Now Receiving Full-Text Submissions. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: Call for Papers 2019-2020

he Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is open for submissions once again. I have published our Call for Papers 2019-2020 in the Humanities Commons CORE repository.

Oligopolies of Knowledge, {Digital Humanities} and Open Access: Looking at Scopus from the Global South… [form the North]

Video and slides from my DH2019 presentation, DH2019 Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 July 2019.

Spring has sprung: The Comics Grid Volume 9 (2019) so far

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has now closed for submissions until 1st November 2019. Here you will find a listing of the articles published so far in Volume 9 (2019).

El extraño caso de los archivos reaparecidos / The Strange Case of the Reappeared Archives: Carta Abierta/Open Letter: Periódico de Poesía 2007-2018

The undersigned request UNAM makes the complete archive of Periódico de Poesía (including all the issues published between 2007 and 2018, which are currently missing) openly available to the public again.

Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences

Convegno di studi: Ricerca scientifica, monopoli della conoscenza e Digital Humanities – Rome

I will be doing an express trip to Rome on Wednesday 24th October 2018 to participate in this event discussing oligopolies of knowledge production.

Documentary Film Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)

We invite you to a free and public screening of the documentary film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (dir. and prod. Jason Schmitt, 2018) at City, University of London, on Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 17:30.

On Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier, a scholarly publisher and data analytics provider, has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe. You are invited to consider signing it too.