What does the changing scholarly communication landscape mean to Humanities scholars?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.
A literary criticism bonanza just for youFor the next month the Library will have a trial subscription to the
Literature Criticism Online database. The rial allows you to explore the extensive fulltext resources of Gale's ten major literary criticism series.
Derrida, Foucault, Bakhtin? Oh my!The
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism includes more than 240 entries written by 275 experts that help explain the ideas of the major theories and theorists. It also includes entries on historical developments in criticism and the many influential schools and movements. This is an important tool for anyone getting started with critical theory. This title is updated annually.
Exciting New Communications DatabaseThe Library just subscribed to EBSCO's
Communication and Mass Media Complete, an extensive database with fulltext scholarly journal content covering all aspects of Communications and related areas.
Analyze your news!SiloBreaker: An online news aggregator and search service offering relational analysis and visualization tools to help contextualize media coverage of current events.
Games and Social JusticeJust Launched! ICED Video Game from Breakthrough: building human rights culture.
Not so much a research tool as an interesting use of technology to raise public awareness of a hot social issue, ICED: I Can End Deportation is a free video game that explores the immigration debate from the point of view of immigrant teens. The [...]
