Digital publishing? Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Bridging the Unbridgeable Lunch Meeting 27 August 2015
Digital publishing? Open access? Google Books? With or without permission? Publishing on the Internet? Online journal: HSL/SHL Blogs Bridging the Unbridgeable Late Modern English Letters Robert Lowth blog HUGE database 2
HSL/SHL Online journal: Curious experiment Publishing on the internet? Learning a program Peer reviewed, ISSN-number Became a laborious process Since June: Paper journal: De Gruyter 3
Blog ≠ online journal Bridging the Unbridgeable Research project Since 2011, also Facebook, Twitter Late Modern English Letters Teaching project, since July 2012 students blog about their research Robert Lowth blog Previous research project,
The blog’s functions Publishing research findings Not our major findings Building a researchers’ network Learning about the field Getting feedback, quick information Sharing information Getting data for research: Surveys 5
Knowledge dissemination HUGE database Freely available upon request Our target users Linguists and everyone else interested For research and linguistic advice Submitting a new NWO project Correspondence database, corpus, digital edition Making material available for research 6
Digital publishing: yes or no? Discussion... Increasing Open Access Books, articles Knowledge dissemination (NWO) Visibility: you and your research Blogging a good way In addition to regular publications!!! And: blogging is a skill 7
Blogging and science Bloggen voor de wetenschap NWO, April 2014 Robin Straaijer, José van Dijk Robin Straaijer One reaction: to my blog post Not the way to do it Determined by contents, needs Purpose, benefits Visibility 8
Learning to blog Contents: starting point Form: to support the contents Style: lightly academic Text (not too much), images, links Need for interaction: surveys (polldaddy) Finding the blog? Under-water-screen Help with the visibility 9
Online sources Databases: OED, ODNB, WorldCatWorldCat But... Who produces these tools: Status of the writer, publisher Blogs: are they being moderated? Is Wikipedia a good source? According to research: yes Wikipedia “Talk pages” (Morana) 10
Online journals? Almost daily: New digital journals An article? Editorial board? Journal of Scientific Research and Reports Open access, peer reviewed British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science: why me? Good English? Do they really know me? What use is it to me? What really matters: publishing in A journals 11
Impact factors English Today’s impact factor: English Language & Linguistics: Historiographia Linguistica: “currently 0” Language and History: 0.2 Transactions PhilSoc: “currently 0” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: 0.6: Well done, Robin! Cf. Science and Nature: ca