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Item Digital Humanities Now(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2021) Cohen, Daniel; Takats, Sean; Buck, Brandon; Howlett, Dan; Meyer, Dana; Stinson, Kris; Swain, Greta; Walters Cooper, LaQuanda; Crossley, Laura; Bestebreurtje, Lindsey; Fragaszy Troyano, Joan; Hoffman, Sasha; Rhody, Lisa M.; Schneider, Benjamin; Wieringa, Jeri; Morton, Amanda; Regan, Amanda; Catalano, Joshua; Westcott, Stephanie; Fahringer, Alyssa Toby; Harnett, CaitlinDigital Humanities Now was an experimental, edited publication that highlighted and distributed informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Begun in November 2009, DHNow explored processes of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review to facilitate open and extend conversations about the digital humanities research and practice. DHNow was an experiment in contemporary scholarly communication practices, and served as a case study for the development of PressForward, a plugin for WordPress. DHNow aggregated potential content via RSS from a list of subscribed feeds, which included hundreds of venues where high-quality digital humanities scholarship was likely to appear, such as the personal websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, and other feeds—and was open for anyone to join. The project also sought out new material by monitoring Twitter and other social media for stories discussed by the community, and by continuously scanning the broader web through generalized and specialized search engines. Editors-at-Large also directly nominated content from their own networks. The aggregated material was reviewed, nominated, and discussed directly in the site’s WordPress installation using the PressForward plugin. Each week volunteer Editors-at-Large used the plugin to survey the incoming content from both subscribed feeds and their own networks and nominate content for broader dissemination through DHNow. Next, a rotating Editor-in-Chief selected content for publication on DHNow. The site manager then created a brief post on DHNow, linking back to the original content in order to direct attention, conversation, and site hits to the creator.Item Journal of Digital Humanities(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2015) Rhody, Lisa; Troyano, Joan Fragaszy; Westcott, Stephanie; Morton, Amanda; Reagan, Amanda; Schneider, Benjamin; Hoffman, Sasha; Wieringa, Jeri; Bestebreurtje, Lindsey; Cohen, DanThe Journal of Digital Humanities, or JDH, was a peer-reviewed, open access journal created as an experiment in scholarly communication on the open web. In conjunction with Digital Humanities Now, it served as a critical case study for the PressForward project and was funded by the first PressForward grant (2011-2014) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The journal, a WordPress site, was made up of works selected as Editors’ Choice on Digital Humanities Now. Authors of the best and most influential Editors’ Choice pieces from the previous quarter, as measured by interest, transmission, and response, were invited to revise and expand their pieces for publication in the journal. New work was sometimes solicited, particularly reviews of digital tools and projects, to promote peer review of non-traditional scholarship often not covered by other publications. Prior to publication, the digital humanities community was invited to participate in open peer review of items selected for the journal. The journal published six issues between winter 2011 and spring 2014 before going on indefinite hiatus. As an experimental in-house publication, JDH accomplished the goal of generating insight into the digital publishing process, which became critical as PressForward worked to launch similar publications with a wide range of partner organizations during its second (2014-2015) and third (2015-2018) phases. Hosted at journalofdigitalhumanities.org.