Innovation in Digital Publishing | Books, Health and History

"The Innovation in Digital Publishing in the Humanities session at the American Historical Association 2015 Annual Meeting in New York is co-presented by the Wellcome Trust and The New York Academy of Medicine’s Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health. The Innovation in Digital Publishing panel will be chaired by Stephen Robertson, professor and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media at George Mason, whose Digital Harlem project has won multiple awards for innovation in digital history. We’ve asked our speakers to start the conversation early by giving their thoughts on the biggest challenge or opportunity facing digital publishing. Feel free to pose questions to the participants individually or as a group; they will respond here on the blog and take your thoughts into consideration for the panel itself. Posts will go live in batches over the coming weeks. To start the discussion, we offer two perspectives on Open Access and its implications from Cecy Marden (Wellcome Trust) and Lisa Norberg (Barnard College Library, Columbia University). We will publish thoughts from Martin Eve (University of Lincoln and Open Library of Humanities), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Modern Language Association), and Matthew K. Gold (New York City College of Technology and City University of New York, Graduate Center) over the next few weeks."