Open Access eBook | New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift | edited by Péter Dávidházi

Open Access eBook

New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift

edited by Péter Dávidházi. Amsterdam University Press, 2014, 212 pages, € 79.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9789089645647.

Abstract: The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike - represent the most dramatic paradigm shift in scholarly communications in centuries. This volume brings together leading scholars from across the humanities to explore that transformation and consider the challenges and opportunities it brings.

Table of Contents

Exploring Paradigms and Ourselves | Péter Dávidházi

The Digital Enterprise: Views Philosophical, Historical and Personal 

Digital Humanities Foundations | Jacques Dubucs

Looking Forwards, Not Back: Some Ideas on the Future of Electronic Publications | Gudrun Gersmann

The Dynamics of Digital Publications: An Exploration of Digital Lexicography | Claudine Moulin and Julianne Nyhan

Too Much of a Good Thing? Or, A Historian Swamped by the Web | Luca Codignola

Changing Models for Textual Editing in Electronic Publication

Electronic Textual Criticism: A Challenge to the Editor and to the Publisher | Gábor Kecskeméti

Computer-assisted Scholarly Editing of Manuscript Sources | Andrea Bozzi

Electronic Media and Changing Methods in Classics | Bernhard Palme

Cutting Edge: New Means of Access, Evaluation and Funding

Publication Practices in Motion: The Benefits of Open Access Publishing for the Humanities | Janneke Adema and Eelco Ferwerda

The Future of Publications in the Humanities: Possible Impacts of Research Assessment | Milena Žic Fuchs

ERIH's Role in the Evaluation of Research Achievements in the Humanities | Ferenc Kiefer

Performing Excellence in the Humanities: The Funding Initiative 'Opus Magnum' of the VolkswagenStiftung | Vera Szöllösi-Brenig

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Call for Book Chapters: Rebooting Public Libraries for the 21st Century to Recreate the Future

Call for Book Chapters

Rebooting Public Libraries for the 21st Century to Recreate the Future

Editors
Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor (Stage-II), Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta
Dr. Pubalika Bhattacharya Maitra, Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta

Warm Greetings!
With pleasure, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta invites you to contribute a high quality research paper with meaningful insights both in Indian as well as global context to an edited volume with ISBN.

Objectives of the Book
Public libraries are called people's university. It's a metaphoric and idealistic attribution attached to public libraries. Growth of public libraries from the Pre-British India to modern India has been a fragmented one. Need of life-long learning was felt by our socio-cultural ancestors and their dream of an independent India was in fact first weaved in public libraries. It would not be exaggerating if we say today's modern India is the resultant of that vision. After a long struggle we have got our precious Independence. But unfortunately after independence, what our great leaders envisioned public libraries as a platform for the holistic development of the society has been gradually eroded and reduced as a vestigial organ to the society. It is the hard truth we all know it. Sometimes too much romanticizing proves to be detrimental. Public libraries are not exception. With the inception of computers and internet the whole arena of learning and reading has been changed forever and the organic connection between public libraries and the society has been damaged severely. They have lost societal relevance. With all these in the backdrop, we want to debate and seek to investigate the reasons for present shambles and the path to recreate our future. We strongly believe that fully updated public libraries are still socially relevant and have the power to drive a sustainable social change.

Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following

• Category I: Design for people

• Romanticism Vs Reality
• User or Patron
• Fantasy Vs Need
• Touching All Layers of the Society
• People's University an Exaggerated Connotation  
• Unfamiliarity Vs Librarian
• Paper Vs Pixels
• Reconnect the People

• Category II: Unified Vision

• Changing Stakeholders Expectation and Need in Changing Time
• Refocusing the Vision for the 21st century
• Reinventing and Reframing the Mission

• Category III: Envisioning the Future

• Embedded with Academic and Special Library
• Recreate the Future
• Transformation and Leadership to Herald a Better Tomorrow
• Future Long Overdue
• Innovation and Searching for Socially Relevant Future
• Brand New Ideation to Reweave the Future
• Investigate to Explore a sustainable future

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: October 30, 2016
• Decision after Review on Selection or clarification: November 30, 2016-December 15, 2016
• Full Papers Due after Revision: January 15, 2017

This publication is anticipated to be released in February–March 2017. Send your Inquiries and Submission of soft copy of your paper to plsemcu@gmail.com.


Thanks & Regards,

Sabuj
Dr.Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor (Senior), University of Calcutta, Department of Library & Information Science, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal, India
Cell: +91-9434457215
email: sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ; sabujkchaudhuri@gmail.com ; sabuj_c@yahoo.co.uk
Web site: http://sabujkc.webs.com  Skype: sabooj_c

Call for Book Chapters: Cross-Cutting Research in Social Sciences for an Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Society

Call for Book Chapters

Cross-Cutting Research in Social Sciences for an Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Society

Editors
Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor (Stage-II), Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta, India
Dr. Pubalika Bhattacharya Maitra, Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta, India

Warm Greetings!
With pleasure, faculty members, researchers and practitioners are invited by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, University of Calcutta to submit, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter to an edited volume with ISBN.

Objectives of the Book
Society is fluid. Sometimes it is quasi-fluid. Sometimes it is rigid in a given framework of emerging changes. Changing world is an undeniable fact. We have to embrace the incoming changes putting our universal value system in right place. The world particularly before internet and after is simply different. These differences are quite significantly reflected in our societies and its actions. Over the years, kind of haves and have-nots have been multiplied, widened and radically gave rise to many societies in a society. Scientists envisioned that the power of human mind, claim to be the most intelligent in animal kingdom will influence and channelize the changes for a better tomorrow but we find otherwise. In fact we have been influenced by the technology that clouded our mind with reduced creativity and innovative ideas to engineer the societal changes. It touches all the disciplines and sub-disciplines. In this trajectory cross-cutting multidisciplinary researches can show us the light can guide us towards the right path in a changing world. In fact, these researches are the prerequisites to build a resilient society.

Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following

• Interdisciplinary Research with societal relevance
• Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing
• Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
• Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy
• Smart, Green Way of Life & society
• Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
• Changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
• Secure societies – Protecting freedom

Important Dates

• Chapter Proposals Submission Deadline: November 30, 2016
• Full Chapters Due after Revision: 30th January, 2017
• Decision after Review on Selection or clarification: December 30, 2016
• This publication is anticipated to be released in March-April 2017. Send your Inquiries and Submission of soft copy of your paper to stc_cuhrdc@yahoo.com.

Thanks & Regards,

Sabuj

(Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri)
Assistant Professor (Senior), University of Calcutta, Department of Library & Information Science, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal, India
Cell: +91-9434457215
email: sabooj_c@yahoo.co.in ; sabujkchaudhuri@gmail.com ; sabuj_c@yahoo.co.uk
Web site: http://sabujkc.webs.com  Skype: sabooj_c

Call for Papers: Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy

Call for Papers: Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy

www.ajip.org

2nd Christopher Freeman Lecture | Intellectual Property Rights through the Lenses of a Discourse on Development| by Prof Amit S. Ray| 14 September| at JNU, India

Second Annual Christopher Freeman Lecture

 "Intellectual Property Rights through the Lenses of a Discourse on Development"

                                                                            

by

Professor Amit S. Ray

 
Date: 14^th September, 2016

     Time: 3:00pm

Venue: Committee Room, School of Social Science-I, JNU, New Delhi

All are cordially Invited.

Tapmi-Max Planck Winter School on Bounded Rationality | 9-15 January 2017 | Manipal, Karnataka, India

Tapmi-Max Planck Winter School on Bounded Rationality

January 09–15, 2017, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Call for Applications

T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) is pleased to announce the Winter School on Bounded Rationality at TAPMI, Manipal (Karnataka), India to be held from January 09–15, 2017.

The winter school aims to foster understanding the process and quality of human decisions and to apply this knowledge in the real decision-contexts, enabling people to make better decisions in a complex world. To this end, it offers a unique forum for decision-making scholars and researchers from various disciplines to share their approaches, discuss their research and applications, and inspire one another.

Keynote Address: Prof. (Dr.) Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.

 

Topics

The winter school shall focus on diverse set of topics:

•  Bounded Rationality, Ecological Rationality, Social Rationality
•  Behavioral Economics and Finance
•  Heuristics
•  Fast and Frugal Trees
•  Risk and Risk Literacy
•  Medical Decision Making

Seminars, talks, panel discussions, workshops, poster sessions, and social events will take place, allowing participants to learn and develop new ideas in broad areas of Judgment and Decision Making, facilitated by frequent interactions with the teaching faculty members.

Application

Deadline for Application is September 25, 2016

Participation will be free, accommodation will be provided, and travel expenses will be partly reimbursed. For more details on application and other information: http://www.tapmiwinterschool.com . For further questions email us at winterschool@tapmi.edu.in. We look forward to seeing you at Manipal!

Sincerely,

Kavitha Ranganathan (TAPMI) and Shengua Luan (MPIB), Organizers

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Call for Participation: CyFy2016: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance | 28-30 September, New Delhi

Call for Participation

CyFy2016: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance

September 28 to 30, 2016

New Delhi, India

Hello and greetings from New Delhi!

I'm writing to announce CyFy: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance — a platform we created four years ago. This edition of CyFy will take place from September 28 to 30, 2016. We would be delighted to host you and believe that the conversation will be enriched by your presence. 

This year, we are hosting national cyber coordinators from over 10 countries (US, Germany, Russia, China, France, India, EU et al) and over 100 speakers and policymakers from nearly 35 countries.

Besides engaging with crucial global questions around managing the digital realm, we will also have focused sessions on digital access and opportunity in Asia and Africa.

The conference flyer that describes in greater detail the five pillars that will be the focus of the conversation at CyFy 2016: digital economy, international cooperation, security, access and inclusion, and capacity building can be accessed here: http://goo.gl/3gsAEk

We have a few travel grants available to support participation of the promising cyber scholars in emerging and developing economies. If you have any questions about the conference please write to me at cyfy@orfonline.org. 

Details regarding event registration can be found at http://cyfy.org/event-registration-form/

Warmly,

Samir Saran, PhD

Founding Chair,

CyFy: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance

Sr. Fellow and Vice President

Observer Research Foundation

20 Rouse Avenue, New Delhi - 110002

E: ssaran[@]orfonline.org | www.orfonline.org

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