Project Aims to Bring PLoS-Style Openness to the Humanities - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Summary:

"Open access isn't just for scientists. Opening up research is an idea that appeals to more and more humanists and social scientists. The trick has been how those fields can support the open sharing of research. Several recent publishing ventures and platforms, including the Open Humanities Press and Anvil Academic, are investigating how to bring more open-access journals and monographs online. A brand-spanking-new nonprofit organization, called the Open Library of Humanities, aims to create a humanities-and-social-sciences version of the successful Public Library of Science, or PLoS, which in the past decade has established itself as a major presence in open-access, peer-reviewed scientific publishing. Like PLoS, the Open Library of Humanities, or OLH, will be peer-reviewed…Right now, the Open Library of Humanities is mostly a dream and a Web site, which went live only a week ago. 'At this moment, we're a project,' Ms. Edwards says. 'We've got a loose organizational structure.' But an advisory committees has filled up quickly with an impressive roster of well-established academics…The group is in serious talks with foundations to line up money—somewhere in the neighborhood of $1-million to $1.5-million, they hope—to build and sustain the Web platform they'll need, hire a staff, and work out the details, starting this summer…As for how the platform might function, he [Tim McCormick] points out that there's an accumulated wealth of open-access publishing precedent to learn from. The OLH team has been talking informally with PLoS, drawing on its knowledge and experience…'One thing we want to do is to tap into the wish people have to do something new and better, not just fix a problem.'"

Link:

http://chronicle.com/article/Project-Aims-to-Bring/136889/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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Date tagged:

01/29/2013, 08:55

Date published:

01/29/2013, 03:55