“EU commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn made a strong pitch for the indispensability of the humanities in understanding issues such as climate change …” (more)
[Paul Gillespie, Irish Times, 11 May]
“Data being made available online is growing at a rate of 50% per annum, and this includes data at the heart of the Humanities – data which forms a critical part of our cultural and social heritage. This event will include short presentations from our guest speakers, and a lively dialogue with the audience in a panel format, followed by a wine/coffee reception that will allow for the dialogue to continue in a less formal setting …” (more)
[Digital Repository Ireland, 18 April]
“As debate continues over the benefits and risks of open access to the humanities and social sciences, one concern that has been voiced above the rest is the disruption caused to the funding of scholarly societies in the UK …” (more)
[Adam Crymble, Impact of Social Sciences, 12 March]
“The Green Open Access route, which encourages the use of institutional repositories for depositing manuscripts as drafts or after a publisher’s embargo period, seems to many in the Humanities and Social Sciences like a more agreeable way to widen access to scholarly work. Mike Taylor is not convinced …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 6 March]
“The Arts & Humanities include a diverse range of subjects, including many of the oldest intellectual pursuits such as Philosophy, Religion, Music, History, Art, Theatre and Literature. These disciplines, along with fields such as Language, Linguistics and the History of Science, share a common concern with humanity and culture …” (more)
[Matthew Richardson, Research Trends, March issue]
“It has been very encouraging to see the launch and early success of ORCID, a service which on the face of it would seem to offer a solution to one of the key problems of decentralised scholarship and publication: how to connect, in a machine-readable way, all of your published output …” (more)
[Peter Webster, Impact of Social Sciences, 27 February]
“Humanities must embrace interdisciplinarity and reclaim their key role in our fractured world. It is often argued that the complex, globalised world of the 21st century demands new ways of thinking and working to tackle its key challenges, from the financial crisis to conflict, climate change and poverty …” (more)
[Michael Worton, Times Higher Education, 21 February]
“… when journalists talk about career opportunities in the ‘tech sector’, they are not talking exclusively about technical jobs but about jobs traditionally filled by humanities and business graduates who now need a range of skills – well short of graduate level expertise – such as to make them employable …” (more)
[Colum McCaffery’s Weblog, 11 February]
“Sir, – It was most refreshing to read your arguments in favour of studying a degree in the arts (Education, February 5th). Students who are filling out a CAO form at 17 years of age are already under great pressure …” (more)
[Martin Brady, Irish Times, 6 February]
“Esoteric philosophers, unemployed writers and ready-made civil servants: just some of the stereotypes of arts graduates. So what use is an arts degree today? …” (more)
[Peter McGuire, Irish Times, 5 February]
“… I can’t do it anymore. The energy that it takes for me to be pissed off about these things actually takes me away from making the liberal arts – specifically the humanities, specifically literature – exciting and interesting for my students …” (more)
[Reassigned Time 2.0, 31 January]
“The Open Library of Humanities is a newly-launched project aiming to provide an ethically sound and sustainable open access model for humanities research. By coordinating the discussion and implementation of a community-grounded approach to academic publishing, OLH aims to create an outlet better able to serve academics …” (more)
[Martin Eve, Impact of Social Sciences, 29 January]
“Hey, bloggy pals. CF and I were talking about this at the end of last semester, and she suggested that I might do a post about this topic to see what folks had to say …” (more)
[Reassigned Time 2.0, 11 January]
“How can universities demonstrate the benefit that arts and humanities research provides to society? It’s a perennial question and one that has become more urgent in Europe in recent years …” (more)
[Ellen Hazelkorn, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 January]
“For quite some time, I have been interested in/incensed by the scholarly publication system; the exclusions, iniquities and absurdities of it can be clearly seen from only a brief survey of the economic field …” (more)
[Martin Paul Eve, 9 January]
“The 2013 Modern Language Association convention in Boston included a critical reexamination of doctoral education, an effort outlined by former MLA president Russell A Berman …” (more)
[Ruth Starkman, Huffington Post, 9 January]
“Almost every college student who considers majoring in English – or French, or philosophy, or art history – inevitably hears the question: ‘What in the world are you going to do with that?’ The question can come from worried parents, perplexed relatives, or derisive, incredulous peers …” (more)
[HT: Stephen Schwartz]
[Michael Bérubé, CNN, 4 January]
“Someone once said to me that the best way to get researchers to be serious about the issue of modernising scholarly communications was to let the scholarly monograph business go to the wall as an object lesson to everyone else …” (more)
[Cameron Neylon, Impact of Social Sciences, 4 January]
“Humanities are at risk, less from the free education market than the free market strategies in education …” (more)
[Aurélien Mondon, Guardian Professional, 7 December]
“History professors at the University of Florida think their courses are definitely valuable, but they don’t want them to be among the most expensive. And they are organising to protest against a task force’s recommendation to charge more for majors without an immediate job payoff – a recommendation that the historians fear could discourage enrolments …” (more)
[Colleen Flaherty, Times Higher Education, 26 November]
