The Elephant Roundup (January 2023)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Communications
Jill O’Neill, Books Are For Use and What That Means, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), December 6, 2022.
Engaging the Past: Curating “A Monumental Weight” at the Fredericksburg Area Museum
Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Public historians specialize in translating academic research for nonspecialists, providing models and inspiration for other scholars looking to convey the value of their work in understanding contemporary social issues. In this post, curator Gaila Sims describes creating an exhibit about slavery at a museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
2022: The Elephant in Review
Post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications Editorial Team.
As another year draws to a close, the Feeding the Elephant editorial team is reflecting on all that we learned this year from university press business models to tips for working with your editor to reviews of new books on scholarly communications.
Multimodal Digital Monographs: An Interview with Allison Levy and Sarah McKee
Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
In this interview, Emory University’s Sarah McKee and Brown University’s Allison Levy share insights from their work publishing digital multimedia scholarship.
Re: An Anti-Racist Reviewing Heuristic
Thanks for these insightful guidelines, which could potentially help minimize all forms of bias, including ableism. My writing has sometimes been criticized for traits which stem from my MS-induced neurodivergence. Although the anonymous reviewers were (presumably) unaware of my disabilities, such criticisms nonetheless struck me as ableist insofar as they targeted ways that my brain functions differently. The heuristic is a powerful way to encourage reviewers to be more accepting of diverse forms of self-expression, prose style, and structure.
