Authors at rowhousepub all get $40,000 advance and 40% royalties share Helena Brantley PageBreak #pagebreakconf

Discoverability is a major challenge for African research networks. They are producing more than the 2% of world research credited to them; but accounting for the outputs is hampered by various factors. Morning keynote by Omo Oaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Librarians are key to sustainable African research networks. Lu sense is strengthening open science in Africa. Regional & continental consortia. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Repositories are key to local universities owning their own research. To own the infrastructure. “We want our cloud to live in Africa.” Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Open review communities will deploy existing publishing infrastructures. Notify in particular (in my, Kathi’s) experience that can promote interconnection between open access repositories & and commercial systems. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Adam Hyde discussing speed of Preprint mechanism as a technical service in the academic journal ecosystem to solve the slowness problem: the long delay between completion of the research & its official publication. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Progress in making PDFs more accessible to the 43M people globally who are blind and low vision. Here’s the machine learning/AI automated method of extraction and export to HTML. Panel: Bill McCoy, Lucy Lu Wang, Zoya Zilinskii, Rick, Pamela Berkman. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Niels ‘t Hooft, a game designer, invented Lotus, a novella optimized for various dimensions of mobile reading (chunked small, use of color for character POV, etc.) Immer, a test app in the Netherlands, now has 50k users, books from 30 publishers. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Immer reader, a very interesting alternative to ebook readers. Many levels of customization to give readers a more physical sense of what the text looks like in its entirety. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Packed house for @jasontanamor’s popup reading & Q&A about LOVE, DANCE & EGGROLLS at Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Talking about being one of the very few Filipinos in all-white midwestern community. Ooligan Press book available at #pdxbookfest

Taylor Jenkins Reid talking about CARRIE SOTO IS BACK with ⁦@CherylStrayed⁩ at #PDXbookfest. Original title: The Bitch Is Back. Publisher nixed it. “You can take a sharpie and write bitch on my copy,” said Strayed.

Highly relevant to #DH folks. Join the DH community talking via Mastodon, Hcommons, and other places.

Public library DEFUNDED because it continues to circulate 5 challenged books about #LGBTQ+ themes. Some residents demanded all books with LGBTQ+ themes be removed: 90 books total -- less than 1/100th of collection. Alan S. Inouye Andrew Albanese CCC's podcast series Rachel Chase Noorda

“Surprised by hope.” Josephine Woolington trained her attention on the relationships between animals, plants, humans, place and Native wisdom as she traveled around the PNW immediately after Covid. Read her new Ooligan Press book WHERE WE CALL HOME for sale Powell's Books.

Shocking lapse from Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 -- TRUST, named a Top Ten book of the year by The New York Times, is OUT OF STOCK. Hernan Diaz deserves much better treatment. nytimes.com/2022/11/29/boo… Paperback in mid-January 2023.

There are a number of discussion groups (in person and virtual) on Friday and Saturday in the #MLA23 Professional Development Hub--check out the list below. Please join us!

Join our panel on Adaptation and the Metaverse, Friday 10:15 AM #MLA23 if you are interested in a critical approach to Meta, Metaverse, and beyond. #Meta #Metaverse

TODAY, 3:30: Humanities+: Career-Minded Approaches to Humanities Teaching and Research 3 approaches: genetic encoding & film studies by Jay Clayton; Applied Humanities major (A-P Durand); my Building a Humanities-focused Creative Industries Program. chair jasonrhody #MLA23

“There is no utopia in Silicon Valley platforms, even if resistant work can be made in the storyscapes there,” says @AnaSalter #MLA23.

“Now is the time when we can make counternarratives. It’s important for us to give more tools to empower creative makers,” beyond corporate owned platforms, says John T. Murray #MLA23