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On Reassembling Scholarly Communications by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray

On Reassembling Scholarly Communications by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray

Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access draws together various chapters on the current and future state of scholarly communication, especially in relation to open access and open scholarship movements. Eve and Gray have incorporated perspectives from around the globe in this collection, with an emphasis on critical approaches to open scholarship endeavours and activities. For instance, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou argues that open access can be quite detrimental in Africa, where the pressure to publish…

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On Putting the Humanities PhD to Work by Katina Rogers

On Putting the Humanities PhD to Work by Katina Rogers

In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom, Katina Rogers takes graduate training reform as her mission. She argues that current graduate training is not fit for purpose; i.e., it primarily trains PhDs to become tenured track faculty members when A) there are very limited TT faculty jobs, and B) most PhDs end up working in other roles or industries altogether. In doing so, Rogers suggests, academia replicates inequalities as a very small (generally moneyed)…

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On “Lend Me Your Ears: The Rise of the History Podcast in Australia,” by Honae Cuffe

On “Lend Me Your Ears: The Rise of the History Podcast in Australia,” by Honae Cuffe

Honae H. Cuffe examines the role of the history podcast in the Australian context. She glosses a selection of Australian history podcasts—some overtly academic, some not—and concludes that this is an important mechanism for translating historical work (and even historiography) to broader publics. Cuffe acknowledges the challenges of history podcasts in the academic context; namely, that there is pushback from those who do not consider “translation” work worthwhile or intellectually robust enough, and that it is difficult to have such…

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On “‘Is the Library Open?’: Correlating Unaffiliated Access to Academic Libraries with Open Access Support,” by Katie Wilson et al.

On “‘Is the Library Open?’: Correlating Unaffiliated Access to Academic Libraries with Open Access Support,” by Katie Wilson et al.

In this article Katie Wilson, Cameron Neylon, Chloe Brookes-Kenworthy, Richard Hosking, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Lucy Montgomery, and Alkim Ozaygen assess the “openness” of a selection of 20 universities from 15 countries by focusing on the flexibility and availability of their libraries for unaffiliated users. The authors acknowledge that open access is growing worldwide, and is evident through an increase in publishing as well as institutional policies suggesting or even mandating open access to research. However, many of these same institutions…

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