Opportunities and Challenges of Open-Access Publishing: The Use Case of Campus Medius

Abstract

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. In this talk, the project head Simon Ganahl elaborates on the development of the website campusmedius.net from a historical case study to a mapping platform. The focus of the presentation will be on the use of open-source software and of Creative Commons licenses for research and scholarly publishing.

About Simon Ganahl

Simon Ganahl (Mag. DDr. phil.), born in 1981, researches and teaches at the University of Vienna as a literature and media scholar with a focus on digital humanities. He directs the digital mapping project Campus Medius (campusmedius.net) and edits the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Genealogy+Critique (genealogy-critique.net).