#alt-ac: Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars is set to be published online, in open-access format. It’ll be edited by Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute. The book will feature…

“contributions by and for people with deep training and experience in the humanities, who are working or are seeking employment — off the tenure track — within universities and colleges, or in allied knowledge and cultural heritage institutions such as museums, libraries, academic presses, historical societies, and governmental humanities organizations.”

So not that alternative, then. I suspect that a great many arts and humanities people in the UK — both in teaching and publishing — will have to look much further afield than ‘the usual suspects’ if they hope to gain employment over the next few years.