Academic Publishing in the Humanities

The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) is an alliance of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Together, they are pursuing the goal of creating and shaping an integrated research space in Berlin. This alliance aims to establish Berlin as a leading international science location. All workshops and events offered by the Graduate Studies Support Program are funded by the BUA and therefore free of charge.

 

Participation

Doctoral researchers of the Berlin University Alliance in the Human and Social Sciences.

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration. Please check our terms and conditions.

 

Objectives

 The aims of the workshop are:

•     Understand authorship and publishing
•     Develop a critical position towards legacy practices
•     Find your own publishing strategies vis-à-vis open science/humanities
•     Become resilient to publish or perish stress

 

Content

Authorship as the basic for academic careers and knowledge production (?)

•     Publish or perish: the publishing zeitgeist and its limits
•     Publishing brands, publishers and publishing genres
•     Publishing metrics (impact factor, h-index, altmetrics, and a million more)
•     New developments: preprints, open access, open science/humanities, open X
•     Science communication
•     Publishing strategies: writing against uncertain futures

 

Please note

For updates and announcemnets register to our DRS Newsletter.

Also check out workshops at the BUA partner institutions that are available for you free of charge: Graduate Studies Support Program.

For workshops held online, participation is allowed under the following conditions: a working camera that is turned on and a microphone to allow active participation in discussions and group work. Headphones must also be used to protect other participants from office eavesdroppers. In this context, we would also like to refer to the rules for digital courses at Freie Universität Berlin (Code of Conduct).

 

Further Information

Postdocs are welcome to participate if spots are available.