Reflections on Heliotropia and the Future of E-journal Publishing in the Humanities

The future of scholarly communications is a hotly debated and very important topic. The Drexel University Libraries even host a fantastic annual symposium on the issue. But much of the discussion focuses on what is happening in STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) fields. So, how are scholars in the Humanities thinking about how scholarly communication is changing?

Michael Papio, a Boccacio scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal Heliotropia, has written a great article drawing on his experience co-founding an open access Boccacio Studies e-journal to examine the challenges ( and possibilities) of e-publishing in the Humanities.

The article itself was published in an Open Access journal. Well worth a look.

M. Papio, Reflections on Heliotropia and the Future of E-journal Publishing in the Humanities, Storicamente, 4 (2008), http://www.storicamente.org/02_tecnostoria/filologia_digitale/papio.html

Studies in the History of Ethics

This is a free, peer-reviewed e-journal that strives to “contribute to the philosophical understanding of perennial problems within ethics.” Many issues follow the symposia format with articles addressing a central theme. In addition to the journal itself, the site includes a detailed Links section with information about philosophy conferences, calls for papers, and links to major research resources.

Well worth a look.