Toby Steiner · @flavoursofopen
493 followers · 372 posts · Server hcommons.social

Skimming through a very recent report on the current state of - and kind of worried that we're still, in this year of 2023, doing the old capitalist playbook of preaching consolidation, consolidation, consolidation ... and transformative agreements.

Is it really so hard to acknowledge other forms that try to do things differently?

Like, no mention whatsoever of alternative forms of organisation that don't just merely focus on competition and / or cost reduction ... 😩

It's not as if we didn't have key non-profits / not-for-profits working in the sector, right?

#ScholCom #infrastructure #Ithaka #scalingsmall

Last updated 1 year ago

The @DHd data steward Patrick Helling @helling_patrick gave a splendid talk about the process of the book of abstracts and received Goodies from the local organisers of for the work done. as
➑️ Check out the and the individual abstracts on the community zenodo.org/communities/dh2023g

#publication #DH2023 #fair #publications #researchdata #ScholCom #boa #ADHO #zenodo

Last updated 1 year ago

John Edward Martin · @PassableGhost
51 followers · 64 posts · Server hcommons.social

Most liberal arts faculty will agree with the main points here, but too many still resist the following:

"Liberal arts professors must also be willing to leave their crumbling ivory towers and the parochial debates about their own career path, in order to engage directly in public life. Expectations for hiring, tenure and promotion at colleges should shift, rebalancing away from a narrow focus on research produced almost entirely for other academics."

Keeping scholarly monographs and prestige journal articles as the gold (or sometimes only) standard for tenure or promotion just plays into the hands of those who argue that the humanities have become irrelevant. This is not the way.

nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion

#highered #ScholCom

Last updated 2 years ago

John Edward Martin · @PassableGhost
24 followers · 19 posts · Server hcommons.social

As for an :

I am the Director of Scholarly Communication at the University of North Texas Libraries, with particular interests in open scholarship, library publishing, values-enacted scholarly metrics, alternate peer review models, digital scholarship, and scholarly communication education.

I hold a PhD in American literature from Northwestern University and an MLS from the University of North Texas. My scholarly interests include horror fiction and film, American poetry, comics studies, and literary pedagogy.

I am the Book Review Editor for the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Co-Editor of Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, and a board member of the Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative (dcsco-op.org/).

#AltAcademia #ComicsStudies #horror #libraries #ScholCom #introduction

Last updated 2 years ago

John Edward Martin · @PassableGhost
24 followers · 19 posts · Server hcommons.social

Well, here I am! My first Mastodon profile. 🐘

I'm just getting started here, so not much content just yet, but looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues away from the madness of other social hell-sites.

I'll be sharing and following things on a variety of personal and professional interests, including , , , , and .

#AltAcademia #horror #ComicsStudies #libraries #ScholCom

Last updated 2 years ago