Open Access 101
Open Access 101 from Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation Claire Stewart, Head of Digital Collections and Scholarly Communication Services, Josh Honn, Digital Scholarship Library Fellow, and John Blosser, Head Electronic Resources and Collection Analyst, present an introduction to open access and updates on recent developments. For more information, please email cscdc@northwestern.edu. Thursday, October 25,...
Google settles with AAP
Google and the Association of American Publishers today announced a settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by AAP. The Authors Guild has not settled with Google. Read Peter Hirtle’s blog post for more information … though there’s not much!
NU Digital Humanities Lab
The Northwestern University Digital Humanities Lab (NUDHL, pronounced noodle) kicks off this week on Friday, October 5th, from noon-2pm. Hosted by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the NUDHL research workshop will run throughout the 2012-2013 academic year and is co-convened by NU faculty members Michael Kramer and Jillana Enteen. If you’d like to participate...
Notes from the Digital Humanities Forum
Last week I was able to travel to Lawrence, KS and the University of Kansas to attend the Digital Humanities Forum, hosted by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities and the Center for Digital Scholarship. The forum included a full-day of workshops on text analysis and visualization (Voyant and Improvise), a THATCamp (where...
The Center’s New Brochure!
With the beginning of the new school year, amidst new graduate student and research resources forums throughout campus, we thought it was time for the Center take the still seemingly necessary leap into print publication. Thus, our new brochure! The brochure includes information on the Center’s location (both physical and virtual), a quick introduction to...
On losing the “digital”
If there is one message I’d like to convey in this talk, it is that the real goals of digital humanities are not that diferent from traditional humanities. The methods and tools that have become available recently are not part of standard practice in the humanities, so we need a label for them: thus, “digital”...