27.3952, FYI: Open Handbooks in Linguistics Initiative

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Subject: 27.3952, FYI: Open Handbooks in Linguistics Initiative

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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:41:01
From: Heidi Harley [hharley at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Open Handbooks in Linguistics Initiative

 Dear colleagues,

We are extremely pleased to announce the formation of an editorial board for
the new series Open Handbooks in Linguistics. We are committed to creating a
high-quality venue for the publication of linguistics handbooks that is
completely open access. We consider the open access publishing model to be
especially important for handbooks for the following reasons:

- Handbooks can represent a significant benefit to scholars around the world
with limited or no access to commercial publishers' book products, since they
summarize current research in a compact and organized fashion.
- Commercial publishers in our field are producing many more handbooks than in
the past, since they represent a significant profit opportunity. Many
linguist-hours are being poured into these volumes, but their focus and
direction is being at least partly driven by publishers' goals, rather than by
the field's needs. 
-  Open exchange of ideas is essential to the advancement of science, and open
access to our research products is therefore a key priority for our field, as
for all scientific work. 

This initiative developed from a dramatic outpouring of responses to a casual
Facebook post. We intend to capitalize on this grass-roots enthusiasm by
creating this series in a yet-to-be-determined publication venue. We will
curate handbooks which provide insightful review and analysis of current
trends in our field, authored by leading scholars from all corners of the
discipline. 

The volumes will be accessible to anyone with an internet connection.  

Membership in the editorial board is currently limited to professors at the
'full' rank. Colleagues at that rank who are interested in supporting this
initiative, particularly from institutions and subfields that are
underrepresented in this initial list, are invited to contact Heidi Harley,
hharley at email.arizona.edu.  

Stay up to date with developments in the series by following our blog,
http://openlinguisticshandbooks.blogspot.com/.

Editorial board members to date:

David Adger, Queen Mary University
Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University Berlin
Tor A Åfarli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona
Peter Austin, SOAS University of London
Tista Bagchi, University of Delhi
Eric Bakovic, University of California San Diego
Balthasar Bickel, University of Zurich
Roberta D'Alessandro, Leiden University
Hana Filip, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus
Michael Hammond, University of Arizona
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute-SSH Jena and Leipzig University
Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Simin Karimi, University of Arizona
Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland
Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
Terje Lohndal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology/UiT The Arctic
University of Norway
Diane Massam, University of Toronto
Jason Merchant, University of Chicago
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/University of Tokyo
Stefan Müller, Freie Universität Berlin
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Universität zu Koln
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Norvin Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johan Rooryck, Leiden University
Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin Madison
Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences
Natasha Warner, University of Arizona
Tony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin

Note: Our initial group consists of volunteers we reached initially on social
media, which is very limited in its reach. Interested colleagues who are
learning of this initiative for the first time via this announcement are MORE
than welcome to write to me to volunteer. The only constraint is that
volunteers should have the rank of Professor, at this initial stage of
development.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics



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