E-journals
From digitalHPS
Options for an e-journal on Digital HPS.
Creating a new e-journal for Digital HPS will serve the twin goals of providing a persistent source of technical and scholarly information regarding practices in digital HPS while serving as a peer-reviewed, recognized publication outlet for contributing authors.
At the digital HPS Initiative Summit several examples from science were mentioned, including the Drosophila Information Service newsletters (for technique articles see http://www.ou.edu/journals/dis/techniquearticles.html) and Bioinformatics. Note that Bioinformatics includes both more technical Applications Notes and original papers by topic.
That said, several e-journals are currently available on the digital humanities, most notably those produced in conjunction with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The ADHO represents a consortium of the The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH), and The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI). The ADHO webpage lists a number of peer reviewed journals:
- Literary and Linguistic Computing, a print journal published by Oxford University Press
- "Digital Studies / Le champ numérique", a new open-access peer reviewed electronic journal from SDH/SEMI
- DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed electronic journal from ADHO
- "Computers in the Humanities Working Papers", an online preprint publication
- "Text Technology", a free electronic journal published by McMaster University
These journals present a range of content from project descriptions to analysis of how digitization on humanities scholarship and teaching. DHQ contains the most technical information with articles directed at created digital humanities infrastructures.
DHQ is a model or even a possible outlet for the technical publications for the Digital HPS group. The Spring 2009: v3 n2 issue of DHQ, for instance, has a special cluster of articles on data mining. While DHQ accepts a wide range of types of material, it has clear Peer Review Guidelines at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/peerReviewing.html.
I would suggest that we consider these a possible models or even possible alternatives as we further discuss a Digital HPS e-journal.
