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Digital publishing?
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeBridging the Unbridgeable Lunch Meeting
27 August 2015
Digital publishing?
Open access? Google Books?With or without permission?
Publishing on the Internet?Online journal: HSL/SHLBlogs
• Bridging the Unbridgeable• Late Modern English Letters• Robert Lowth blog
HUGE database
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HSL/SHL
Online journal: 2000-2010 Curious experiment
Publishing on the internet?Learning a program
Peer reviewed, ISSN-number Became a laborious process Since June:
Paper journal: De Gruyter3
Blog ≠ online journal
Bridging the UnbridgeableResearch project 2011-2016Since 2011, also Facebook, Twitter
Late Modern English LettersTeaching project, since July 2012
• students blog about their research
Robert Lowth blogPrevious research project, 2005-2010
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The blog’s functions
Publishing research findingsNot our major findings
Building a researchers’ network Learning about the field
Getting feedback, quick information
Sharing information Getting data for research: Surveys
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Knowledge dissemination
HUGE databaseFreely available upon requestOur target users
• Linguists and everyone else interested• For research and linguistic advice
Submitting a new NWO projectCorrespondence database, corpus,
digital edition• Making material available for research
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Digital publishing: yes or no?
Discussion ...Increasing Open Access
• Books, articles
Knowledge dissemination (NWO)Visibility: you and your research
Blogging a good wayIn addition to regular publications!!!
And: blogging is a skill
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Blogging and science
Bloggen voor de wetenschapNWO, April 2014Robin Straaijer, José van DijkOne reaction: to my blog post
Not the way to do it Determined by contents, needs
Purpose, benefitsVisibility
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Learning to blog
Contents: starting point Form: to support the contents Style: lightly academic
Text (not too much), images, links Need for interaction: surveys (polldaddy)
Finding the blog? Under-water-screen
Help with the visibility9
Online sources
Databases: OED, ODNB, WorldCatBut ...
Who produces these tools:Status of the writer, publisher
Blogs: are they being moderated? Is Wikipedia a good source?
According to research: yesWikipedia “Talk pages” (Morana)
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Online journals? Almost daily:
New digital journals• An article? Editorial board?
Journal of Scientific Research and Reports• Open access, peer reviewed
British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science: why me?
Good English? Do they really know me? What use is it to me?
What really matters: publishing in A journals11
Impact factors
English Today’s impact factor: 0.414 English Language & Linguistics: 0.462 Historiographia Linguistica: “currently 0” Language and History: 0.2 Transactions PhilSoc: “currently 0” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development: 0.6: Well done, Robin!
Cf. Science and Nature: ca. 30
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