Digital Humanities Quarterly
Encyclopedia
Digital Humanities Quarterly is a peer-reviewed
open-access academic journal
covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication.
The journal is funded and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
and its editor-in-chief is Julia Flanders.
s to deliver journal content, publishing under a Creative Commons
license. It develops translation services and multilingual reviews in keeping with the international character of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
The journal aims to heighten the visibility and acceptance of digital humanities with reviews that are modeled on traditional book reviews but focus on digital projects, providing assessments of "software tools, sites, other kinds of innovations that need the same kind of critical scrutiny and benefit from the same kind of contextualizing review that a traditional book review offers."
Peer review
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open-access academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication.
The journal is funded and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, or ADHO, is a digital humanities umbrella organization formed in 2005 to coordinate the activities of the , the , and the .-History:...
and its editor-in-chief is Julia Flanders.
Editorial policy
Digital Humanities Quarterly has been noted among the "few interesting attempts to peer review born-digital scholarship." Having emerged from a desire to disseminate digital humanities practices to the wider arts and humanities community and beyond, the journal is committed to open access and open standardOpen standard
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed . There is no single definition and interpretations vary with usage....
s to deliver journal content, publishing under a Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
license. It develops translation services and multilingual reviews in keeping with the international character of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
The journal aims to heighten the visibility and acceptance of digital humanities with reviews that are modeled on traditional book reviews but focus on digital projects, providing assessments of "software tools, sites, other kinds of innovations that need the same kind of critical scrutiny and benefit from the same kind of contextualizing review that a traditional book review offers."