The University of Guam Press received a $200,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to pilot a digital publishing program by developing an innovate digital publication about Micronesian seafaring and navigation.

[Providence, RI] Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning, the second title in the On Seeing series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Black Elegies is a poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature — everywhere, if you know how to see it.

OIPA interviews Alison Levy of Brown University Digital Publications. BUDP is OIPA's newest member, and is celebrating 10 years of digital scholarly publishing.

Brown University Digital Publications has won SILVER at the EPIC Awards presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, or Accessibility (DEIA) Initiatives category.

The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Cosette Bruhns Alonso as Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP). Cosette joins an innovative and exciting program expanding the frontiers of scholarly publishing.

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next scholarly work to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications.

Rehearsal Is at Dawn by Professor of Literary Arts Eleni Sikelianos is a multivalent, multimodal ancestral encounter that reaches into realms of Sapphic translation, activism, performance of antiquity, queer histories, and utopian politics. In 1901, Sikelianos’s great grandmother, Eva Palmer, moved from New York to Paris with her lover, the writer, instigator, and socialite Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of lesbian love affairs and backyard performances that reimagined Sappho’s work and life.

[Providence, RI] Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, the inaugural title in the On Seeing series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Mortevivum is a powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.

The Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing institute introduces scholars, many of whom are from historically Black and other minority-serving institutions, to best practices in online scholarly publishing.

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next scholarly work to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications. Articulations: Dancing Across Modernities, by Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, explores the place of dance as image and practice in the early twentieth century. Tracing the ways in which painters, poets, filmmakers, and critics turned to dance and the dancer as models for connecting times and places, it emphasizes that the dancer was herself not just a muse but a creative practitioner, student, and collector. She immersed herself in source materials, Clayton argues, collecting artifacts and ideas on tour, engaging in transregional and interdisciplinary dialogues, and writing her own histories of the artform through essays, interviews, and choreographies. A media-rich project that draws upon a wide array of artifacts including books, press clippings, films, snapshots, artworks, poems, maps, and anecdotes, this digital publication will incorporate a wealth of material to help readers travel with dancers across regions, stages, texts, and languages.

This year the Royal Institute of Philosophy honored A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, a born-digital monograph by Professor of Islamic Humanities and History Shahzad Bashir, placing the publication on the shortlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy annually celebrates the most original philosophical research that transcends academic disciplines.

Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP) has been invited to join the Association of University Presses, an organization of nearly 160 international nonprofit scholarly publishers. Since 1937, AUPresses advances the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. The Association holds intellectual freedom, integrity, stewardship, and equity and inclusion as core values. AUPresses members are active across many scholarly disciplines, including the humanities, arts, and sciences, publish significant regional and literary work, and are innovators in the world of digital publishing.

Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University Library has received a $169,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to host a second iteration of Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps. First offered in 2022 thanks to a generous grant from the NEH, this national training institute supports scholars who wish to pursue interpretive projects that require digital expression, but may lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions.

Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University Library has received a three-year $246,000 Implementation Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to establish a cross-organizational training and support program for HBCU library professionals seeking to gain or expand expertise in developing open access born-digital scholarship.

The Brown University Library is delighted to announce the new Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Professor Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost's Professor of History and Professor of Italian Studies, began her three-year tenure in this role on July 1, 2023. She succeeds Professor Steven Lubar, the inaugural Faculty Director, who made great strides to create an integrated and coherent suite of resources for digital scholarship at Brown.

The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Clare Kirkpatrick Jones as Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP). Reporting to Director Allison Levy, Clare’s first day will be July 10, 2023.

Virtual reality devices have taken gaming and entertainment communities by storm in recent years, but the phenomenon isn’t entirely new. Massimo Riva, professor of Italian studies and affiliated professor of modern culture and media, explored “the long history of the timeless human aspiration to reproduce the world we live in” in his award-winning digital publication.

In “Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World,” which was published last year, Riva looked at analog instruments in 18th- and 19th-century Italy that allowed people to observe simulations of the world as a precursor to virtual reality devices today.

The Association of American Publishers has named Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World by Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva the category winner in eProduct for the 47th Annual PROSE Awards. PROSE awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study each year.

Following a three-week inaugural session last summer, the Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing Institute met last week in a virtual follow-up meeting to discuss the status of cohort members’ born-digital projects. The institute, founded in 2021 by the University Library with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, aims to provide technical support and mentorship to faculty and administrators from under-resourced institutions seeking digital publication opportunities.

Project MUSE is pleased to host a new interactive, open-access, born-digital chapter, “The Web of History” from A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures by Shahzad Bashir published by the MIT Press. The chapter of the publication hosted on MUSE mirrors the content from the born-digital product’s primary site, and is intended to provide an additional pathway to discovery, as well as spotlight the MUSE platform’s suitability for hosting robust and innovative digital humanities works.

Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

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

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next four scholarly works to be developed by Brown University Digital Publications.

Brown University Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has developed a training institute for scholars who wish to pursue interpretive projects that require digital expression and digital publication but may lack resources and capacity at their home institutions. Centered on inclusion and accessibility, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps – an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities provides multi-pronged, far-reaching support via an intensive summer program for scholars from less well-resourced institutions, and a digital hub that makes all course materials publicly available.

New scholarly forms are transforming intellectual creativity, access to knowledge and reader engagement, Allison Levy writes.

Bringing humanistic research into the digital environment – and supporting new and diverse voices and perspectives – is one of the great benefits of open access, write the authors of the latest in our OA books series.

The American Historical Association has awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History to Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary, the first born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications. Edited by Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost's Professor of History at Brown, and Independent Scholar Donna Bilak, the open access book was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2020. Furnace and Fugue brings to life in digital form an enigmatic seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s musical alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens.

Open access publication expands series delving into comparative perspectives on the roots and effects of racism in the U.S.

An interactive, open-access born-digital publication, this groundbreaking book’s interface encourages engagement with rich visual material and multimedia evidence

Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, based at the University Library, announces the publication of the second born-digital scholarly monograph under the Digital Publications Initiative, a collaboration between the Library and the Dean of the Faculty. Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World, by Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva, explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, XR).

Report presents key findings of a summit on digital monographs; calls for an increase in access, equity, and inclusion in the digital development and dissemination of humanities scholarship.

Fifteen humanities scholars from under-resourced institutions—60% from HBCUs—will convene for national training workshop focused on growing and diversifying digital publication opportunities.

New multimodal series will explore under-examined questions at the intersection of visual culture and subjects such as race, decolonization, and privilege

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Faculty Advisory Committee, are pleased to announce the selection of the next two long-form scholarly works to be developed as part of Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative.

In a post from 'Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications', Catherine Cocks discusses Brown University's model for digital publishing in the humanities.

A second edition of Brown’s landmark report, which sparked a national conversation on higher education’s entanglements with racial slavery, offers new insights on the document’s persistent and evolving impact.

Furnace & Fugue is a born-digital edition of the 1618 book Atalanta fugiens and a very cool experiment in scholarly publishing. The book presents a musical alchemical allegory as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains text, image, and a musical score for three voices. The digital edition includes reproductions of every page of the original publication, an English translation, newly commissioned recordings of the book’s 50 fugues, and scholarly essays contextualizing and analyzing the work. The Elephant asked four of the key collaborators—Allison Levy, digital scholarship editor at Brown University, volume editors Tara Nummedal and Donna Bilak, and University of Virginia Press editor of history and social sciences Nadine Zimmerli—to talk about how they developed and published the project.

A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will establish a training program for under-resourced scholars focused on growing and diversifying interactive, media-rich digital scholarship nationally.

National training program centered on diversity and inclusion aims to broaden the range of scholars producing born-digital publications and, by extension, the audience for digital humanities scholarship.

Free and open publication documents and expands series exploring origins, history, and legacies of anti-Black racism in the U.S.

A multimodal digital essay from the University of Virginia Press’ Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary is now available open access on Project MUSE. The MUSE version of the essay mirrors the content from the born-digital product’s primary site, and is intended to provide an additional pathway to discovery, as well as spotlight the MUSE platform’s suitability for hosting robust and innovative digital humanities works.

With new Mellon Foundation grant, Brown will advance its foray into digital scholarship, starting with 'Furnace and Fugue.'

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next four long-form scholarly works to be developed as part of Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative.

Renée Ater, who has conducted pathbreaking research at the intersection of race, public art and national identity, will teach courses and create a born-digital scholarly publication as a visiting associate professor of Africana studies at Brown.

The pathbreaking multimodal digital book — Furnace and Fugue — was developed with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The University will expand its Digital Publications Initiative with the help of a six-year, $775,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next two long-form scholarly works to be developed as part of Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative.

With $775,000 from The Mellon Foundation, the Brown University Library, together with the Dean of the Faculty, extends its work with born-digital scholarly monographs.

The Foundation’s award will enable the University to bring new life to research topics in the humanities, expanding Brown’s portfolio of original scholarship presented in enhanced forms.

The Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the University Library, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next long-form scholarly work to be developed under Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative.

Islamic Pasts and Futures: Horizons of Time, by Shahzad Bashir, Director of Middle East Studies, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, and Professor of Religious Studies, probes the functioning of time as an aspect of human experience.