Stolz und Vorurteil – Digitale Redaktion
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Summary:
Google English: "Humanities and Open Access in a decade perspectivia.net
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in a wife."--Jane Austen
# 1 With these words Jane Austen opens her famous novel "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), a scene of the struggle between self-determination and social norms. "Pride and Advantage" is thus a treasure trove for analogies to digital open access publishing in the humanities, which is far from exhausted here. However, like the Bennet sisters 'search for a suitable constellation for a marriage, the researchers' search for a suitable format for publication also has to be commensurate with both the figure and its rank.
The novel provided the leitmotif for a lecture by Katrin Neumann at the Munich Digital Humanities Summer School 2017 : "Open Access: Pride and Prejudice in a Decade perspectivia.net" - on which this article is based. ..."