ESF Humanities Spring- "Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities".

I'm attending this European workshop on publication in the humanities - based on themes of engagement, impact, language and future. There are 19 grantees and many languages with a broad range of views - tweeting at #humspring11.

There are interesting debates on everything from bibliometrics, to open access with the scholar Gudrun Gersmann giving a masterclass on digital publishing this morning. She gave excellent examples such as OAPEN, Francia(at Perspectivia), and recensio.net

Digital Journalism - a view from

This post from is from The Guardian Online by Editor Alan Rusbridger. He is speaking on Digital Journalism. He speaks about the Guardian's position which is that the newspaper is committed to a 'free at the point of desktop' model. He maintains that by having a paywall newspapers would cut themselves out of the conversations being had by writers, scientists, artists and readers worldwide...a way forward may be mutualisation where journalists and readers together produce something better than either on their own. More here.

There is also a link to the full text of his Cudlipp lecture today.