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Lost in translation? Revisiting notions of community- and scholar-led publishing in international contexts

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This cross-post has originally been published on the ScholarLed blog. Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to closely follow the work of a variety of community- and scholar-led publishing initiatives, while also becoming more deeply involved with a few of them.

Old Traditions: Scholar-Led Publishing und Open Access — Zu den Anfängen digitalen scholar-led Publishings in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 2)

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Dies ist ein re-post eines im Open-Media-Studies-Blog der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft erschienenen dreiteiligen Beitrags. «Apparently, there are academics, and reputable ones at that, for whom the cost/benefit of the Mercedes Benz — the smart cover, prestigious logo, beautiful paper, and added-value galore — is less important than the means of quick and effective conveyance, even if it be merely a rusty old heap that runs.

Pluralities: Scholar-Led Publishing und Open Access — zur Rolle von scholar-led publishing in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 1)

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Dies ist ein re-post eines im Open-Media-Studies-Blog der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft erschienenen dreiteiligen Beitrags. Publikationskulturen sind im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ähnlich vielfältig wie die ihnen zugrundeliegenden Forschungskulturen.

scholar-led initiatives: History and recent examples from Cultural and Media Studies

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H5P-Timeline “Scholar-led Initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences” by Tobias Steiner is licensed under a CC BY SA 4.0 International Licence. — A bibliography of research on scholar-led publishing is available as a dedicated Zotero collection.

Experimenting with Twitter data and Google Sheets via TAGSExplorer

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The following segments exemplify output generated by instances of TAGSExplorer, a Google Docs script that has been developed by Martin Hawksey (on Twitter: @mhawksey. Powered by d3.js, Google Spreadsheets and Google Visualization API (gVisAPI), what the tool does is basically pulling publicly-available tweet data of a given hashtag, profile or other search term from Twitter, and saving this dataset to a Google Spreadsheet.

Community-run open source tools for video, text, and code collaboration

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updated: July 08, 2023 Please feel free to leave suggestions, critical notes, etc. via hypothes.is comments (see Annotation sidebar tab on the top-right of your screen) and I’ll make sure to add these to the main text. Table of Contents BigBlueButton — video alternative for teaching, learning, collaboration in projects, etc. EduMeet — alternative for video conferencing, collaboration in projects, etc.

Teaching practices & values of Open Science and Scholarship needs open infrastructure!

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first published on the OpenScienceMOOC blog, Sept 03, 2019 doi: 10.31235/osf.io/aksxq tldr; The need to empower scholars as well as the general public to practice Open Scholarship has been a recurring theme in public scholarly discourse of the last decade and beyond. Still, the tools and platforms required to make this a reality are usually in the hands of – often US-based – for-profit companies.

What do we talk about when we talk about “Open”? On Education, Science, Research, and Open Scholarship

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Invited ignition talk at the Leibniz Research Alliance OpenScience research symposium “Open Practices IN Education (OPINE)”, November 14-15, 2019, Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Slides: Links: symposium abstracts available online on Zenodo extended bibliography, see the open library at Zotero Abstract An excellent candidate for sloganizing is the word ‘open’. Immediately one uses it, the options polarize.

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