The Text Creation Partnership is delighted to once again be hosting a conference September 16-17, 2013, at the University of Oxford. We are currently seeking submissions related to this year’s theme, “Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies.” From the conference website: The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, based at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, invites proposals for conference papers. All papers that focus on early modern texts will be considered, but we…
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MPublishing is pleased to announce the first issue of the Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems (JSAIS), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes scholarly articles on all aspects of information systems. JSAIS is the official publication of the Southern Association for Information Systems. The editors of JSAIS seek for the journal to be open, in all senses of the word: Accessible online at no cost to the reader Free of overly dense, academic…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of the International Institute Journal, an open-access serial produced jointly by the University of Michigan’s International Institute (II) and Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS), and published online by MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. The II Journal is published twice a year, and includes features on cultural change, language, literature, communications technology, political and economic development, human rights, and global security. It aims to be…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of Music & Politics, an open-access online journal publishing since 2007. In partnership with MPublishing, the full run of Music & Politics is freely available online under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This peer-reviewed journal publishes two issues per year on topics including the impact of politics on the lives of musicians, music as a form of political discourse, and the influences of ideology on musical historiography. In addition to…
A new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, MPublishing’s flagship journal, is now available. According to the Editor’s Note, “The emergent theme of this issue is practicality: these are case studies and field research about publishing partnerships, file formats, and tools that publishing professionals can use to make the most of the resources they have at hand.” This issue includes the following pieces: “Refurbishing the Camelot of Scholarship: How to Improve the Digital Contribution…
It has been several years since the Text Creation Partnership has held an update at the American Library Association’s Annual Meeting, and we look forward to reviving the tradition this June. If you will be in Anaheim, we hope you will join us for an afternoon reception, as we celebrate reaching the milestone of 40,000 texts in EEBO-TCP, and look ahead to the future of the project. The program will include: updates on the status…
We’re excited to announce that we are seeking proposals for a conference about EEBO-TCP to be held at the University of Oxford September 17-18, 2012. The call for proposals follows, and may also be downloaded as a PDF.
Through May 20, 2012, the Folger Shakespeare Library is featuring a special exhibit called Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700. According to its website, the exhibit:
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we bring you a smattering of poetry, puzzles, and song for sweethearts! One of my favorites is a poem printed on a wreath of heart-shaped knots, from Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division: The poem reads: TRUE love is a pretious pleasure, Rich delight unvalu’d treasure, Two…
In April 2011, we announced that restrictions had been lifted from around 2,200 TCP texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Within hours, we heard from many folks who were frustrated that our announcement didn’t seem to have any teeth: Although we could (and did!) distribute the raw encoded text files to anyone who asked, there was no publicly available site for users to interact with the texts through a web browser. I’m delighted to…