Conference: Open access publishing in the arts and humanities

A symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in association with SAS-Space

Friday, July 15th 2011
10am-4.10pm
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR

This symposium brings together academics, journal editors, publishers, librarians, funding bodies and repository practitioners to consider issues of particular concern in the arts and humanities. It will examine the economic and public policy aspects of humanities OA, as well as the different modes in which OA is currently delivered for scholars in the humanities.

Bookings for this conference are now closed. To be placed on a reserve list, please contact Dr Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk). Please include details of institution, position, and a full postal address.

Final programme

10.00 Arrivals and coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.40 The state of play: a personal view (Dr Peter Webster, SAS)

11.00 - 13.10 The context
11.00 - 11.20 The university library: Dr Paul Ayris (UCL)
11.20 - 11.40 The publisher's perspective I: Frances Pinter (Bloomsbury Academic)
11.40 - 12.00 The funder’s perspective I: Neil Jacobs (JISC)
12.00 - 12.20 The publisher's perspective II: Tessa Harvey (Wiley-Blackwell)
12.20 - 12.40 The funder’s perspective II: Professor Shearer West (AHRC)
12.40 - 13.10 Discussion

13.10-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Approaches to OA

14.00 - 14.20 The subject-specific IR: UALRO (Stephanie Meece, University of the Arts London)
14.20 - 14.40 A repository for teaching: HumBOX (Kate Borthwick)
14.40 - 15.00 The overlay journal: SAS Open Journals (Dr Peter Webster)
15.00 - 15.20 An OA publisher on campus: Ubiquity Press, UCL (Brian Hole)
15.20 - 16.00 Discussion

16.00 Closing comments
16.10 Departures

New JISC open journal project

I'm delighted to be able to announce that the JISC have very generously funded us to create an overlay journal interface for SAS-Space.

We'll be creating an overlay journal system based on SAS-Space, with Amicus Curiae as the initial example, using the open source Open Journal Systems. This system will then be made available, at minimal cost, to both other existing and new journals produced within the School, and to publications by cognate learned societies. Such a system will greatly increase open access publishing capacity in the humanities and social sciences, and further fulfil the School’s remit from HEFCE for research promotion and facilitation.

More details on the project blog.

Carmen in Paris

SAS-Space now holds a collection of reviews from the opening nights of Bizet's Carmen at the Paris Opéra Comique, part of the Francophone Music Criticism project, hosted by the Institute of Musical Research.

The collection is based on Lesley Wright's’s Georges Bizet, 'Carmen' - dossier de presse parisienne (1875), 'Critiques de l’Opéra français du XIXe siècle’ 13 (Weinsberg: Lucie Galland, 2001). It was prepared by Isabella Yeager (Smith College) under the direction of Mark Everist (University of Southampton) and was supported by a SAS Dean's Development Fund award. The directors of the network are grateful to Lesley Wright and Karl Leich-Galland for agreement to reproduce parts of this publication.

Reflecting on digital projects at SAS

SAS-Space hosts a growing collection of materials reflecting on digital projects around the School. They touch on issues such as peer review for digital resources, collaborative editing, sustainability, impact and the experience of creating online resources. See them all here

New legal scholarship from Amicus Curiae

Several items from the summer 2010 issue of Amicus Curiae, the journal of Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / Society for Advanced Legal Studies, are now live. They cover topics as diverse as war crimes trials, insurance law and the place of religious 'irrationality' in relation to the law. View the whole collection here.

The music criticism of Joseph d'Ortigue

Editions of a further 100 articles have been added to this collection, bringing the total to over 300 (around half the intended number). Joseph d'Ortigue was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging music critics in Paris during the mid-nineteenth century. He had strong views on opera, was closely involved in debates about Catholic church music, and had a keen interest in the music of the past. All these concerns come through in the latest batch of files, written for a weekly music periodical, Le ménestrel [The Minstrel] run by the Paris publishing house Heugel. View the collection in SAS-Space.

The London Stock Exchange: an oral history

New on SAS-Space is a growing collection of transcripts and recordings of interviews with stock jobbers from the Stock Exchange. The interviews were produced as part of an oral history project at the Centre for Metropolitan History (Institute of Historical Research.) See them all at the collection homepage.