Excellent stuff. I've shared it widely.

Two related initiatives for those who are interested in this.

Force11.org is a group dedicated to the development of knowledge, techniques, and resources in scholarly communication. It started in the sciences--which is a really interesting communication space humanists can learn much from. But it is spreading quickly through other domains. We (I'm an outgoing VP) are encouraging humanists and librarians and especially those with experience outside Anglophone, Anglosphere communication to join us.

To foster that, we have also recently struck a working group, funded very generously by Helmsley, to investigate and promote the development of a 'scholarly commons'-- an interdisciplinary, inter-region, and multilingual convergence of best practice in the domain.

We don't have our website up for that last initiative yet, but it will be coming very soon. There will be two workshops on the topic in the next 12 months or so.


On Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 14:53 igalina <igalina@unam.mx> wrote:

Dear Ernesto,

I couldn't agree more. Looking at the methodology there are two interesting points to note:

"Exclusions
Universities are excluded from the World University Rankings (...)  if their research output amounted to fewer than 200 articles per year over the five-year period 2010-14. "


The obvious question is how do they found out how many articles were produced by the universities? 


A bit further on:

"This year, our bibliometric data supplier Elsevier examined more than 51 million citations to 11.3 million journal articles, published over five years. The data are drawn from the 23,000 academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database and include all indexed journals published between 2010 and 2014. "


23,000 academic journals published mainly in English and an already well know bias towards publishing research from predominantly a few countries.  Fiormonte discussed it here: http://infolet.it/2015/07/12/monocultural-humanities/ in relation to DH. 


I think that the scholarly publishing system and how we measure our research output is one of the biggest problems we face right now.  

Best,

Isabel






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Dra. Isabel Galina Russell
Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, 
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
@igalina


De: globaloutlookdh-l <globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca> en nombre de Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com>
Enviado: miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2015 02:39 p. m.
Para: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community
Asunto: [globaloutlookDH-l] Arts and Humanities top 100
 
Dear all,

I hope you are all well.

Today saw the publication of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings “Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities top 100 in partnership with Elsevier”.

I took some time to look at the date to write a blog post, which I share with you here:
 
https://epriego.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/mapping-the-and-elseviers-2015-2016-arts-and-humanities-subject-ranking-top-100/
Mapping THE and Elsevier's 2015-2016: Arts and Humanities Subject Ranking Top 100
Where I quickly map the data from the "Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities top 100 in partnership with Elsevier" published 21 October 2015.



Happy International Open Access Week!

Best regards,

Ernesto


Dr Ernesto Priego
Lecturer in Library Science, #citylis City University London
Editor-in-Chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
https://epriego.wordpress.com/
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