Lightning Talk
Korey Jackson
Anvil Academic
Biography
Korey Jackson is currently the Program Coordinator and Analyst at Anvil Academic, a non-profit, open access publisher of digital humanities scholarship. Prior to this, he was a Council on Library and Information Resources Fellow at the University of Michigan’s MPublishing, a Press-Library collaboration designed to rethink (and rewrite) the future of scholarly publishing.
Abstract
Building on the conversations about scholarly communication reform coming out of HASTAC 2011, this presentation will introduce Anvil Academic, a new joint initiative of the Council for Library and Information Resources and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Anvil aims to address current challenges in academic publishing by applying the timehonored editorial and peer review practices of traditional publishing to the emerging world of digitally mediated humanities scholarship. Anvil will focus on four key (and often overlapping) genres: data driven projects that explore patterns in rich digital collections of humanities information; multimodal titles using various modes of display and representation; networked authorship projects that facilitate conversation and connections; and interactive, media rich educational resources.