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"""This book offers a clarion call to academia for the necessity of participating in ""the global drive toward an interconnected digital future"". Open Scholarship in the Humanities is required reading for digital humanists, chairs of humanities departments, librarians, directors of digital humanities centers, and deans of liberal arts colleges."" --Laura C. Mandell, Professor of English Literature and Founding Director of the Center of Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, USA ""Paul Longley Arthur and Lydia Hearn's Open Scholarship in the Humanities gives a concise and up-to-date history and context for open, digital practices in the humanities. A must-read for anyone new to the debate, with plenty also for old hands, Open Scholarship in the Humanities is a crucial and accessible volume for our digital, open times."" --Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK ""A compendium, state-of-the art survey and synthesis - an essential entry point, providing the broadest, strongest close-reading and analysis of current open scholarship trends in the Humanities to date."" --Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada"

This slim volume summarizes open scholarship from the late 1990s to the present, succinctly compiling the movements ... foundational to open science and ultimately to the humanities. A blueprint for building on open scholarship, it further calls for bringing the same degree of openness to the humanities as has served the sciences for decades ... It is essential reading for librarians, humanities scholars, university leaders, and policymakers. * CHOICE * This book offers a clarion call to academia for the necessity of participating in ""the global drive toward an interconnected digital future"". Open Scholarship in the Humanities is required reading for digital humanists, chairs of humanities departments, librarians, directors of digital humanities centers, and deans of liberal arts colleges. -- Laura C. Mandell, Professor of English Literature and Founding Director of the Center of Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, USA Paul Longley Arthur and Lydia Hearn's Open Scholarship in the Humanities gives a concise and up-to-date history and context for open, digital practices in the humanities. A must-read for anyone new to the debate, with plenty also for old hands, Open Scholarship in the Humanities is a crucial and accessible volume for our digital, open times. -- Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK A compendium, state-of-the art survey and synthesis – an essential entry point, providing the broadest, strongest close-reading and analysis of current open scholarship trends in the Humanities to date. * Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada *

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Paul Longley Arthur is Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He speaks and publishes widely on major challenges and changes facing 21st-century society, from the global impacts of technology on communication, culture and identity to migration and human rights. Lydia Hearn has over forty years of research experience in Australia, Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States. Much of her focus has been on open collaborative development aimed at translating policy into practice through equity and inclusion.

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