In the summer of 2018, two dear colleagues — Sonia Pérez Villanueva at Lesley University and Irene Mizrahi at Boston College — and I decided to co-found a journal dedicated to Peninsular Spanish culture. Our dream became a reality in 2019 when we produced the first issue of ConSecuencias:… Continue reading »
My lab’s research is funded by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, and NSF has a Public Access Policy that requires publications that result from NSF-funded research be made openly accessible so the public can freely access research findings. It’s also important to me that other researchers and… Continue reading »
As a librarian I have supported Open Access as a way to provide more equitable access to scholarly content for all library users, but I have also sought to ‘walk the walk’ as a writer. At each institution I have sought to deposit my work in an open institutional repository,… Continue reading »
The Library of Chinese Humanities (LoCH) is an ongoing series of facing-page translations of important works in the premodern Chinese textual tradition. The series encompasses all periods of premodern Chinese humanities, from antiquity to the early twentieth century. It publishes works of literature, history, thought, religion, theory of the… Continue reading »
I publish my academic work open access because I believe the true value of research lies in its ability to reach and impact people. The high cost of journal subscriptions, especially from large for-profit publishers, creates a significant barrier for many individuals and institutions. Smaller schools, independent researchers, and certainly… Continue reading »
My experience with open access publishing has different layers. As an author, I have published my research in public-facing outlets because I realized that it’s an efficient way to dialogue with a larger readership than the specialized colleagues in my field of research. As a journal editor, I co-created an… Continue reading »
As the Managing Editor of Bibliotheca Dantesca, an academic journal dedicated to Dante Studies, I oversee our commitment to open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). I am deeply committed to open access because it ensures that scholarly research is freely available to all—students,… Continue reading »
About ten years ago, I published my first peer-reviewed article, “Bomb-proofing the Digital Images,” in Media-N, the open-source journal of the New Media Caucus. Last year, I co-edited a special issue of that journal, with the theme “Afterlives of Data,” which brought together contributors–both scholars and… Continue reading »
Earlier this year I co-authored a peer-reviewed research article that was published in MDPI Photonics, an open access journal headquartered in Switzerland. This work was co-authored by Professor Tiku Majumder and two former Williams students. The content of the article was largely technical –… Continue reading »