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The Latest Open Access News for the Humanities

Open Library of Humanities, propose that research in the humanities should be open and free to read and re-use, provided that authors are cited. To support this proposal they have established a team who will examine some of the key issue of open access publishing in the humanities. With the ultimate aim to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is:

Article : How does big data change the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences?

JISC News reports that the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has "issued the first public appraisal of the Digging into Data Challenge, an international grant programme first funded by JISC, the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the US National Science Foundation and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Repository of the Week : Data Archiving and Networked Services

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), based in the Netherlands, promotes "sustained access to digital research data". DANS actively encourages researchers to archive research data through the online archiving system EASY.

Repository of the Week: the Australian National Corpus

AustNatCorpus.jpgThe Australian National Corpus - AusNC - is a discovery service that collates and provides access to various examples of Australian English Text. Text is sourced from published and unpublished works, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials.

Put it in your diary

aadh.jpgThe Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is holding its inaugural conference, Digital Humanities Australasia, in Canberra from 28-30 March 2012. The call for papers, panels and posters has now been issued.

Ask them anything

Got a Digital Humanities question? They've got answers.

Rome wasn't digitised in a day

rome.jpg eResearch doesn't only happen in the sciences. It is burgeoning in the humanities as well - with giant digitisation and transcription projects, data mining and visualisations now part of the eHumanities landscape.

Data use in the humanities

humanities.jpg The traditional view of humanities scholars is of the patient worker toiling away alone in archives or on manuscripts. Has the growth and spread of digital humanities challenged that view?