Thursday, 27 February 2014

Making it Free, Making it Open - Transcribe Bentham, publications, and unexpected benefits

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A few years ago I made a commitment to Open Access - in an attempt to reach a wider audience for my academic work , and to tell people about...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Male, Mad and Muddleheaded: Academics in Children's Picture Books

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Academics in children's picture books tend to be elderly, old men, who work in science, called Professor SomethingDumb. Why does this m...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

I'm not going to edit your £10,000 pay-to-open-access-publish monograph series for you

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Over the last three or four months, I’ve been talking with an academic publisher – one of the big names that most people have heard of – who...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

For Ada Lovelace Day – Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives

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15th October 2013 is Ada Lovelace Day – the annual celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, named after Ada Love...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Digital Humanities in works of literature?

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This post finds me jetlagged and happily worn out after my trip over the pond to the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference in Saska...
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Monday, 27 May 2013

On Changing the Rules of Digital Humanities from the Inside

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There has been a lot of talk recently about how my field – Digital Humanities – has to change. We are too insular. We’re excluding those who...
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Sunday, 26 May 2013

On Throwing Your Klout Around

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I am @melissaterras . I have just shy of 4500 followers on twitter, a blog which garnered 100,000 readers last year, and a current Klout s...
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