The Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing institute introduces scholars, many of whom are from historically Black and other minority-serving institutions, to best practices in online scholarly publishing.
Fifteen humanities scholars from across the nation gathered in Brown University’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library this week with a shared mission: Explore best practices for authoring and publishing a first-rate, digital-first monograph and leave with the skills to create their own.
While the focus of the workshop was shared by all participants, the topics they hope to explore in their monographs were wide-ranging — everything from U.S. National Parks ephemera to the presence of Negro leagues’ in American baseball history, to the war-related displacement of a wild seed bank in Syria.