Open Access and Creative Commons Licenses

If it’s online, is it “open access”?

• Some information about open access journals from the GMU library
• Creative Commons Licenses:

Check these publications–are they open access?

• Commonplace, http://common-place.org/
• British Art Studies, http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2
• Public Philosophy Journal, http://publicphilosophyjournal.org/
• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/

New Initiatives in Scholarly Publishing:

• Mellon-funded collaboration scholarly publishing
• Examples: Stanford,  Nicholas Bauch, Enchanting the Desert, Stanford University Press, 2016 http://www.enchantingthedesert.com/home/
• University of Minnesota- CUNY GC, Manifold, platform for Debates: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

New Modes of Peer Review:

• Post-production project reviews |
• Open peer review  (Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy) | Open and public peer review (Writing History in the Digital Age )

Disciplinary Guidelines for Building and Reviewing Digital Projects:

• MLA: Guidelines for Authors of Digital Resources
• Journal of American History, Digital project review guidelines

Measuring Impact

• Alt-metrics: https://www.altmetric.com/  (quantative)
• Hu-Metrics initiative: http://humetricshss.org/ (qualitative, value-driven)