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Hi all,

Please join us in welcoming Qwelian Tanner, who will be joining the KFG team as a software engineer focusing on PubPub! We're thrilled to be growing the team and to have Qwelian's expertise and natural curiosity as part of our process in turning your good ideas and formative feedback into PubPub reality. 

We'll also note that each month in this newsletter we ask that you share your community news with us—and we mean it! Let us know what you're up to (even if you don't want it included here). We love hearing from you.

Thank you for keeping the momentum going!

—Your PubPub Team 

Community Highlights

Please join us tomorrow, July 15, 2021 at 11am EDT for this webinar, Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Engaging citizens for better governance. Hosted in both English and Spanish, the event will focus on the importance and purpose of citizen engagement, discuss the CONL team's use of PubPub to conduct open policy review, and outline how others can learn from their experience and replicate this process. 

From authors Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, and Candice Odgers and the Connected Learning Alliance, this collection of essays provides perspectives, frameworks, and research for understanding diverse children’s evolving relationships with algorithms, and how stakeholders might shape these relationships in productive ways. It's posted for open community review until October 2021. 

VOL. 4 NO. 2, the latest issue of the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy is now live. The issue is based on the Blockchain & Procedural Law Symposium Papers and is published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. A print version of this journal will be available in the fall.

Volume 2, Issue 7 of Reviews in Digital Humanities is now live from editors Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam. Reviewed DH projects range from a database of records from Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop to a digital project that tells the stories of children during World War II. 

Resource

As part of a growing trend in open governance, citizen consultations have become just one technique to collect  constituent feedback. Recently, the PubPub and the Consejo Nuevo León for Strategic Planning (CONL) teams worked together to organize a successful open review period for policy feedback. To help other groups do the same and/or learn from this experience, we also published this Toolkit for Civic Engagement.

What We’re Reading

1. “Where did the practice of ‘abstracts’ come from?” by Aileen Fyfe

2. “Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted” by Ashley Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, and Megan Wacha

3. “Elsevier Title Level Pricing: Dissecting the Bowl of Spaghetti” by Joel B. Thornton and Curtis Brundy

4. “How the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations” by Brendan Maher and Richard Van Noorden

Endnote(s)

[1]  Attitudes towards open access publishing among BIPOC faculty in STEM 
This survey is intended to identify those interested in participating in a focus group exploring attitudes towards open access publishing among faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or people of color in STEM fields. Its principal investigator, Tatiana Bryant, is the Research Librarian for Digital Humanities, History, and African American Studies at University of California, Irvine. Please consider participating! 

[2]  The KFG launches a new website 
The Knowledge Futures Group, the nonprofit through which PubPub is developed, recently launched a new website to better communicate about its mission, motivations, products, and community-led approach to building open infrastructure. Consider clicking around!