📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".
'The Resistance Mapping website functions as a living, digital archive that documents the history of racist housing and other place-based policies in Rochester and the surrounding region. The materials explore how Rochester’s current segregation emerges from that history and confronts these realities through stories of past and present activism, along with creative imagined possibilities for our community’s future.'
@elmyra@mbojan@academicchatter I agree. OA advocacy therefore needs to be aimed more at the core of the academic system (funders, research establishments, universities, scholarly societies) and less at academic publishers. The latter are just picking up the money that academia keeps on throwing at their feet.
"Against the backdrop of the threat of war with Persia and an imminent Spartan invasion which resulted in the overthrow of Hippias (510 BCE), it is considered that a political transition occurred because Greece was both geologically and politically disposed to adopt this labour-intensive silver technology which helped to initiate, fund and protect the radical social experiment that became known as Classical Greece."
"In particular, I make a response to Wood’s suggestion in Archaeometry (2022, first view, ‘Other ways to examine the finances behind the birth of Classical Greece’) that the end of the production of lead votive figurines in Sparta might have been caused by Athenian restrictions to Laurion lead exports, drawing on new LIA of the Spartan lead votives and wider considerations concerning the trade, cost and volume of lead in the 7th to 5th century bce Mediterranean."
"We analyze the average sonority of basic words of nearly three-quarters of the world’s languages, and confirm a positive correlation between sonority and local temperature. Our findings suggest that lower temperatures, over the course of many centuries, lead to decreased sonority. Our research provides further evidence that climate plays a role in shaping the evolution of human languages."
Putting their money where their mouth is, the EU decides to make academic publishing open source:
"utilizing existing open-source software has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although some risks are associated with this approach, our research has identified a few mature existing solutions that could be further developed to support the future ORE platform." https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/cc087fd8-82b3-11ee-99ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
"Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance."
"The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas."
How is it possible that books entitled "Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge" or "Decolonial perspectives in international education" are protected under a prohibitive paywall for students, the community and many researchers? If you really want to decolonize knowledge, use #OpenAccess. @academicchatter#Academia#HisgherEducation@hello
@j@gonzalo@academicchatter@hello Valid point! I'm from Nigeria, and this is common among early career researchers, starters and even for some academic... if you're current to the news about the south side, you'll know the fees are much to have a publication, else, open access is the way.
We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.
@SteveMcCarty@edutooter@academicchatter@OnlineEducation Steve McCarty, It’s the tools that we have in our daily possession that allow us to have daily access to Higher Education. Ideas have not changed that much from allowing general public access to published books at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, University Repository Library Depositories, Public Broadcast System (PBS/NPR) via TV & radio, World Wide Web/Internet via personal computers & SMART phones. New tools improve general public HE access.
📖 Fernando Dores Costa has republished a paper that he presented at the French Revolution Bicentennial Congress in Coimbra in the 1980s.
Now, in the e-Journal of Portuguese History, he revisits that research on the role of Mouzinho da Silveira in the abolition of "feudalism" in Portugal.
CORRECTION: this is not a republication, but rather a new version of the study, with added research in relation to the initial work, which was indeed first presented in the 1980s.
'#eDiasporas are networks driven by human agency, referring to communities of individuals who maintain connections with their home countries and diasporic fellows through digital tools.'
How do they affect e-#diasporas (networks of human-driven agency), either hindering or exacerbating the impacts of #HyperconnectedDiasporas (networks of data-driven activities)?