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A Few Reflections on the TOME Initiative

WASHINGTON, DC - Today a group of colleagues from the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses met to advance the Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative. It…

Christopher LongJuly 31, 2018

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Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Humanities Commons and the Cultivation of Sustainable Communities

As we navigate the intense period of transformation in human communication through which we are living, identifying ways to nurture sustainable communities through which scholarship can be shared, discovered, and enhanced gains urgency. So many…

Christopher LongNovember 29, 2017

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Digital Humanities The Administrative Life The Long Road

Critical Diversity in a Digital Age

Last year we developed a strategic plan in the College of Arts & Letters that called for a cluster hire in culturally engaged digital humanities that focuses on humanities questions of race, inclusion, cultural preservation,…

Christopher LongOctober 31, 2016

Digital Scholarship Education

Nurturing Fulfilling Scholarly Lives

In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, there is a famous passage in which he reminds us that “to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day;…

Christopher LongOctober 14, 2016

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Investing in Humanities Publishing

To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect when I arrived at the headquarters of the Association of American Universities in Washington, D.C. early last week to take part in a discussion about a…

Christopher LongAugust 8, 2016

Digital Scholarship The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

Collaborative Philosophy

The fog had receded when Danielle, Anne Marie, and Lisa moved out onto the back porch of the Inn at the Presidio to continue writing. I could hear their heated conversation unfolding below my second…

Christopher LongJune 14, 2015

Digital Dialogue Podcast The Public Philosophy Journal

Digital Dialogue 73: Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop 2015

We held the first Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop at the Inn at the Presidio this to facilitate the work of five collaborative projects. On episode 73 of the Digital Dialogue, each collaborative writing team joins me…

Christopher LongJune 12, 2015

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The @PubPhilJ Paradigm

At Bucknell's Digital Scholarship Conference last fall, Zeynep Tufekci made a compelling case for public academic writing. Her keynote address, Researching Out Loud: Public Scholarship as a Process of Publishing Before and After Publishing, argued…

Christopher LongJanuary 25, 2015

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Coffee, Smart Phones, and Open Access in the Humanities

@cplong: Advocacy for Open Access in the humanities is gaining momentum. I myself have committed to reviewing articles for Open Access journals and am working with colleagues to develop a new model of open access…

Christopher LongDecember 14, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

Thick Collegiality

The Public Philosophy Journal project has been animated from the beginning by the attempt to cultivate excellent habits of scholarly communication in a digital age. To do so will require finding ways to develop thick…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Committing to Open Access

Recently I was asked by the editors of a journal whose mission and scholarship I support and respect to review a book by a scholar I very much admire. In the past, I would have…

Christopher LongOctober 19, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Live-Tweeting Bernstein's Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism

Among its many affordances, Twitter can be a powerful public note taking tool. At the end of a rich and exhausting conference celebrating the work and teaching of Richard J. Bernstein, I used Twitter to…

Christopher LongSeptember 28, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Adventures in Open Access: Plato's Dogs, Unleashed

It was paragraph three, section b) of the Contributor Publishing Agreement from Indiana University Press that gave me pause. In it I read that I would not be permitted to post the final published version…

Christopher LongAugust 13, 2014

Presentations The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal at #DH2014

In this poster session, we present the project of the Public Philosophy Journal and our plans for cultivating a community of engaged scholars to sustain it. At the session, we explain our motivations for designing…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Toward an Ethics of Philosophy in a Digital Age

To honor the work of Richard Bernstein and specifically his influence as a teacher at the New School for Social Research, Marcia Morgan and Jonathan Pickle invited a group of his former students to write…

Christopher LongJuly 6, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Seeding Publics from a World of Readers

In his own essay on Kant's "What is Enlightenment?," Foucault ascribes to Baudelaire a modern attitude that captures well the spirit of Kant's public essay on enlightenment. For Baudelaire, according to Foucault, modernity is "an…

Christopher LongJune 4, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

The Most Innocuous Freedom, Everywhere in Chains

In his famous 1784 essay, What is Enlightenment?, Kant identifies the activity of enlightenment with a certain way of being public. This post considers that essay as a performance of public philosophy, arguing that in…

Christopher LongMay 10, 2014

Digital Humanities The Long Road

A Long Day of DH 2014

Today is the Day of Digital Humanities 2014, an open community publication project designed to document digital humanities practices around the world. Throughout the day I will be posting content related to various facets of…

Christopher LongApril 8, 2014

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

To Be Published or To Be Read

To be published or to be read, that is the question scholars increasingly face. Although publications with reputable university presses or journals continue to be the cornerstone of the tenure and promotion process, many remain…

Christopher LongMarch 19, 2014

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Public Writing

This experiment in academic public writing began with a compliment. In a Twitter conversation with @ProfessMoravec, I came across her Rationale for Academic Writing in Public in which she discusses how and why she has…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

Public Digital Scholarship: The @PubPhilJ at the #APAEastern

This presentation on the Public Philosophy Journal, invited by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy, provides an update on the status of the development of the open access, open peer review journal. However difficult it…

Christopher LongDecember 29, 2013

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The Peer Review Coordinator and the Collegiality Index

As we sought to map out the design and functionality of the PPJ with colleagues at Matrix a few weeks ago, we began to suggest how a disciplinary economy of an open peer review might be navigated…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 2013

Digital Dialogue Podcast The Public Philosophy Journal

Digital Dialogue 68: Building the PPJ

During our first planning trip to Matrix at Michigan State to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher and I sat down to talk with Ethan Watrall and Bill Hart-Davidson about creating the journal as…

Christopher LongNovember 20, 2013

The Long Road The Public Philosophy Journal

The Disciplinary Economy of Open Peer Review

There seems to be widespread skepticism that peer review without anonymity can be both rigorous and fair. This post thinks through the dynamics of an open peer review process and suggests that both rigor and…

Christopher LongNovember 18, 2013

Digital Humanities Presentation: Academic Vita

Performative Publication in a Digital Age

New affordances in dynamic modes of digital scholarly communication have enabled authors to tailor the content of our texts to the forms in which they appear in public. This presentation focuses on two performative publication…

Christopher LongAugust 14, 2013

Digital Research The Long Road

The Digital Research Circle Completed

In April 2010, I began blogging about closing the digital research circle. The iPad had just been released and I had just moved from Endnote to Zotero to take advantage of its ability to share…

Christopher LongAugust 8, 2013

Books Digital Humanities The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Evolving Book: Introduction

As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…

Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013

Academic Digital Humanities The Long Road

Cultivating the Virtues of DH

Last week humanities scholars from around the world descended upon Lincoln, Nebraska for DH2013, the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. It was my first time at the DH conference and…

Christopher LongJuly 26, 2013

Digital Humanities The Long Road

Performative Publication

New affordances in dynamic modes of digital scholarly communication have enabled authors to tailor the content of our texts to the forms in which they appear in public. The diversity of ways it is now…

Christopher LongJuly 19, 2013

Digital Research The Long Road

Research Cycle Returns to Zotero

Even as I press to finish an article on dogs and wolves in Plato's Republic for a volume entitled "Plato's Animals" edited by Michael Naas, it is worth returning for a moment to our ongoing…

Christopher LongDecember 31, 2012

Digital Research The Long Road

Sente, Mendeley, Zotero: Too Many Sharp Tools

As spring rolls into summer, it is time for another appraisal of my digital research ecosystem. For a brief history of my reflections on digital scholarly research, I invite you to take a ride on…

Christopher LongJune 5, 2012

Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Summer Research in Digital

This summer John Dolan, Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy, and I are heading up a summer digital research project in the College of the Liberal Arts. For a description of the project, check out…

Christopher LongMay 19, 2011

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Evolving Digital Research Ecosystem

Final Edits Originally uploaded by cplong11 In the months since my last posts on using Mendeley, Zotero and the iPad for academic research, my experience has been more fully informed by practice. This fall I was…

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2010

Digital Research Education Technology The Long Road

Mendeley on the iPhone

Mendeley on the iPhone Originally uploaded by cplong11 I am happy to report that Mendeley has developed an iPhone app that brings us a step closer to the digital research model I hope to implement…

Christopher LongJuly 20, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Integrating Mendeley into the Research Circle

It seems that my quest to close the digital research circle has been joined by a few fellow researchers. The idea is compelling and would not only save both time and paper, but would offer new…

Christopher LongJune 3, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Zotero, the iPad and Summer Research

Last month in a post about closing the digital research circle, I wrote about using the iPad to read, take notes on pdf files and integrate those files into a bibliography program. We are still…

Christopher LongMay 21, 2010

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Closing the Digital Research Circle

I have been looking for a way to close the circle of my digital academic research. The idea is to do rigorous philosophical research without paper, taking full advantage of cloud computing, the syncing of…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2010

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