we’re looking back on all the great things that 2022 had to offer within our commonplace community. this year, we published 68 unique contributors across 37 pieces. thanks to everyone (from authors, to podcasters, to series editors, to our editorial team) who made this year so special and fun!
by Simon Batterbury, Gerda Wielander, and Andrea E. Pia
Published: May 06, 2022
Continuing the work to make publishing accessible and just, with updated recommendations toward the commonification (and away from the commodification) of open access
College students face big problems ahead. This interview with the Lead Librarian for Public Science at NC State talks about Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: an online curricula that prepares students both for university and the world beyond.
Looking back to remember the importance of raw curiosity, unstructured collaboration, and the freedom to explore the world. Originally published in Harpers, issue 179, in June/November 1939.
🎧 A conversation about communicating amongst scientists, clinicians, policy makers, and rural communities with the communications specialist of the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network (1h 15m with transcript).
Reproducibility in experimental methods, questions of intellectual property, and bias in publications continue to plague scientific researchers. Could tokenizing research products provide a solution to these problems?
With the boom of self-publishing and blog content, there are nearly infinite stories and personal information to be found on the web. How should we use these data ethically in a research context?
Effective data stewardship requires community and sovereignty, especially when the data is about the environment and all its dynamic connections to our lives. How can we use digital infrastructure with sustainability in mind?
Scholarly publishing is evolving, and there is a need to understand and design and build new workflows and technology to support emerging publishing processes.
The recent shift towards DEI-related values motivates technology providers to catch up and address the voids alongside key stakeholders, while facing cultural and technical challenges.
How does the essay jam both capture productive tensions in community-led, community-responsive publishing, and suggest future directions for structuring collaborative writing activities?
A recent development in publishing is the increased attention to accessibility. But this needs to be more than just making content accessible. The systems involved in the creation, development, production, and dissemination of the content need to be accessible as well.
The publication of experimental, digital work engenders different roles and relationalities, requiring “a kind of collaboration among authors, editors, and technical staff that is quite different from the traditional publishing process
Recognizing that the many facets of scholars’ identities as people has a direct impact on their professional lives, we identified the lack of peer review as a clear deterrent to building up digital scholarship in these underrepresented fields in digital humanities.
