Open Humanities & Social Sciences

We are a multidisciplinary & international group of open advocates working in H&SS.

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[Rosie Higman @RosieHLib]

I wrote a thing about my experiences at @open_con and working with @openhumsocsci - thanks again to @open_con for the scholarship! https://t.co/Fs3icrXYJH

[Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra @etothczifra]

@openhumsocsci folks might be interested :-) https://t.co/grSXpjNPjr

[Knowledge Unlatched @KUnlatched]

We need your support to make OA work for the whole community! Find out more in our newsletter, with a special thanks to #TrentUniversity #OpenAccess https://t.co/hdmQccF4dX

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

COMING JAN 2018! Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology and Globalization https://t.co/ftwyzEc3ne

[OpenCon @open_con]

Are you based out of Virginia and interested in #OpenScience and #OpenEducation? You're invited to join #OpenCon 2018 Virginia on January 12th! RSVP at: https://t.co/uv5kBRkRmR

[Knowledge Commons @KCommons_org]

“I strongly believe that the humanities needs a trusted, library-quality repository on the web that is run by the scholarly community — not by a for-profit firm intent on selling and mining academic work or scholars’ personal information.” @brettbobley on https://t.co/tdWZKxRi7S

[Raewyn Connell @raewynconnell]

New #openaccess repository for texts in #gender research, sponsored by uni consortium in Berlin: https://t.co/99qZy4OuTY. Great initiative!

[OER Digest @OERdigest]

Hot off the press: Authors working in partnership with the @RebusCommunity have just released a new open textbook, Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship. https://t.co/HNkkmBdI5z #OER

[Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain]

In law we’re making open-source casebooks in the face of $250+ texts. Made easier because American judicial opinions — 90% of a typical book — are public domain.

https://t.co/WzL2qwnBbI https://t.co/yAB7RvOVwT

[Knowledge Unlatched @KUnlatched]

We want to see OA work for our community but we need your support. We've extended our pledging deadline for KU Select 2017 to 15.12 and now every single pledge counts! Be part of the change and make OA happen #OpenAccess https://t.co/9CK889Rbr3

[MLACommons @MLACommons]

James Baldwin died #onthisday in 1987. You can find writing about Baldwin in CORE, like "The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction" by Laila Amine: https://t.co/3Dksah6YzZ

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

Great graphic on the benefits of #openaccess from https://t.co/svS16rzbNN

[UBC Philosophy @UBCPhilosophy]

Jonathan Ichikawa @jichikawa has a new open-access introductory logic textbook, free for anyone to use: https://t.co/opokkdiF0k

[Lindsay McKenzie @lindsay_mck]

This is fascinating. @SPARC_NA is tracking how many universities are cancelling their bundled journal subscriptions and what they save (we're talking $$$). NB: They are also offering to help universities cancel those deals. #OA https://t.co/SYn01HGbGq

[Linda Lew 刘凌达 @Lindadalew]

"Free #education needs to be on the table. If education is the key to access - then you can't hide the keys" as seen in vids about South Africa student protests over tuition, shown by Reggie Raju at #OANepal #AsianRegionalMeeting

[Peter Suber (@[email protected]) @petersuber]

Open letter from 80+ orgs: The European Copyright Directive could cause "irreparable damage to our fundamental rights and freedoms, our economy and competitiveness, our education and research, our innovation and competition, our creativity and our culture. https://t.co/W4kb64seEC

[Nicole Allen @txtbks]

Asia Regional Meeting on #OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenData is now underway in Kathmandu! Follow along at #ARM17 https://t.co/obDOkauedD