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

Literature Criticism Online (trial) through June 11th

For the next month the Library will have a trial subscription to the Literature Criticism Online database. The trial allows you to explore the extensive fulltext resources of Gale’s ten major literary criticism series. While selected content from each series is available online to the Drexel community in the related database Literature Resource Center, and Hagarty Library has partial runs of four of the ten series in our Reference collection, the LCO offers the fulltext access to the complete backfile of each series.

The database includes the Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 14001800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.

Of course, as with all of our database trials, I am very interested in hearing your response to this resource.