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Here’s what we’re working on now

We are building a portfolio of activities to support new and emerging scholarship within and beyond the academy. Here is a sample of what we’re working on now.

Center for Humanities Communication
Mellon Foundation Grant, 2025-2026

Feature Project
Center for Humanities Communication, Mellon Foundation (organization building)

Year
February 2025 to July 2026

The Community Publishing Garden
Open Book Collective, Development fund, 2025

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How are we shaping training for Humanities Communication?

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Publications and Outputs

Featured publication:

Research citations building trust in Wikipedia: Results from a survey of published authors

Access our peer-reviewed open-acces article in PLOSOne to gather insights on published researcher sentiments and how academic citations in Wikipedia are building public trust in research.

The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly research has been the topic of much inquiry over the past decade, however little is known regarding perceived Researchers trustworthiness of Wikipedia citations and representation of their work. This cross-publisher study (Taylor & Francis and University of Michigan Press) aimed to investigate author sentiment towards Wikipedia as a source of trusted information.

Carlos Areia, Kath Burton , Mike Taylor, Charles Watkinson
Published: April 16, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320334

Radically hopeful publishing practices

The Grant Writer’s Paradox (Journal of Electronic Publishing), 27 January 2025: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6017
Included in the Special Issue On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing. This issue is volume 28 issue 1 of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and is available here: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
The Revolution Must Be Published, “The Manifesto Issue”, Public Humanites, January 2025
- Cite: Fisher-Livne D, Burton K, Cocks C. The Revolution Must Be Published: Toward a Radically Inclusive Publishing Ecology. Public Humanities. 2025;1:e47. doi:10.1017/pub.2024.18
Publishing Values Based Scholarly Communication (OER), 2023
- Including rapid poster-presentation video ▶️

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7785-9604

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An illustrations depicting the collective process involved in creating a shared growing space, using items from gardening and emphasising a cycle of Pause, Shape, Make

A video of a poster presentation showing interconnected segments of an approach to values-based open humanities publishing.