{"id":11625,"date":"2014-11-29T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2014-11-29T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T14:41:47","slug":"open-access-and-the-humanities-contexts-controversies-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/open-access-and-the-humanities-contexts-controversies-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ebooks.cambridge.org\/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781316161012\">Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future<\/a><\/em> is now available from Cambridge University Press, including a free online version as PDF chapters.  It seems a usefully comprehensive and dense primer on the subject.  But fairly short, at 150 pages for the chapters.  Chapters open in a PDF viewer in the browser, but if you use Internet Explorer it should ignore the javascript obfuscation and offer to let you download as a PDF file.<\/p>\n<p>However it doesn&#8217;t seem to be a book to go to for an in-depth discussion of public discoverability and search.  There is some slight discussion of discoverability on page 53, briefly suggesting that if the academy wishes to make a believable claim to act as an agent of social change, then it must pass its public-funded knowledge to all rather than allow it to be hoarded by a tiny elite.  Page 101 discusses the adoption (or not) of text mining, briefly mentioning the discoverability experiments that text mining might enable. <\/p>\n<p>Page 118 suggests that a curated monograph range at a publisher inherently contains a discoverability aspect (so long as the publisher&#8217;s publicist is doing their job assiduously, I&#8217;d add).  If such a publisher also offers a &#8216;digital-first&#8217; work-flow for monographs then an easy conversion to a mainstream .ePub or .mobi ebook is enabled, again adding discoverability potential (when the book pops on the Amazon Kindle store and suchlike, and\/or in Open Access aggregators). In the Kindle Store discoverability shades over into readability, via the convenience of reading on dedicated ereaders rather than struggling with reading a PDF on a small tablet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new book Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future is now available from Cambridge University Press, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/11\/29\/open-access-and-the-humanities-contexts-controversies-and-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-of-open-access","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}