Open Insights Interview

19/03/201819/03/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego

I was interviewed by the Open Library of Humanities for their Open Insights series today, part of their EmpowOA programme.

The Comics Grid Nominated for Public Engagement DH Award 2017

12/02/201812/02/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has been kindly nominated for a Digital Humanities Award 2017 in the Public Engagement category. If you like what we do, please vote for us.

Homeostasis, Privilege and the Blind Spots of Access

08/01/201809/01/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego

On 'homeostasis' and open access.

The Comics Grid: 2017 So Far

22/12/201723/12/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

It was a very busy year for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

New: Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination

27/11/201727/11/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

We have published Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case as a pre-print on figshare.

New Article: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?

14/08/201715/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

New peer reviewed, open access article, published on 13 August 2017: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? at TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society

“Access/Accès”: #DH2017, Montreal, 8-11 August 2017 Tweetage Volume Charts

08/08/201713/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

#DH2017 starts today in Montreal. I share a snapshot of tweetage so far, and share a previous post related to access to publications in DH.

#rfringe17: Top 230 Terms in Tweetage

05/08/201705/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

Repository Fringe is a gathering for repository managers and others interested in research data repositories and publication repositories. I collected an archive of #rfringe17, containing 1118 Tweet IDs. I then analysed the text of the tweets with Voyant Tools to identify most frequent terms and refined the results to 230 terms.

Questions of Access in the Digital Humanities: Data from JDSH

04/08/201710/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

I used The Altmetric Explorer to locate any articles from the Journal of Digital Scholarlship in the Humanities that had had any 'mentions' online anytime. With the Open Access Button API we tried to locate open surrogates. Some insights are shared from the data.

Scholarly Communications On Fire: What Can We Do?

03/08/201703/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

So what can we do?

Scholarly Communications On Fire

02/08/201703/08/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 2 Comments

A quick note on Elsevier announcing its acquisition of bepress.

Untangling Academic Publishing: Key Recommendations for Universities and Academics

25/05/201726/05/2017 ~ Ernesto Priego

The report 'Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research' (Fyfe et al 2017) has been published today. I share some of the key recommendations.