Skimming through a very recent report on the current state of #scholcom #infrastructure - 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? #Ithaka

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

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

The @DHd data steward Patrick Helling @helling_patrick gave a splendid talk about the #publication process of the book of abstracts and received Goodies from the local organisers of #dh2023 for the work done. #fair #publications as #researchdata #ScholCom
➡️ Check out the #boa and the individual abstracts on the #adho #dh2023 #zenodo community https://zenodo.org/communities/dh2023graz/?page=1&size=20

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.

#HigherEd #ScholCom

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/humanities-liberal-arts-policy-higher-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

As for an #introduction:

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. #scholcom #libraries

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. #horror #comicsstudies

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 (https://dcsco-op.org/). #altacademia

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 #ScholCom, #Libraries, #ComicsStudies, #Horror, and #AltAcademia .