Budapest, Hungary, 27-28 November 2009
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The HUM (formerly SCH) strategic workshop hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and initiated by HUM (formerly SCH) ex-member Peter Dávidházi (HU) focused on the following topics:
(1) Monographs as an endangered species in the humanities,
(2) The new horizon of electronic publications,
(3) The changing role of publications in new career models,
(4) Publications and the problems of "lesser used" languages.
Overview of Topics
As a general overview, the papers and the lively discussion at the workshop could be summarised under the following points:
1. Characteristics of publications in the Humanities
2. Factors of Change in Publication Cultures in the Humanities
3. Role of Young Researchers in the current transition phase
In particular, as highlighted in the press release that appeared in December 2009 on the HAS website, the following issues were treated extensively:
- Evaluation and assessment systems for research outcomes
- Lingua franca and national languages
- Print and digital publications/resources
- ERIH
- Monographs in the Humanities
Proceedings of the workshop will be published in due time and include contributions from the Humanities Spring 2011 event.
Keynote lecture I
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
Croatia | Milena Žic Fuchs University of Zagreb | "The futur of publications in the Humanities: From the perspective of evaluation" |
Session 1 - The new horizon of electronic publications
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
France | Jacques Dubucs Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche | "Humanities, Human Sciences and Digitalization" | |
Hungary | István Kenesei Hungarian Academy of Sciences | "E-Reference Database for the Humanities" | |
The Netherlands | Eelco Ferwerda OAPEN | "Open access publishing in European networks" | |
Italy | Luca Codignola University of Genoa | "Too much of a good thing, or being swamped by the web: A historian's ordeal" |
Session 2 - Monographs as an endangered species in the Humanities
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
UK | Sarah Stanton Cambridge University Press | "The academic monograph - survival of the fittest or an endangered species?" | PDF slides PDF comments |
Switzerland | Ulrike Landfester University of St. Gallen | "Open access cultures: The monograph problem" | |
Germany | Vera Szöllösi-Brenig Volkswagen Stiftung | "Performing excellence in the Humanities: The funding initiative 'opus magnum' of the Volkswagen Stiftung" | |
UK | Naomi Segal University of London | "Academic publishing at academic institutions: New solutions to an old problem" | |
Poland | Wlodzimierz Bolecki The Polish Academy of Sciences and Humanities | "Humanities Monograph Series of the Foundation for Polish Science" |
Keynote lecture II
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
Hungary | Ferenc Kiefer ERIH Steering Committee, ESF | "ERIH's role in the evaluation of research achievements in the Humanities" |
Session 3 - Publications and the problems of "lesser used" languages
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
Sweden | Maria Ågren University of Uppsala | "Arguments for and against the increasing use of English in the Humanities" | |
Bulgaria | Svetlina Nikolova Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | "On the use of 'lingua franca' and local languages in the publications of the Humanities" | |
The Netherlands | Rüdiger Klein ALLEA | "The European Academies as acadmic publishers" |
Session 4 - The changing rational of editing in electronic publications
Country | Presenter / Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
Belgium | Edward Vanhoutte Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Marilyn Deegan King's College London | "Electronic publication and the future of scholarship: The editor's perspective" | |
Hungary | Gábor Kecskeméti Universitas Press | "Electronic textual criticism: A challenge to the editor and to the publisher" | |
Austria | Bernhard Palme University of Vienna & National Library | "Electronic media and changing methods in classics" | |
Italy | Andrea Bozzi Institute for Computational Linguistics, CNR | "Computer-assisted scholarly editing of manuscript sources: Some experiments on old documents using PKT (Pinakes Text)" | |
Germany Italy | Claudine Moulin University of Trier Georg Schelbert Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute Rome | "The dynamics of digital publications: texts, images and artefacts" |
New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift
The volume, published by Amsterdam University Press and edited by Peter Dávidházi is the starting point of a series on publication cultures and is the outcome of the strategic workshop.
The volume brings together leading scholars from across the humanities to explore the transformation in recent years of scholarly publishing - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike - and consider the challenges and opportunities it brings.
