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Building on the resounding success of our inaugural training institute, Brown University Digital Publications is pleased to announce a second Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing institute in summer 2024.

Launched with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by Brown University Library, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps is a first-of-its-kind national training program designed for scholars who wish to produce digital publications, but may lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions.

Centered on inclusivity and accessibility, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps expands the field of scholars producing enhanced born-digital publications and, by extension, the audience for digital humanities scholarship.

2024 cohort of Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps. Cohort members are seated at tables and attending a presentation, which takes place in the background.

Offered in July 2024, the three-week summer institute with hybrid virtual and in-person components will provide 15 humanities scholars from all career levels and across disciplines with in-depth knowledge of the digital publishing process, familiarity with open source tools and platforms, advanced project management skills, concrete and individualized plans for project advancement, and top-level publishing industry contacts.

This website, serving as an open access, resource-rich hub for digital scholarly publishing, will make publicly available the full curriculum (course outline, recommended readings, and captioned recordings of all faculty presentations) from the 2024 institute. It will also continue to make available the full curriculum from the 2022 institute.

By demystifying and streamlining the digital publication process,
and by making the full curriculum openly accessible,
this first-of-its-kind national training program expands
the voices, perspectives, and visions represented
in the practice and production of digital humanities scholarship.