Dawn Durante

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Assistant Editorial Director, University of North Carolina Press (@uncpress)
📚 acquiring books on history, Black studies, Black feminism, girlhood, and social justice issues
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Sherlock Holmes Enters The Public Domain — Here Are The Other Works Free To Use In 2023

Copyrights from 1927 were initially scheduled to expire in 2003 prior to a 20-year delay.

Forbes

New from @FeedingTheElephant: Multimodal Digital Monographs

An interview with Emory University’s Sarah McKee and Brown University’s Allison Levy, who share insights from their work publishing digital multimedia scholarship.

https://networks.h-net.org/node/1883/discussions/12015821/multimodal-digital-monographs-interview-allison-levy-and-sarah

#publishing #FeedingTheElephant

Multimodal Digital Monographs: An Interview with Allison Levy and Sarah McKee | The H-Net Book Channel | H-Net

Guest Post - The Time Has Come to Start Swimming Upstream: How Meaningful Engagement with Authors Early in the Research Process Can Yield Significant Benefits to Publishers
#ScholarlyKitchen #publishing
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/12/07/guest-post-the-time-has-come-to-start-swimming-upstream-how-meaningful-engagement-with-authors-early-in-the-research-process-can-yield-significant-benefits-to-publishers/
Guest Post — The Time Has Come to Start Swimming Upstream: How Meaningful Engagement with Authors Early in the Research Process Can Yield Significant Benefits to Publishers

Avi Staiman discusses how meaningful engagement with authors early in the research process can yield significant benefits to publishers and journals.

The Scholarly Kitchen

“Inspired by the New York Times’ Overlooked series, Long Overdue is a series of In Memoriam essays for historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark.”

Townhouse Notes | Perspectives on History | AHA https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/january-2023/townhouse-notes-long-overdue

Townhouse Notes: Long Overdue

A new Perspectives project looks to honor historians of color whose deaths were not marked in AHA publications.

“In general terms, transnational feminists understand that conditions of imperial domination transcended the local and must therefore be analyzed within a transnational frame.”

Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism | AAIHS https://www.aaihs.org/tracing-the-pan-african-foundations-of-transnational-black-feminism/

#AAIHS #BlackPerspectives #BlackHistory

Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism | AAIHS

An unidentified event attended by, left to right, Claudia Jones, Paul Robeson, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Eslanda (Essie) Robeson, and an unidentified couple, circa 1959 (Schomburg Center/ NYPL) Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope ...

AAIHS

“Michael Eric Dyson pointed out, “This Black woman, had she been anybody else—even a straight Black woman would’ve received more support than a queer Black woman with a Black wife.”

Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/brittney-griner-prison-conditions-russia/

Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home

If the US doesn’t bring her back, the basketball star’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia’s “land of prisons” will likely be brutal.

The Nation
10 Books About Books for Serious Bibliophiles | Book Riot https://bookriot.com/books-about-books-for-bibliophiles/
10 Books About Books for Serious Bibliophiles | Book Riot

From reads about lexicographers and bookshop employees to librarians, these books about books are for serious bibliophiles only.

BOOK RIOT
Guest Post — Charleston 2022 — Finding Paths to Open Access Book Publishing

Erich van Rijn looks at the University of California's Luminos open access books program and reviews lessons learned and what is needed for such programs to succeed.

The Scholarly Kitchen

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#sblaar22 #SBLAAR2022 #SBLAAR I have 300 of these for LGBTI/Queer sessions, which should be more than enough so I’m carrying a bag around.

If your forgot a mask, I’m happy to share. Or if you want some to hand to folks, I’m happy to share!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/idouTheHoke/status/1594017540815998978

Dr. Jimmy Hoke on Twitter

“#sblaar22 #SBLAAR2022 #SBLAAR I have 300 of these for LGBTI/Queer sessions, which should be more than enough so I’m carrying a bag around. If your forgot a mask, I’m happy to share. Or if you want some to hand to folks, I’m happy to share!”

Twitter

RT @[email protected]

A reminder as we approach #SBLAAR2022: if you've got job security & your university covers your expenses, consider offering to pick up the tab for the student/postdoc/adjunct when you get that coffee/drink/lunch/Uber/etc. These conferences are expensive.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/constancekassor/status/1592533258436497410

Dr. Connie Kassor on Twitter

“A reminder as we approach #SBLAAR2022: if you've got job security & your university covers your expenses, consider offering to pick up the tab for the student/postdoc/adjunct when you get that coffee/drink/lunch/Uber/etc. These conferences are expensive.”

Twitter