This week and next Anvil team members Lisa Spiro and Korey Jackson will be traveling to points both east and west (and then west again). Weather and flight schedules permitting, Lisa will be in Worcester, MA for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Digital Humanities & Arts Symposium (November 2-3), where she’ll be giving a keynote address…
As a way of celebrating Open Access Week, we kick off the first of our Anvil Interviews–a series of conversations with prominent scholars in digital humanities and open access publishing. In this first interview, Anvil Program Coordinator Korey Jackson talks to Jack Dougherty (Associate Professor of Education Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, CT) and Kristen…
Last week’s Twitter chat with Adeline Koh and the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker group made for a spirited and productive public conversation about the need and the place for a digital publisher’s imprimatur in the humanities. (See the Storify version of the discussion here.) It also led to some equally spirited and productive talk…
It’s launch day. And with Anvil’s new public face comes the pressing need to dig into and detail what we’re up to, what we hope to be up to shortly, and some of our longer-term goals. And how better to take account of goals that include increased scholarly openness and publicness than to do so…
Coming to the academic library as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow from the strange wilds of the English department, I’d never had a chance to fully absorb the importance of the service ethic within “libraryland.” Despite the challenges of constrained budgets and diverse strategic plans, today’s research library has one ultimate goal: the freer and more…