What do the terms “open access,” “open science,” and “open humanities” mean in theory and practice and why do these concepts matter? These are some of the overarching questions that we discuss with Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, open science officer at DARIAH-EU. This exciting discussion on the promises and realities of “accessification” was recorded in Berlin, Germany.

Infobox – additional resources to complement the conversation for those interested in learning more about the topics covered in the episode (provided by Erzsébet):

An insightful paper on Open Humanities: Knöchelmann, Marcel. 2019. “Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?” Publications 7, no. 4: 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7040065 

A tool that shows you which version of your papers you are free to share: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Why Academia.edu is not the best places for your research to share (but why it’s really difficult to leave these social platforms): Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, “One more word about ResearchGate/Academia.edu and why using these platforms will never be equal to proper self-archiving,” in DARIAH Open, 31/05/2020, https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/878.  

An alternative: https://hcommons.org/

Here you can find repositories to your preprints: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/opendoar …to your data: https://www.re3data.org/ 

DARIAH’s website: www.dariah.eu 

The DARIAH Open blog, a discourse space for Open Humanities: https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/

OpenMethods, a multilingual Digital Humanities community and platform dedicated to tools and methods: https://openmethods.dariah.eu/

DARIAH’s sister infrastructure, OPERAS: https://www.operas-eu.org/

The Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) project: https://www.force11.org/blog/reimagining-educational-practices-open-repo

Sustainable Open Access platforms from the Global South: SciElo: https://scielo.org/en/ and AmeliCA: http://amelica.org/index.php/en/home/ 

The Open Library of Humanities: free to publish, free to read, high-quality Open Access journals for Humanities disciplines  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0Jko0ZBcE&t=5s 

Speaking of Open Access books, the COPIM project: https://copim.pubpub.org/ ;  the ScholarlLed: https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/650

Valuable failures to learn from: https://research-it.berkeley.edu/publications/what-ever-happened-project-bamboo

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud and its Markplace: https://sshopencloud.eu/ssh-open-marketplace 

DARIAH Open Access Monograph Bursary: https://www.dariah.eu/2021/05/14/dariah-is-launching-an-annual-open-access-monograph-bursary-for-early-career-researchers-in-digital-humanities/