Beyond Books 2010 – Zeeba TV

Wulf von Lucius Lucius & Lucius Play (25min) Download: MP4 | MP3 Parallel to the licensing of content to libraries or providers like Amazon or Apple there are various platforms or service providers, which can be partners in the dissemination of contents. The paper describes the platform PaperC, a new start-up in Germany, which has developed […]

Michael Charno, Prof. Julian Richards Archaeology Data Service Play (39min) Download: MP4 | MP3 The online peer-reviewed e-journal Internet Archaeology has been publishing archaeological research on the web since 1996. Rich text and image databases allow readers to ‘drill down’ from the text and to test existing interpretations and to make new ones. Increasingly we have […]

Martha Sedgwick SAGE Play (22min) Download: MP4 | MP3 SAGE Research Methods Online is a research tool that integrates multiple book, reference and journal content types focused on an area central to the social sciences. This presentation will share results from the market research that was perforemd for this product development (due to be launched later […]

Rebecca Cullen Senior Online Product Development Manager, Oxford University Press Play (27min) Download: MP4 | MP3 The rise of online self-dissemination and new scholarly repositories has led to an increasing amount of research content bypassing traditional publishing channels. What is the role of the publisher in validating this content? A review of the forthcoming Oxford Bibliographies […]

Geraldine Billingham Editorial Director, Berg Publishers Play (24min) Download: MP4 | MP3 The term Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) covers a wide academic territory and successful publishing across these fields requires flexibility in product types, formats and pricing. While HSS and STM overlap, the differences between them are not just of degree but also of kind. […]

Alan Jarvis Global Director, Social Science Books, Routledge Play (26min) Download: MP4 | MP3 Factors in academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences, eBooks have failed to have the impact on book publishing that ejournals have had on journals. This presentation emphasises how relative diversity within books (in terms of both content and audience) has slowed […]

Sarah Phibbs Journals Publishing Director, Wiley-Blackwell Play (32min) Download: MP4 | MP3 There is an assumption in the journals publishing business that what happens first in STM will follow in social science and humanities. This presentation sets out to examine key challenges for social science and humanities in relation to scholarly communication, the differences and similarities […]

Peter Burnhill Director, EDINA, University of Edinburgh Play (50min) Download: MP4 | MP3 How should data feature in the scholarly publication process, and who should be doing what to ensure ease and continuity of access to those data that underpin statements in published work? Data drive their value as potential as evidence; being digital provides opportunity […]

Laura Brown (presented by Nancy Maron) Managing Director, Ithaka, S+R Play (30min) Download: MP4 | MP3 Are humanists and social scientists headed to the same essentially digital future for research sources, and if so, at what rate? Ithaka S+R’s most recent faculty survey provides an excellent source for understanding disciplinary practices, attitudes, and needs and how […]