While vacillating between a sense of hope and dread as I considered the amount of energy it would take to transition a conference paper to a full article, I started building a list in my head of the various open access publishing outlets I might seek out that straddle the line between libraries and Digital Humanities. Foundering, I issued a clarion call on Twitter and the DH Slack to expand that list and the below resulted.
Overall I think it’s a good start. Would welcome further suggestions in the comments. Non-English, non-U.S./CAN suggestions highly encouraged.
En una sociedad como la actual, que demanda cada vez más información, nace ArtyHum, un proyecto cultural por y para el estudio, la difusión y la investigación del Arte y las Humanidades.
Caracteres: Estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital
El objetivo principal de la revista Caracteres es desarrollar los estudios en torno a las Humanidades Digitales mediante la publicación de trabajos originales e inéditos. La revista incluye también una sección de reseñas y otra orientada a la publicación de artículos divulgativos abierta a diferentes tipos de propuestas.
The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.
Cultural Analytics is a new open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture. Its aim is to promote high quality scholarship that intervenes in contemporary debates about the study of culture using computational and quantitative methods. Articles are expected to combine theoretical sophistication, computational expertise, and grounding in a particular field towards the crafting of novel, thought-provoking arguments. In combining the very best of the humanities and the social and computational sciences, Cultural Analytics aims to challenge disciplinary boundaries and serve as the foundational publishing venue of a major new intellectual movement.
D-Lib Magazine is an electronic publication with a focus on digital library research and development, including new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. D-Lib Magazine appeals to a broad technical and professional audience. The primary goal of the magazine is timely and efficient information exchange for the digital library community to help digital libraries be a broad interdisciplinary field, and not a set of specialties that know little of each other.
DHCommons attempts to meet a long-standing but growing need in the DH community for robust peer review of in progress—that is, beyond the planning stages—but still developing projects.
Welcome to Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities.
Digital Literary Studies is an international peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication with a focus on those aspects of Digital Humanities primarily concerned with literary studies. Digital Literary Studies publishes scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources.
Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities.
Digithum applies a relational perspective on the analysis of our subjective experiences, our social bonds and our cultural heritage. These objects of study can be approached and studied from different disciplines: sociological/social theory, historical sociology, sociology of culture and sociology of emotions, cultural theory, film theory, media studies, arts, and humanities. We are furthermore particularly interested in their dialogue. Each issue of this journal will focus upon a particular question or theme that we will announce in due time in a call for papers, however they will all be connected to the axial questions of the various ways in which we can analyse, understand and explain the individual and collective forms of creating and feeling part of society and its cultural processes from a relational perspective, focussing on the relational bonds which we weave between one another and which establish us within our society, as members in a specific place.
Hybrid Pedagogy is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education; avoids valorizing educational technology, but seeks to interrogate and investigate technological tools to determine their most progressive applications; invites you to an ongoing discussion that is networked and participant-driven, to an open peer reviewed journal that is both academic and collective.
First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals solely devoted to research about the Internet.
Frontiers in Digital Humanities
Frontiers in Digital Humanities publishes articles on the most outstanding discoveries in all the research areas where computer science and the humanities intersect, with the aim to bring all relevant Digital Humanities areas together on a single, open-access platform.
Human IT: Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science
Human IT is a multi-disciplinary and scholarly journal with the goal of bringing forth new research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. The journal is closely aligned with the new field of digital humanities. We welcome contributions from the humanities, the social, behavioural, and natural sciences, as well as technology.
International Journal of Digital Curation
The IJDC is entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on curation of digital objects and related issues.
JANUS. Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro.
Resultados de investigación relacionados con la Literatura Española de los siglos XVI y XVII desde perspectivas multidisciplinares, Colaboraciones sobre distintos aspectos de la Literatura y la cultura española, europea e hispanoamericana de la Edad Moderna, especialmente los relacionados con los campos de estudio del SIELAE: Emblemática, Relaciones de Sucesos, Enciclopedias renacentistas (Polianteas) e Inventarios y Bibliotecas de los siglos de Oro, Trabajos del campo comunmente denominado Humanidades Digitales (también designado bajo los marbetes: Informática Humanística, Humanidades e Informática) que se corresponde con los términos en inglés Humanities Computing o Digital Humanities.
Journal of Electronic Publishing
The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is an open access journal that publishes research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users.
Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
We are happy to announce the release of the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities (JJADH). The Japanese Association of Digital Humanities was founded in 2011, becoming a constituent organization of ADHO in 2013. While Digital Humanities has been practiced in Japan for more than two decades, up to now, little is known outside of Japan regarding the content of Japan advancements in this field. We therefore aim to rectify this situation by initiating a first-tier peer reviewed international journal published in English. Although we hope to be able to shed light on projects in developments in Japan, we will be accepting article submissions from DH practitioners around the world on a broad range of topics.
Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing three issues each year. JRMDC publishes original work that considers any aspect of the relationship between religion and digital media. Published articles should contribute new insights to debates in the social sciences or digital humanities. Studies of any religious tradition are welcomed.
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
The mission of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ISSN 2166-6245) is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the “common Stock of Knowledge.” . . . JLSC is particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation.
Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The Journal of Open Archaeology Data (JOAD) features peer reviewed data papers describing archaeology datasets with high reuse potential.
Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) features peer reviewed publications describing humanities data or techniques with high potential for reuse.
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies
KULA is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, encouraging the formation of a multi-disciplinary community of scholars studying human knowledge processes through the ages, understanding their role in human civilizations, and projecting them into the future from both humanistic and technological perspectives.
Lever Press [books]
Lever Press, a publisher of open access, digitally native, peer-reviewed scholarly monographs, is now welcoming proposals from authors. Established by the libraries of more than forty sponsoring liberal arts colleges, and guided by an Editorial Board of distinguished scholars from our sponsoring institutions, Lever Press is committed to the proposition that the publication of excellent work should not be made subject to the ability of authors, or their institutions, to pay a publishing fee.
Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals
Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals (ISSN 2386-8295) is an open-accessed, double-blind peer-reviewed yearbook on medieval culture and literature, as well as on digital humanities for the use of medievalists. Our journal accepts works in numerous languages, and especially (but not exclusively) favours articles of an extension longer than the usual standard –hence the name. It is because of this factor that we publish a limited number of articles per volume.
La revista Palabra Clave es un espacio para la difusión de nuevo conocimiento como resultado de la investigación y la reflexión sobre temas vinculados con la comunicación y su relación con la sociedad. El contenido tiene un enfoque científico, analítico y crítico, soportado en el humanismo y con claros aportes al desarrollo y a la solución, desde la comunicación, de los problemas de la sociedad.
Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions [forum]
Welcome to Parameters, an online forum from the Council’s Digital Culture program meant to address a complex, persistent question at the heart of social science research: how does (and, ultimately, should) the production and distribution of knowledge change under digital conditions? Parameters is intended to showcase wide-ranging, even conflicting perspectives on this issue, amplifying voices of scholars and researchers, teachers and publishers, librarians and archivists, as they reflect on how their work changes—and doesn’t change—even as the modes through which knowledge is collected, shared, analyzed, and interpreted continue to be informed and influenced by computational methods, platforms, and tools. At the same time, this space is meant to offer opportunities to reflect on, appreciate, and—perhaps most importantly—critique the digital conditions under which scholarship now operates.
punctum books [books]
punctum books is an open-access and print-on-demand independent publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. We specialize in neo-traditional and non-conventional scholarly work that productively twists and/or ignores academic norms, with an emphasis on books that fall length-wise between the article and the monograph—id est, novellas, in one sense or another. We also take in strays. This is a space for the imp-orphans of your thought and pen, an ale-serving church for little vagabonds.
Red de Humanidades Digitales de México [forum]
El blog de Humanidades Digitales es una herramienta de la Red HD cuyo objetivo general es publicar información referente al mundo de las Humanidades Digitales. El blog Humanidades Digitales nace con la finalidad de agilizar la publicación de temas relacionados con las Humanidades Digitales. Asimismo, el blog puede aportar beneficios para la difusión e intercambio de las Humanidades Digitales. Además es una herramienta, no necesariamente de corte académico, que facilita el intercambio de ideas entre los neófitos y los más experimentados del mundo de las HD. Para la Red HD y su blog Humanidades Digitales es una gran experiencia compartir y reunir por este medio a cualquier persona interesada en difundir algo que enriquezca el mundo de las Humanidades Digitales.
Scholarly and Research Communication
Scholarly and Research Communication is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, Open Access, online journal that publishes original contributions to the understanding of production, dissemination, and usage of knowledge. It emphasizes the dynamics of representation and changing organizational elements, including technologically mediated workflows, ownership, and legal structures.
Scriptum Digital es una revista electrónica de acceso libre en la red dedicada a difundir investigación de calidad sobre aspectos teóricos y metodológicos relacionados con la edición digital y los corpus diacrónicos informatizados en las lenguas iberorrománicas (desarrollo informático de bases de datos textuales, diseño y explotación de corpus, aspectos filológicos del diseño de corpus y de la edición digital, estudios lingüísticos basados en corpus, etc.). La revista no favorece ninguna corriente teórica o metodológica en particular.
sx archipelagos is the latest born-digital articulation of the Small Axe Project. It is a peer-reviewed publication platform devoted to creative exploration, debate, and critical thinking about and through digital practices in contemporary scholarly and artistic work in and on the Caribbean.
Virtualis es una publicación semestral, especializada en el estudio de los fenómenos comunicativos de la sociedad de la información y del conocimiento. Desde las ciencias sociales, busca ponderar con rigor científico las visiones, a veces en tensión, que sobre la Sociedad de la Información y del conocimiento se erigen, la proveniente del mercado y las ideas innovadoras y por el otro, las que hacen énfasis en realidades palpables como la desigualdad y la brecha tecnológica. Virtualis busca asimismo promover la reflexión sobre las nuevas formas de expresión artística y de apropiación cultural de los nuevos medios de comunicación y su gran variedad de aplicaciones.
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
Die Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften ist ein innovatives Forschungsperiodikum, das sich Themen an der Schnittstelle von geisteswissenschaftlicher und digitaler Forschung widmet. Adaptionen von Informatik und Informationswissenschaft eröffnen der Gesamtheit der Geisteswissenschaften neue Wege der Wissenserschließung, tragen zur Etablierung neuer Forschungsansätze bei und liefern neue Möglichkeiten der Auf- und Nachbereitung von Quellen, Dokumenten, Daten und Medien.
Hi there,
Have you spent much time browsing through doaj.org? It’s a pretty good resource when looking for Open Access journals.
Great suggestion! *off to digging*
Have a look at the new OA interdisciplinary journal KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies.
Indeed, included above!
It would be useful if you could enhance this survey by adding information about what sort of outputs these outlets cater for. Are they all for traditional text publications, or do any of them allow enhanced publication, or data publication?
Hi Martin, great suggestions. Will definitely take these into account as this effort is transitioned out of the blog to a larger, multilingual effort.
“Human IT” (at https://humanit.hb.se/index) is an online OA peer-reviewed DH journal published by the dep’t of library and information science at the uni of Borås, Sweden. It publishes articles in English as well as in the Scandinavian languages. It has been around since 1997.
Hi Mats, thanks for the suggestion its been added!
Archive Journal (archivejournal.net)!