Guidelines on Publishing and Evaluating Innovative Outputs in Social Sciences and Humanities (2024)
The report is based on the analysis of the case studies illustrating various aspects of innovation in scholarly communication, such as two journals embracing new online publishing methods, a toolkit for knowledge sharing, and a metadata-driven book recommender. The report proposes guidelines pertinent to support for such outputs: Sustainability (transcending the constraints of funding cycles, Networking and visibility (reaching the audience and collaborators), Research assessment (recognition of the innovative outputs).
Recognising Digital Scholarly Outputs in the Humanities – ALLEA Report (2023)
This report underscores the transformative impact of digital practices on humanities scholarship. Drafted by the ALLEA Working Group E-Humanities, highlights the importance of recognising interdisciplinary work, innovative research methods, and non-traditional scholarly outputs. In the first part, the ALLEA Working Group E-Humanities addresses challenges in digital humanities, focusing on transparency in linking resources to publications, recognising updates as scholarly contributions, reevaluating authorship, fostering digital skills, and adjusting evaluation methods. The second section offers recommendations for assessing specific digital outputs like editions, databases, infographics, code, blogs, and podcasts. Each case study includes practical examples and suggested readings.
The Future of Scholarly Communication (2021)
This report discusses the scholarly communication issues in Social Sciences and Humanities that are relevant to the future development and functioning of OPERAS. The outcomes collected here can be divided into two groups of innovations regarding 1) the operation of OPERAS, and 2) its activities. The “operational” issues include the ways in which an innovative research infrastructure should be governed (Chapter 1) as well as the business models for open access publications in Social Sciences and Humanities (Chapter 2). The other group of issues is dedicated to strategic areas where OPERAS and its services may play an instrumental role in providing, enabling, or unlocking innovation: FAIR data (Chapter 3), bibliodiversity and multilingualism in scholarly communication (Chapter 4), the future of scholarly writing (Chapter 5), and quality assessment (Chapter 6). Each chapter provides an overview of the main findings and challenges with emphasis on recommendations for OPERAS and other stakeholders like e-infrastructures, publishers, SSH researchers, research performing organisations, policy makers, and funders. Links to data and further publications stemming from work concerning particular tasks are located at the end of each chapter.