Getting PH listed in resources databases

[GeeAlmeida]

Hi everyone @programminghistorian/project-team!

Today I started to identify DH resource databases and email them asking if they would like to list our awesome and incredibly resourceful website in their pages. The ones I already identified and contacted are the MIT and the dhcenter.

Please let me know of other similar DH resource lists you are aware of, and I will nudge them as well.

[GeeAlmeida]

Already listed: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/digitalhumanities/resources https://libguides.northwestern.edu/dh/resources https://guides.loc.gov/digital-scholarship/resources

Added: https://dhcenter-unil-epfl.ch/en/resources/

[GeeAlmeida]

Wrote to: MIT Bodleian (Oxford)

[acrymble]

@GeeAlmeida does this have an end goal for us to be able to close the ticket? It feels like there may not be an end to possible repositories

I think the reason you may not be getting suggestions is that most of us don't use these in our own work.

[GeeAlmeida]

Hi Adam @acrymble I intend to use this ticket to keep track of the repositories I identify and communicate with.

[nivaca]

I have requested that the four editions of PH be added to https://oaji.net/.

[anisa-hawes]

Maybe this would be another resource list worth being on?: https://dighumlab.org/category/learning-resources/e-learning/

[anisa-hawes]

Another idea is to re-investigate https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/.

Adam shared this resource link with me a few month's before you joined us, and I found that we don't (at the moment) meet one of their criteria: Must be a complete textbook available as a complete portable file (e.g. PDF, EPUB).

I know this is something that has been discussed within the Project Team in the past and decided against. But it is something I've been thinking about in relation to users’ needs, e.g., to be able to download and save our lessons to read offline. I wonder whether we could consider packaging the past ‘volumes’ of our journals as PDFs? (a volume = lessons published by each journal during one year)

[acrymble]

We've just had these recommended at work:

OpenStax •Open Textbook Library •Pressbooks Directory •Directory of Open Access Books •OER Commons

I haven't looked into them.

[GeeAlmeida]

I have now contacted openstax, asking if they would like to list our materials among their resources. They replied, pointing me towards their partnership webpage: https://openstax.org/general/openstax-ally-technology-partner-program.

The next application period will open again mid December through mid January.

[GeeAlmeida]

Maybe this would be another resource list worth being on?: https://dighumlab.org/category/learning-resources/e-learning/

Definitely, plus they are an IPP! I have written to our contact at the Digital Humanities Lab Denmark.

[GeeAlmeida]

I have requested that the four editions of PH be added to https://oaji.net/.

@nivaca did you get a reply?

[nivaca]

@nivaca did you get a reply? @GeeAlmeida, unfortunately not. But the request to include our four editions is still ongoing, so it seems.

[spapastamkou]

Antonio Rojas Castro and then I had registered PH ES and FR in OER commons (and perhaps EN as well or it was already there). Please check again however.

[spapastamkou]

after verification, it was actually the global PH I myself had registered on OER commons. So for this registry, mentioned by Adam, the FR and PT editions are not in yet. @GeeAlmeida

[GeeAlmeida]

Thanks for this Sofia! @spapastamkou

[GeeAlmeida]

H ES and FR in O

Spanish and English were listed in OER. French and Portuguese were not.

I submitted them to the OER today. Let's see if they will list this time.

[GeeAlmeida]

I've asked UCLA's digital humanities program today: https://dh.ucla.edu/

[GeeAlmeida]

H ES and FR in O

Spanish and English were listed in OER. French and Portuguese were not.

I submitted them to the OER today. Let's see if they will list this time.

I've received a confirmation that French is now listed. No word on the Portuguese though.

[spapastamkou]

thanks @GeeAlmeida !

[GeeAlmeida]

Requested insertion here: https://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/db_prop.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en

[GeeAlmeida]

Checked and we are in EBSCO (US database)

[DanielAlvesLABDH]

Hi @GeeAlmeida , do I need to do anything about this? https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=programming+historian&asc=false And this? https://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/db_prop.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en

[GeeAlmeida]

Hi @GeeAlmeida , do I need to do anything about this? https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=programming+historian&asc=false And this? https://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/db_prop.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en

Hi @DanielAlvesLABDH no, I don't think so. I have requested insertion to the second link. When I get a chance I will ask in the first link. Thank you!

[acrymble]

@GeeAlmeida you could productively use these opportunities to tell them about IPP. Most of these resources you're finding seem to be individual universities.

[anisa-hawes]

I came across Surf.nl last week, https://www.surf.nl/en/education-it/digital-educational-resources which I understand is the closest equivalent to Jisc in The Netherlands. Might be worth looking into too?

Perhaps worth cross-referencing #2535 here in case they offer Subscription Management as well as resource listings?

[GeeAlmeida]

from issue #2535:

• [X] EBSCO https://www.ebsco.com/academic-libraries (we are already there)
• [X] JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/ (English submitted via online form 07/12 - not yet online 23/12)
• [ ] Surf.nl https://www.surf.nl/en/education-it/digital-educational-resources (emailed 23/12, again 22/02)
• [ ] Arts & Humanities Citation Index / Web of Science
• [ ] Scopus
• [ ] ERIH PLUS
• [ ] Google Scholar - see comment below (23/12)
• [ ] OpenStax - Registrations accepted through January 20th, 2023
• [x] ProQuest - contacted 14/12 - received a reply 6/01 (they will review our content and if they find it suitable they will grab it from our website).
• [x] DOAJ - we are here
• [x] MIAR - four languages added
• [x] ROAD - we are here
• [ ] Latindex - Used this link to have the English journal included on 23/12. If this works, use it for the remaining 3 journals.
• [ ] MERLOT

Resource lists to try to get into: https://guides.lib.udel.edu/c.php?g=85603&p=548857 Email: kabner@udel.edu

https://guides.lib.ku.edu/c.php?g=95126&p=616810 Email: brianlee@ku.edu

em Portugues needs to be added to: https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=programming+historian&asc=false

Looked at:

• SPARC https://sparcopen.org/ (not for us, pro-open access NGO. Interesting list of supporting orgs though)
• Lyrasis https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/Main.aspx (lots of paid options)
• CRL https://www.crl.edu/ (not pertinent)
• https://www.coalition-s.org/ (not pertinent)
• https://researchguides.njit.edu/oer/textbooks/repositories (already looked at the listed options)

[GeeAlmeida]

Wrote to: MIT Bodleian (Oxford)

Nothink has come out of my attempts - checked today and they did not list PH.

[GeeAlmeida]

Maybe this would be another resource list worth being on?: https://dighumlab.org/category/learning-resources/e-learning/

Definitely, plus they are an IPP! I have written to our contact at the Digital Humanities Lab Denmark.

I have written to them today requesting insertion

[GeeAlmeida]

Let's see if they will list this time.

No reply and no insertion either

[GeeAlmeida]

@nivaca did you get a reply? @GeeAlmeida, unfortunately not. But the request to include our four editions is still ongoing, so it seems.

@nivaca Do you think it's time to reapply, or should I give them more time?

[GeeAlmeida]

Are you familiar with OpenStax? They have an open call for applications, but I am not sure if this is for us?

Here are some of the questions in their form that I don't know to answer: What are our goals over the next 18 months, What is our stance on OER and why are we interested in partnering with OpenStax? What is the greatest advantage a partnership with OpenStax could offer our business?

[GeeAlmeida]

There is something called The Open Library of Humanities, an initiative from Birkbeck (University of London). Two DH journals are listed: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique and Digital Medievalist. If PH wants to be included, the form needs to be filled out by the editors.

[GeeAlmeida]

A note on Google Scholar: I have been unable to use their form to request inclusion in the GS index. Can someone with more technical knowledge give it a go and report back here? @programminghistorian/technical-team

Here is their information on what we need to do: https://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html

This and this are the best resources I found about getting indexed by GS.

[GeeAlmeida]

H ES and FR in O

Spanish and English were listed in OER. French and Portuguese were not.

I submitted them to the OER today. Let's see if they will list this time.

04/01/23 An update: French is now included. No sign of Portuguese. Might need to ask for the inclusion of Portuguese again.

[GeeAlmeida]

I made a request to the Library of Congress (U.S.) and it looks like they will include our journals in their Electronic Resources Online Catalog. I'll update here with a link when I receive the confirmation.