Modern Times: A Quick Note on Editorial and Peer Review Work in Accelerated Publish-or-Perish Academic Cultures

25/06/202025/06/2020 ~ Ernesto Priego

At The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, the most frequent query I receive is about the time it takes to get a decision and get published. I share here my position on article processing times in the journal.

Call for Papers – Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution

13/05/202020/05/2020 ~ Ernesto Priego

Special Collection CFP: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution: Deadline for submissions: June 2021

This was January-August 2019 at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

30/08/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

A listing of the articles we have published so far in 2019 in the journal (our 9th volume!) until the 30th of August 2019.

El extraño caso de los archivos reaparecidos / The Strange Case of the Reappeared Archives: Carta Abierta/Open Letter: Periódico de Poesía 2007-2018

31/01/201931/01/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

The undersigned request UNAM makes the complete archive of Periódico de Poesía (including all the issues published between 2007 and 2018, which are currently missing) openly available to the public again.

Documentary Film Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)

05/09/201805/09/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

We invite you to a free and public screening of the documentary film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (dir. and prod. Jason Schmitt, 2018) at City, University of London, on Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 17:30.

On Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor

25/07/201825/07/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier, a scholarly publisher and data analytics provider, has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe. You are invited to consider signing it too.

Presenting at Open Access in the Humanities, University of Ljubljana

18/05/201822/05/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego

I will be presenting at the event Open Access in the Humanities event that will take place at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana on 22 May 2018.

Hosting an Open Library of Humanities #EmpowOA Twitter Chat – Editing and Publishing as Academic Labour

22/03/201816/04/2018 ~ Ernesto Priego

On Friday 23 March 2018 at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT/3pm GMT/4pm CET for an @openlibhums #EmpowOA twitter chat hosted by yours truly on the issues of humanities, editing and publishing as academic labour.