We are pleased to present this recent scholarship, published by Greenhouse Studios team members Clarissa J. Ceglio, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Sara Sikes, from the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press). Abstract Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn is a shared venture of the School of Fine Arts, […]
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Charles V|R Selected as Charleston Library Conference Fast Pitch Finalist
“The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, […]
Collaboration and Emergent Knowledge at Greenhouse Studios
Since the 1970s, scholars in fields as varied as sedimentology, ornithology, sociology, and philosophy have come to understand the importance of self-organizing systems, of how higher-order complexity can “emerge” from independent lower-order elements. Emergence describes how millions of tiny mud cracks at the bottom of a dry lake bed form large scale geometries when viewed […]
Creativity and the Scholarly Record
At Greenhouse Studios, we are working out the process of creating new forms of scholarship. One important aspect of what differentiates scholarship from projects is sustainability. As I like to say, there is no scholarship without persistence. The infrastructure of persistence is well understood in traditional academic publishing, but is less understood in the world […]
The Understand Phase Explained
When people ask me about what we do at Greenhouse Studios, it is challenging to distill all of its ambitions into a easily digestible tidbit. Ultimately, we are attempting to change the way scholarship is produced. As a result, many of Greenhouse Studios’ features are responsive to the limitations of mainstream academic practice. In this […]
Greenhouse Studios Supports Open Data at Hartford Public Library
Greenhouse Studios members are actively involved in the larger issues facing scholarly communications outside of our research. On the brisk morning of October 26th, I gathered with several other presenters mostly representing UConn at the Hartford Public Library to showcase projects that benefit from—or contribute to making available—openly and freely accessible data. This event, Open […]
Greenhouse Studios’ First Projects Grapple with The Limits of Text
Greenhouse Studios, a new research unit at the University of Connecticut, is beginning implementation of a collaboration-first approach for the creation and communication of scholarship thanks to a $789,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award is the first of its kind at UConn and part of the Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications program, […]