A public group for people interested in working through more humane indicators of excellence for the humanities and social sciences. For more about the project, please visit our website at humetricshss.org.
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Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Navigation, connection, and humanities wisdom from the Pacific in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities: Scholarship in Service to the Common Good in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities Scholarship and LGBTQIA+ Studies in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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Kath Burton deposited Not If, But How in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPart of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]
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William Hart-Davidson deposited CPIL Venn Diagram for Academic Advisors in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis version of the CPIL diagram keeps the core values (on the outside) and ends (semi-transparent circles) the same as other versions, but the ovals – the means by which the ends are achieved – are changed here to reflect the common work activities of Academic Advisors.
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities and Publication: A Working Paper in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis paper explores the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship. It is the product of a working group convened in February 2020 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis and the National Humanities Alliance to identify and discuss model practices for publishing on public and publicly engaged humanities…[Read more]
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Kath Burton started the topic Public Humanities and Publication working paper in the discussion
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoToday we are posting the first paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group: https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003800/1611561373-PublicHumanitiesandPublication_workingpaper2021.pdf
Exploring the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship, this paper is the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoHuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
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Katie Wilson deposited Global diversity in higher education staffing: Towards openness in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe adoption of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in recent decades highlights an ongoing need for structural and cultural change within higher education institutions. It also raises questions around gender, race and disability politics, the decolonisation of diversity and neoliberal management of higher…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFinal progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council’s work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.
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Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoBased on its survey responses, the California Open Educational Resources Council identified several impediments to adopting OER textbooks and concluded that rigorous peer review was ultimately the first step towards advocating for adoption of OER textbooks. The Council quickly identified 50 highly-enrolled courses with expensive textbooks across…[Read more]
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Katie Wilson deposited ‘Is the library open?’: Correlating unaffiliated access to academic libraries with open access support in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis paper explores the extent to which the ideals of ‘openness’ are being applied to physical knowledge resources and research spaces. The study investigates the relationship between academic library access policies and institutional positions on open access/open science publishing. Analysis of library access policies from twenty academic ins…[Read more]
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Cameron Neylon deposited Research excellence is a neo-colonial agenda (and what might be done about it) in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoResearch “excellence” is a central target of policy, researchers and institutions. Increasingly it is a target of criticism for the way in which it reinforces systemic biases in power, reduces diversity, and excludes many participants from the processes of scholarship. In this chapter I argue that in the context of post- colonial and tra…[Read more]
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Eva Weinmayr deposited Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice) in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoIn this chapter I investigate the coercive relationship between authorship and copyright from the perspective of intersectional feminist and de-colonial knowledge practices. Examining three artistic strategies (Richard Prince, Cady Noland and the Piracy Project) which all try to challenge the close ties between copyright and authorship – a…[Read more]
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J. Britt Holbrook deposited Balancing Act: Open Access and Academic Freedom in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPresentation delivered at ISMPP 2019.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Universities should be working for the greater good in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis is the submission (unedited) version of the article published in Times Higher Education on April 11, 2019, which argues that the market-based competition that fuels so much of academic life is doing us all far more harm than good.
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Eric Hellman deposited The Open-Factor: Toward impact-aligned measures of open-access ebook usage in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoA statistical analysis of usage data for open-access ebooks from two different publishers and from a free ebook distribution platform indicates that open-access ebook usage is distributed following log-normal statistics. Using a quantity related to the logarithm of download counts, dubbed the “open-factor”, will measure impact in better ali…[Read more]
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