28 Wednesday Sep 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
YouTube has changed its playlist page-code again today. If you want to see the “total playlist time” on a YouTube playlist, YouTube Playlist Time Length is now the working UserScript to use. Usage: load the playlist page, then reload it to see the total time.
20 Tuesday Sep 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
A useful note for magazine and journal editors who deal with those overseas. There appears to be a problem with mis-translation in translation services.
1. You send a request to a potential interviewee or contributor, perhaps in France.
2. You politely mention that your magazine or journal will have a “$5 cover-price”, and that it is not free, as something for the recipient to consider.
3. It seems that this phrase can be mis-translated as if a “cover-charge”, of the sort that you might encounter in a French restaurant. This being the price added just ‘to sit at the table’, without even ordering.
The risk is then that the speed-reading interviewee or contributor thinks they will be charged a small fee just to be in the magazine, which is not the case.
15 Thursday Sep 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
Problem: I recently had trouble getting a good PDF from a 200,000-word book. NitroPDF failed repeatedly, being very sluggish and crashing the Windows Print Spooler. And the type quality of a vanilla “Save to PDF” just was not good enough, and also randomly defaulted bits of text to bitmapping. Which messed up back-of-the-book index-building, as well as copy-paste.
Solution: the free Ghostscript Windows installer and the free CutePDF Writer (which requires Ghostscript). Install the open-source Ghostscript utility first, then CutePDF, so you don’t have any hassles caused by CutePDF’s installer needing to go online to get Ghostscript. No reboot is then required, the new printer driver is there straight away, and accessible from File | Print.
Lovely output… very fast (even though 32-bit)… great file-size… but… you then need to know how to get a 6″ x 9″ shaped save for the PDF. 6″ x 9″ inches is a most common paperback book size demanded by print-on-demand printers. And yet perversely it has no named paper-size that ships with printer software by default, for local Windows PDF printers to use. Getting 6″ x 9″ for CutePDF thus requires a bit of a workflow.
Workflow:
1. Windows Start Menu button | Control Panel | Devices and Printers.
2. Select the new CutePDF printer | Print Server Properties | Then set up and save a new 6″ x 9″ form, thus…
Yes it’s a gnarly setup, but you only have to do it once.
3. File | Print | CutePDF | Properties | Advanced | Set your newly created 6″ x 9″ setting | Also embed the fonts by switching to “Softfont”. For POD you may also want to set Postcript Options | Font Download | Native Truetype. OK.
4. Now you’re back in that initial CutePDF Print panel. Here there’s a further vital step. “Scale to Paper Size” | Then drag the drop-down list all the way down to the bottom | Just above the new “Postscript Custom” you see the even newer 6″ x 9″ setting | Select that.
5. OK. That should be it. Both 6″ x 9″ settings are live and aligned, and you should thus get a printed-to-file PDF that matches your 6″ x 9″ Word .DOC file.
To check the fonts embedded, have Acrobat (Reader or DC) open your PDF file. Go to File | Properties | Fonts tab. You’ll see the embedded fonts. Then check the selectability of the text, to see if anything went to bitmaps.
The only thing missing with the free CutePDF Writer is 40-bit encryption to prevent copy-paste or modification. Also, it has problems with handling semi-transparency from Microsoft Publisher.
13 Tuesday Sep 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
Below are the details of the only .ePUB reader software found by my tests to adequately support ‘fixed-layout + animated pictures’ with test files, on the Windows desktop.
Sure, a PC user is not necessarily going to read a whole magazine/book from a desktop monitor. But many researchers, editors etc need to consult or flick through a fixed .ePUB while at their desk. And have it look as intended, ideally in non-clunky freeware.
1. Thorium. The best and really the only viable choice for most people, though not the ideal “only choice” to foist on readers of a magazine. Well designed. Display of small type is not as good as that in Azardi. Works back to Windows 7. In slow but active development.
2. Azardi. Does the job quite well but has several problems: i) only supports fixed layout ePUB (can’t even load re-flowable ePUBs); ii) opens files with dimmed background/overlay for the pages every time, and needs to be manually adjusted back to normal brightness; iii) it triggered a delayed virus alert for me and was thus uninstalled. No longer developed since about 2016, works back to Windows 7. Free “for personal use only”, so institutions and businesses may be wary of being hit with licencing fees from whoever currently owns it.
3. Calibre. Free. Primarily used as a conversion software, but also has a reader and ebook manager. Feels and looks old, though it isn’t. It’s just clunky. Actively developed, and has now long been “Windows 10 only”.
There is also Sigil, the dedicated ePub editor. It appears to only preview the first page of an ePub, and as such is not also a Windows reader option for the desktop.
While the DTP software Adobe InDesign can preview a document destined for a fixed ePub, to ePub standards, it cannot then re-import this output and preview it again. Nor can QuarkXpress.
I could not find any Chrome browser extension that explicitly stated “fixed layout” support. The Microsoft Edge browser had this feature until a few years ago, but the feature was killed off. The old Readium extension for Chrome also went, because it could no longer support javascript.
Windows 10 and 11 desktop users who allow mobile-style “apps” from the Microsoft Store may perhaps find one or two ePub readers there, though they have not been tested here for ‘fixed-layout + animated picture’ support.
12 Monday Sep 2022
Posted in Spotted in the news
The new ePub-translate. A Python…
script to automatically translate an ePub using Google, AWS or DeepL API. It can output parallel text in columns.
As the guidance states, some tweaking for fit may be needed after translation. I assume it can handle fixed-layout ePubs, as well as the re-flowable sort.
09 Friday Sep 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news
Possibly useful for those making short educational screen-capture tutorials for online display or bundling alongside a .PDF file. As of February 2022 the excellent open-source freeware ScreenToGif Portable no longer requires clunky extra downloads, such as Microsoft .NET Framework or the infernal FFmpeg. Currently the 68Mb ScreenToGif.2.37.1.Portable.x64.zip is the download that most Windows people will want.
ScreenToGif can also output screen recordings to .APNG (animated PNG), which may help if your audience or environment is likely to have .GIF blockers installed. Simply manually rename to .PNG for upload to blogs etc. Web browsers will still recognise it as containing multiple frames, and play it (all major browser now support animated .PNGs). ScreenToGif can set the number of loops to show.
And, yes, there is javascript to ‘play, pause, continue’ an .aPNG on a Web page. So if you have multiple tutorial steps, the reader doesn’t have to see them all animating at once. Also look at another solution.
Or for a simple HTML solution, this works and does have them all play once (assuming one loop). Then it hands over control to the user in the form of “click to replay”.
Yes, you would add math.random here as a cache-buster, but using it appears to mess up the timings of the frames in the replay. The above works fine for reloading the same image on Chrome/Firefox-based browsers, and does not cause problems with frame slippage. You’re welcome.
Note that free WordPress blogs do not support the format, and the uploaded .PNG will there become a normal file that just shows the first frame of the animation. To host and run an animated .PNG file you need your own Web space.
Popular freeware viewers such as IrfanView can (since 2016) run animated .PNG files locally on your PC.
Sadly they can’t be embedded in PDF magazines, and still animate. They can in fixed layout ePubs, but the problem there is Windows. Basically, you have to force your readers to use Thorium, as that’s the only viable ‘fixed layout + animation’ reader choice on Windows desktops.
01 Thursday Sep 2022
Posted in Spotted in the news
Research & Reports Database – Cultural Placemaking. 61 PDF reports on ‘cultural placemaking’ (community arts orgs + local tourist board, usually). It’s a new library and will likely grow, and as such I daresay they’d welcome your submissions.
21 Sunday Aug 2022
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news
This may be useful for those who have to repetitively fill in a great many forms via a Web browser. A new browser UserScript today, for Multi paste…
Copy every word from the clipboard into multiple consecutive input fields
The copy-pasted clipboard data needs to be in simple comma-separated form. So I assume phrases or article titles would also work, if comma-separated. Those who do this sort of thing by hand, for a living, probably have better solutions. But it may be useful for someone with just 100 or so such actions to perform.
18 Thursday Aug 2022
Posted in Open Access publishing
Here’s a small study of the DOAB output, sourced from their ‘one .CSV to rule them all’ .CSV file. The titles in my new human-readable list below are 2022-published open access books in English. Book chapters were excluded.
The finding is slightly more than 500 whole-book titles in what I would call the “arts & humanities”, so far. Manually excluding books that creep into the category, with titles such as Dental Education. Suggesting a likely world output in English of 1,000 such OA books for 2022, and published in 2022.
Titles given twice have different URLs and are presumably multi-volume.
Architecture, advanced design:
Design Tools: A reflection towards the definition of a taxonomy
Artificial intelligence in the design process: The Impact on Creativity and Team Collaboration
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture: The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il Regno Digitale
Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical regionalism before globalisation
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture
Engaging Spaces: How to increase social awareness and human well-being through experience design
New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for Production
The Grid and the Park: Public Space and Urban Culture in Buenos Aires, 1887-1936.
Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
Co-curating the City: Universities and urban heritage past and future
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture
Cities After Crisis: Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up
Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies
Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid
Art history:
Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe
Art, history, and anachronic interventions since 1990
Preservation, conservation:
Optical Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage
Historical Wood: Structure, Properties and Conservation
Application of Materials Science in the Study of Cultural Heritage
Heritage politics, audience engagement:
Inconvenient Heritage: Colonial Collections and Restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium
Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
Practicing Decoloniality in Museums: A Guide with Global Examples
Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data
Hybrid Museum Experiences: Theory and Design
Engaged Humanities: Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life
Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online: Vikings in the Digital Age
Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change
Revisualising Intersectionality
Heritage Patterns: Representative Models
Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future
Realities, Challenges, Visions?: Towards a New Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy
Music, dance:
The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century
Music and Performance in the Book of Hours
Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism
The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence
Tuning up! The Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung
Views on Early Music as Representation: Invitations, Congruity, Performance
The Popular and the Sacred in Music
Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life
The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Authorship and Identity in Late Thirteenth-Century Motets
Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present
The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing Musically
Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s
Contemporary art, and community arts:
Broken Narrative: The Politics of Contemporary Art in Albania
Interpreting Art (art journalism)
Cultural Policy for Arts Education: African-European Practises and Perspectives
Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection
The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums: Staging Contemporary Art
Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narratives
Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
Theatre:
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
Forms of Emotion: Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Contemporary Performance
Postdramatic Dramaturgies: Resonances between Asia and Europe
Theatre and Its Other: Abhinavagupta on Dance and Dramatic Acting
Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe’s Duo
Managing Cultural Festivals: Tradition and Innovation in Europe
Whiteface: Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
Beyond Narrative: Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Cinema:
The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema
Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth
Malies Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris
War in Film: Semiotics and Conflict Related Sign Constructions on the Screen
Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press (Edition 1)
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
Precarity in European Film: Depictions and Discourses
Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria
Products:
Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury
Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
The Sharing Economy in Europe: Developments, Practices, and Contradictions
Media and communication:
Scale Matters: The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality
Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media
Television before TV: New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939
Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality
The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
Culture 2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society
Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
Making Media Matter: Critical Literacy, Popular Culture, and Creative Production
Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform
Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence
Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies
Mapping selfies and memes as Touch
Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies
Picturing the Invisible: Exploring interdisciplinary synergies from the arts and the sciences
Videogames, virtual reality, gamification, software:
Video Game Art Reader: Volume 4
Serious Games and Mixed Reality Applications for Healthcare
Virtual Reality Methods: A Guide for Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Game-Based Learning, Gamification in Education and Serious Games
Trends on Educational Gamification: Challenges and Learning Opportunities
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society
The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel: Being in Virtual Places
Anti-computing: Dissent and the machine
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces: Reading from Paper and Reading from Screens
Augmented Reality and Its Application
Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication
Forging Wargamers: A Framework for Professional Military Education
Archaeology:
Advances in East Asian Agricultural Origins Studies: The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition
Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain
Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory
Worked to the Bone: A Study of Gilded-Age Transatlantic Scientific Networks in Paleontology
Natural Sciences in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
Settling Waterscapes in Europe: The Archaeology of Neolithic & Bronze Age Pile-Dwellings
Classics, classical history, classical afterlives:
A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Mycenaean Pylos
Prometheus and the Liver: through Art and Medicine
Water Engineering in Ancient Societies
Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times
Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of ‘Cultural Messages’
Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics
Seneca’s Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honor of Margaret Mullett
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler’s Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East
Egypt and the Classical World: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Reading History in the Roman Empire
History:
A Short History of Transport in Japan: from Ancient Times to the Present
India in the Persian World of Letters: ḲhÄn-i Ä€rzÅ« among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists
Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China: Shaping the Expanse
Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956
Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present
World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge
The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Digital History and Hermeneutics: Between Theory and Practice
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
Collectio Mineralium: The catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II’s mineralogical collection
Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals: Concepts of Equality in History and Law
The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940
Peasant Wars in Bolivia: Making, Thinking, and Living the Revolution in Cochabamba, 1952-64
Reliability and Alliance Interdependence: The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969
Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century
The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy
The World’s First Full Press Freedom: The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773
(In)visible Acts of Resistance in the Twilight of the Franco Regime: A Historical Narration
Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness
Qarakhanid Roads to China: A History of Sino-Turkic Relations
The Straits Chinese Between Empires: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Malaya, c.1890-1920
‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)
Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (Edition 1)
Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China (Edition 1)
A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Thai Detente with Russia and China
The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing
Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line
Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession
Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia’s Honours System
Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific
War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II
Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements
Leaving Spain: A Biographical Study of an Economic Crisis and New Beginnings
European Roma: Lives beyond Stereotypes
Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences: The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Migration
Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945-1980
Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972
Memory Crash: Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s
June 1967 in Personal Stories of Palestinians and Israelis
Feeling Political: Emotions and Institutions since 1789
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960: Forgotten Livelihoods
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
Beyond the Pale: Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949
Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South
Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe
Empire’s Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia
Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925
The Mud and the Mirth: Marine Cartoonists in World War I
Creating the Modern Army: Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected writings
Policemen of the Tsar: Local Police in an Age of Upheaval
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
The Marana Community in the Hohokam World
White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua
Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
Navajo Multi-Household Social Units: Archaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona
Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond
Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatan Peninsula
In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC
Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia
Focus on Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being
Medieval and Early Modern:
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts: Case Studies from Ireland to Japan
The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society
Prometheus and the Liver: through Art and Medicine
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature
Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage
Lives in Transit in Early Modern England: Identity and Belonging
Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe: The Humanist Kingmaker
Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands: Exile and Redemption in Kampen
Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical Dimensions
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe
Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Mimbres during the Twelfth Century: Abandonment, Continuity, and Reorganization
Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698
Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire
Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe
Juvenes – The Middle Ages seen by Young Researchers: Vol. II – Space(s)
Emperors and Imperial Discourse in Italy, c. 1300-1500: New Perspectives
The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430-1540
Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches
Printing Spinoza: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century
The World’s First Full Press Freedom: The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773
Folklore, folk-magic, folk sayings:
The Boggart Sourcebook: Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring
In the borderland between song and speech: Vocal expressions in oral cultures
Nubian Proverbs (Fadijja/Mahas)
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500
History of literature:
William Sharp and ‘Fiona Macleod’: A Life
Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism
Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization
Literary Reimaginings of Argentina’s Independence: History, Fiction, Politics
Keep on Rolling Under the Stars: Green Readings on the Beat Generation
Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siecle
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Oscillating Bodies: Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork
Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain: Reading, translating and staging Milton in Communist Hungary
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History
Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020: Gendered Impressions
Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Book Artist
Contemporary literature:
Queer Rebels: Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels
Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition
Children’s literature:
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Youth cultures:
Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement
(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies: Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data
paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic (second expanded edition)
Religion:
Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience
Conflicts in Interreligious Education: Exploring Theory and Practice
A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism
Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society
The Liturgy in the Middle Ages
Reframing Roman Liturgy: A Critical Edition of Onofrio Panvinio’s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri
Religious Transformation in the Middle East: Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non Religion
Pilgrimage and Religious Mobilization in Europe
Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent
The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited
Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence
Jesuit Art: Brill’s Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
Abruptly Dogen: (Zen Buddhism)
Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem
Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem
Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism
Time and Soul: From Aristotle to St. Augustine
In Praise of Mortality: Christianity and New Humanism
Xinjiang Year Zero: (Chinese presectuion of minorities)
Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa:
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans: Retrospect and Prospect
Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections
A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal (1823-1874) and Modern Dravidian Sainthood
Hizmet in Transitions: European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement
Fethullah Galen’s Teaching and Practice: Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur’an, and Women’s Rights
Rethinking Islam in Europe: Contemporary Approaches in Islamic Religious Education and Theology
Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (Edition 1)
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans: Retrospect and Prospect
Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics
The Walking Dead at Saqqara: Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice
Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives
Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good
Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786-2021
Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Jain Ramayaata Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation
Caste and Equality in India: A Historical Anthropology of Diverse Society and Vernacular Democracy
Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress
Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
Muslims and humour: Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts
The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today
War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
Workplace Spirituality: Making a Difference
Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons
Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope
Linguistics:
Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics
Spaces of Communication: Elements of Semio-Pragmatics
Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish
Proto-Fula-Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes
Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation
What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice
Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of ‘Cultural Messages’
Multilingualism: Interdisciplinary Topics
Quranic Arabic: From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho
Nothing As We Need It: A Chimera
In the borderland between song and speech: Vocal expressions in oral cultures
A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement
Syntax in the Treetops: (Basque politeness)
Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork|Community|Change
Writing Systems and Their Use: An Overview of Grapholinguistics
Interests and Power in Language Management
Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice
Complexity in Second Language Study Emotions: Emergent Sensemaking in Social Context
Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States: Waves of Change
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft: Internationales Organ far Neuere Deutsche Literatur
Culture and Content in French: Frameworks for Innovative Curricula
A Grammar of Yala Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration
The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis
The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies
Translation:
Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media
Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic
Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans
Translation as Experimentalism: Exploring Play in Poetics
Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook
Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
In translation:
A Ming Confucian’s World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden
Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation (Edition 1)
The Ocean of Heroes: A Critical Edition, Translation
Travel writing, exploration:
Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing
Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road
The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889
Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery
The American Western in Canadian Literature
Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java: The Revised Prose Version of C.F. Winter Sr
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580-1615
Information:
Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe’s Past and Present
Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed.
The Diffusion and Social Implications of MOOCs: A Comparative Study of the USA and Europe
Digital Humanities:
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies: An Introduction
The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
Anti-computing: Dissent and the machine
Philosophy, ethics:
Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research
Ethical Evidence and Policymaking: Interdisciplinary and International Research
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography
The Romanian Sentiment of Being
Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body
Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation
The Philosophy and Psychology of Commitment
Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670-2020)
Models and Theories: A Philosophical Inquiry
Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric
The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3: On Causes and the Noetic Triad
Plotinus on Beauty: Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity
Kant and Artificial Intelligence
Newton’s Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity
Kant and Artificial Intelligence
A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
A Basic Theory of Everything: A Fundamental Theoretical Framework for Science and Philosophy
Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
The Philosophy of Online Manipulation
Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making
Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire
The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life
Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature
Autonomy and Equality: Relational Perspectives
Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and Difference
Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience
Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience
Oblivionism: Forgetting and Forgetfulness in Modern Science
These are thus 19% of the total OA/DOAB books in English so far released and published in 2022.
There appears to be no way to do this sort of list automatically. Ideally, the arts & humanities library profession would collectively fund a quarterly human-readable list of all new DOAB books, created manually from the .CSV and re-sorted under 24 or so broad subject categories — rather than (as at present) under thousands of precise but incredibly ‘bitty’ sub-categories. Such ‘bitty-ness’ is not conducive to serendipitous discovery.
15 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Academic search
The DOAB appears to show a total of 11 arts and humanities books in 2022. Here are the workings behind the initial figure.
The DOAB’s sidebar facets were used for the July test, rather than a crude keyword search.
a) Arts facet. Non-keyword search: Date Issued: [2020 TO 2023] × Subject: The arts
Two hits. No books listed as “2022”.
b) Humanities facet. Non-keyword search: Date Issued: [2020 TO 2023] × Subject: Humanities
This gave 198 titles. This result-set was small enough for me to manually skim through picking out suitable “2022” titles on new browser tabs, while excluding single chapters and the many mis-hits (e.g. “Dental Education”, General Education, Business, Health titles). I came up with a list of 11 book titles so far in 2022, and which fit inside what I consider to be the core “arts & humanities” fold:
Verwaltete Vielfalt: Die königlichen Tafelgüter in Polen-Litauen, 1697–1763.
Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia.
Realities, Challenges, Visions? Towards a New Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy.
Trends on Educational Gamification: Challenges and Learning Opportunities.
Game-Based Learning, Gamification in Education and Serious Games.
Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience.
Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization: Rational Idealism and the Structure of World History.
After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honor of Margaret Mullett.
In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC (a new history of the U.S. McCarthy trials).
Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone.
Monstrous Liminality: Or, The Uncanny Strangers of Secularized Modernity.
In contrast a simple search for keyword humanities gives many mis-hits, not least among the vast number of medical books. e.g. DOAB highlighting…
… humans. In this context, humanized mice transplanted with functional human cells.
The same results are had when using either humanities or “humanities” as a keyword.
But it turns out that searching either way is misleading. The two apparently top-level facets of ‘arts’ and ‘humanities’ are not giving the full story, since they are not acting as top-level “buckets”. To get the actual number for 2022 in English one must undertake the following…
1. Blank search. Publication Type: book × Date Issued: [2020 TO 2023] ×
2. Sort Date Issued: 2022 × Language: English × Publication Type: book ×
3. Now remove the wider [2020 TO 2023] facet, having now got access to the pure 2022 facet.
There are then 2,638 titles accessible in 2022 so far. This is ‘all books’ in 2022, and not all arts and humanities.
Drilling down from that set to a clean arts and humanities sub-set appears to be impossible, as things stand. There appears to be almost as may subject sub-facets as there are books…
One can’t use the .CSV export of results, as that appears to be capped at 500 rows. And the general RSS ‘feed for new titles’ appears limited to just four titles.
My guess would be that perhaps 400+ of the 2,638 titles for 2022 fall into what I would call “arts and humanities”, but one can’t get a clean de-duplicated list for such. If there is some arcane way to do it, then please let me know how.
Update: There are very slightly over 500 titles for 2022 to date, in English. To get at a precise number I undertook a study with the aid of the main .CSV file.
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