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.
Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
HuMetricsHSS 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.
Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
This 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]
Katie Wilson deposited Global diversity in higher education staffing: Towards openness in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The 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]
Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Final 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.
Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Based 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]
Katie Wilson deposited ‘Is the library open?’: Correlating unaffiliated access to academic libraries with open access support in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
This 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]
Cameron Neylon deposited Research excellence is a neo-colonial agenda (and what might be done about it) in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Research “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]
Eva Weinmayr deposited Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice) in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
In 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]
J. Britt Holbrook deposited Balancing Act: Open Access and Academic Freedom in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Presentation delivered at ISMPP 2019.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Universities should be working for the greater good in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This 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.
Eric Hellman deposited The Open-Factor: Toward impact-aligned measures of open-access ebook usage in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
A 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]
William Hart-Davidson deposited Values, Outcomes, & Activities of Intellectual Leadership in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
The diagram depicts the aims of an academic career that exhibits intellectual leadership: sharing knowledge, expanding opportunity, contributing to greater transparency and accelerating creativity. Intellectual leaders engage in mentorship of others, formally as instructors and informally. They also engage in stewardship of the institutional…[Read more]
J. Britt Holbrook deposited A cartography of philosophy’s engagement with society in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Should philosophy help address the problems of non-philosophers or should it be something isolated both from
other disciplines and from the lay public? This question became more than academic for philosophers working in
UK universities with the introduction of societal impact assessment in the national research evaluation exercise,
the REF.…[Read more]J. Britt Holbrook deposited The humanities do not need a replication drive in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months ago
Argues that the humanities do not need a replication drive like that being pushed for in the sciences.
Katie Wilson deposited Access to academic libraries: an indicator of openness? in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Introduction. Open access to digital research output is increasing, but academic library policies can place restrictions on public access to libraries. This paper reports on a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between academic library access policies and institutional positions of openness to knowledge. Method. This primarily…[Read more]
J. Britt Holbrook deposited Philosophy and Science Policy: A Report from the Field in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
This presentation presents a case study in philosophy and science policy surrounding Plan S and argues that we need new ways of evaluating such approaches to research.
J. Britt Holbrook deposited Incorporating Societal Impact into Academic Research in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
The 2018 International Research Conference at UC Davis focuses on:
Changing political environment and its impact on international research
Increasing importance of networks and consortia in advancing international research
Role of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research in solving global challenges
Educating the next…[Read more]J. Britt Holbrook deposited Ecce Homo Academicus — The revaluation of higher education values in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Evaluation can be seen as an opportunity for transvaluation, or what Nietzsche called the revaluation of values. However, evaluation is often treated instead as the enforcement of standards – standardization rather than transformation. When evaluation as transvaluation and evaluation as standardization are both used to evaluate the same s…[Read more]
Cameron Neylon deposited Getting the best out of data for open access monograph presses: A case study of UCL Press in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This study of UCL Press sought to identify the extent to which data available to Open Access (OA) monograph presses can be combined with low-cost analysis tools to provide insight into development and strategy. An additional goal was identifying practical steps that monograph publishers can take to ensure that they make the most of the data they…[Read more]
Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]
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