Much effort has been expended in the field of open access publishing, especially open access journal publishing, to establish that open access can still be peer reviewed and scholarly.

But should online academic journals – especially new efforts – always follow a model established in the world of print, that is volume, issue, table of contents, article?

Can/should we break free from this pattern without losing effective, accepted (for RPT, etc.) peer-review; and still be seen as ‘serious’ publishing, not ‘just’ another blog?

In the Humanities especially, what formats or platforms can we envision that support not only the dissemination of research findings (i.e. through traditional peer-reviewed papers and reports) but also directly support the research itself?

My goal would be to have an interesting conversation, not necessarily to arrive at answers.

Technology can be intimidating.  Usually unnecessarily so.  Is the best way for folks in the digital humanities to get past this to learn to code?  Is this an unreasonable, unnecessary and even counter-productive expectation or an acknowledgement of what it takes to fully engage in technology?  As a coder and a librarian I’ll present both sides of the argument and hope it stimulates lively, maybe even uncomfortable, discussion.