Category: Scholar-in-Residence

… reading words on screen. Naomi S. Baron – a linguistics professor at American University in Washington, DC – challenges the conjecture, anecdote, and ageism that typically short-circuit the debate on the comparative advantages and effects of print versus digital reading. More…  

…the concept of Open Access (OA) and the challenges university presses face as they attempt to apply OA to humanities and social sciences monographs. Professors, post docs, grad students, and academic administrators alike have roles to play in making OA work. Read more…

…one of the most impressive research projects launched at the 2015 meeting of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa earlier this month, a prototype of a new “dynamic” form of digital book that has been developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) under the research leadership of Susan Brown of the […]

 … the responsibility of universities to create and disseminate new knowledge, and the threat of administrators’ status quo thinking to academic publishing. Read more…