Rafia
3-4 responses,
Tenure requirements, but DH publishing often additive can be article or blog
Share
b. For what audience? Academic, commercial, specialist,
c. Things to consider
1. Preparing the text; authorship/joint authorship; proofing; house style
Discoverability: paywalls/ oa
Pam-Intellectual property and copyright
2. Copyright (your own); permissions for others’ copyrighted content
See OUP for example: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/access_purchase/rights_and_permissions
. Fees? (OA green, excess pages, color)
Rafia
What is DH to you? Ask audience, limit to 3 or 4 responses.
How do constraints and specific requirements of DH affect scholarship and output?
Format: Publishing an app or code ?
How does that go in your portfolio?
Establish Quick Definitions of: DH & publishing for purposes of workshop
(do not spend too much time on copyright, as that is separate workshop: mention)
Unless unicorn , need partner
USUALLY Collaborative process? But if you need to be single author, or do not care about being author, just code or sharing
maybe multiple publications (website, code, paper, monograph)
(Also talk about infrastructure in addition to content/thesis: long term planning : workshops on project planning in the FUTURE)
Rafia
What is DH to you? Ask audience, limit to 3 or 4 responses.
How do constraints and specific requirements of DH affect scholarship and output?
Format: Publishing an app or code ?
How does that go in your portfolio?
Establish Quick Definitions of: DH & publishing for purposes of workshop
(do not spend too much time on copyright, as that is separate workshop: mention)
Unless unicorn , need partner
USUALLY Collaborative process? But if you need to be single author, or do not care about being author, just code or sharing
maybe multiple publications (website, code, paper, monograph)
(Also talk about infrastructure in addition to content/thesis: long term planning : workshops on project planning in the FUTURE)
Pam
Are you a unicorn who can magically run an entire DH project? Answer: No. You are not a unicorn. You probably will be involved in collaboration.
Collaboration—lots of ways-
Content creation—you, your colleagues (departmental colleagues; interdisciplinary colleagues; outside of campus, ets)
Technical infrastructure/expertise—servers; website design; programing/coding; digital asset management and long term planning
Administrative—across academic divisions; finance, marketing;
Others—IRB office; intellectual property/copyright expertise; partner institutions
joint authorship and copyright.
Rafia: Different disciplines care about different things –examples:
USUALLY Collaborative process? But if you need to be single author, or do not care about being author, just code or sharing maybe multiple publications (website, code, paper, monograph)
Rafia
Publishing goal: Computer scientist : maybe github enough
Discuss what are your goals?
What Criteria for selecting a publication?
Rafia
Focus on identifying traditional publications/Journals that feature DH:
Journal in your field that feature DH
Field and subfield
Go to major disciplinary databases and find which journals indexed heavily feature DH
If you are lucky, like MLA has periodical directory. Historical Abstracts does not, so need to go to Journal Home page.
Rafia – lead into mla
Whitelists and blacklist
Use Michigan site https://www.lib.umich.edu/music-library/open-access-music-journals
because Libraries are awesome
(ties into Berkeley later)
Tools and strategies a. Assessing legit vs. predatory journals-- Ulrichsweb.com, DOAJ, oaspa.org, Declan Butler’s checklist (http://www.nature.com/news/investigating-journals-the-dark-side-of-publishing-1.12666 ), Sherpa RoMEO
b. How to evaluate impact factor-PLOS and SPARC (ALM)
c. Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities (Educational set)
Pam
f. Authors rights—agreements and licensing (what to look for before signing)
g. Open Access http://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=115588&p=754380
Focus on identifying traditional publications/Journals that feature DH:
DH journals
How to identify
Mostly OA, as ethos of DH
http://digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/resources/digital-humanities-journals
As group , pull up main page of journal
Bring up a journal http://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/about/editorialTeam
https://www.lib.umich.edu/music-library/open-access-music-journals