Author: Françoise Gouzi Reviewers: Carol Delmazo Innovation in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) often defies conventional academic evaluation. Groundbreaking digital tools, dynamic research outputs, and novel methodologies are shaping the future of scholarship—yet, outdated assessment methods fail to capture their true impact. In response, the OPERAS Innovation Lab team took a bold step … Continue reading A New Approach to Evaluating Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities
Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment
Key Insights from the OPERAS Innovation Lab Workshop in Zadar (OPERAS Conference, April 2024) Authors and contributors: Magdalena Wnuk, Maciej Maryl, Elena Sokolova, Françoise Gouzi, Ronald Snijder, Tomasz Umerle Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Frank Manista In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, innovators in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) often grapple with fundamental questions: How … Continue reading Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment
When innovation precedes change
Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena WnukReviewers: Karla Avanço, Françoise Gouzi According to Joseph Schumpeter, innovation is more than just a buzzword—it’s the tangible realization of ideas that leads to fresh or enhanced products, services, and processes. But innovation isn’t a solitary endeavour. It begins with the creators themselves, who forge ahead with their vision. Only afterwards … Continue reading When innovation precedes change
Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication
Author: Magdalena WnukReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger Small, independent projects, tools or services deal with sustainability challenges different from those faced by large research infrastructures. What they lack is a stable, relatively modest funding, that would be sufficient to hire someone who will responsibly maintain and update the output (tool or service), as well as … Continue reading Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication
DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model
Author: Françoise GouziReviewers: Elena Giglia, Sy Holsinger, Tomasz Umerle The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is building an overlay journal, and has chosen Episciences platform for this project (application currently in progress). Episciences is a French public publishing platform provided by one of DARIAH’s French partner institutions, the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD). It will help … Continue reading DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model
How to evaluate innovation in the humanities?
Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena Wnuk The OPERAS’ Lab Observatory sheds light on the innovative technological projects aimed at communicating research results in an untraditional way. The discussion over the needs of such projects is both interesting and inspiring, particularly the requirement of evaluation criteria. The ALLEA report on digital scholarly outputs gives us some useful … Continue reading How to evaluate innovation in the humanities?
Cool tools for open access books
Authors: Ronald SnijderReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger As you may know, the OAPEN Foundation manages two platforms to distribute open access books and chapters: the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Both platforms have thrived for over a decade, experiencing substantial growth in their respective collections. As of November 2023, the collection of … Continue reading Cool tools for open access books