Journal of Digital History
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Editor-in-Chief:
Andreas Fickers
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Managing Editor:
Frédéric Clavert
About this journal
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is a joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg and the De Gruyter publishing group.
The journal serves as a forum for critical debate and discussion in the field of digital history by offering an innovative publication platform and promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences. As an international peer-reviewed open access journal, the JDH sets new standards in history publishing based on a novel multi-layered approach. Based on code notebooks, articles include:
- a narration layer exploring the possibilities of multimedia storytelling
- a hermeneutic layer highlighting the methodological implications of using digital tools, data and code
- a data layer providing access to data and making it reusable (when possible).
Jupyter Notebooks are at the heart of the edition and exploration of articles.
Watch the "Presentation of the new Journal of Digital History" on Youtube and learn more about JDH: https://youtu.be/UvS5l1moG3E
The PDF versions of the journal's articles published here do not offer the full experience of the full, multi-layered articles. For those, please visit https://journalofdigitalhistory.org . It is advised to access the desktop version of the articles as the mobile version, too, does not offer readers the full experience, yet. Links to the respective articles are also included in the PDF versions.
Peer Review and Submission Policy
The JDH is a single-blind peer-reviewed journal. It publishes research on all aspects of digital history. Abstracts must first be submitted via the journal website before full papers can be submitted. The managing editor will contact the author(s) to assess the feasibility of the paper. Once the managing editor has approved the paper, it should be submitted in full. Papers must contain the three layers that are characteristic of the JDH. Each layer is evaluated by means of a double-blind peer-review procedure. If you have any editorial questions, you can contact the managing editor.
Please note that your manuscript may be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check and please take note of De Gruyter's Publication Ethics Statement.
Instant Gold OA without author APCs: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. Articles are published under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND (authors can opt for CC-BY).
Open Call for Papers
Contributions from all subfields of (digital) history are welcome!
We are looking for articles whose structure and argument demonstrate the value of our approach based on the principle of interconnected narrative, hermeneutic and data layers.
Submit an abstract: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/submit
Our journal aims to become the central hub of critical debate and discussion in the field of Digital History by offering an innovative publication platform, promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences.
1) Highlight your Digital Method
Tired of journals asking you to cut down your methodological developments? JDH introduces a hermeneutics layer where you will be able to fully go into detail.
2) Show your Data
There’s no history without primary sources. Turning them into a dataset is a hallmark of digital history today. Expose your dataset and – if possible – make it reusable for other researchers thanks to JDH’s data layer.
3) Narrate (Hi)story
JDH allows you to elaborate a (multi-media) narrative layer that goes beyond the traditional scope of academic journals.
4) Don’t give up on rigour
JDH is based on a single-blind peer review process.
The journal makes use of ipynb notebooks to publish the articles. In addition to that, there is a couple of rules to format content and visualize datasets. The article shall be written in English (and thus use English style typography). You can find the guidelines for authors here: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/guidelines
Editor-in-Chief:
Andreas Fickers, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
Managing Editor:
Frédéric Clavert, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
Editorial Board:
- Edward Ayers, University of Richmond, USA
- Anat Ben-David, Open University of Israel, Israel
- Stefano Dall'Aglio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Elisabeth Guerrard, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
- Torsten Hiltmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex, UK
- Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Mareike König, German Historical Institute Paris, France
- Dilton Maynard, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil
- Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Emmanuel Ngué Um, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
- Julia Noordegraaf, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Eva Pfanzelter, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Mirjam Pfeiffer, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
- Nadezhda Povroznik, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
- Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
- Silke Schwandt, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Pelle Snickars, Umeå University, Sweden
- Sean Takats, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
- William Thomas, University of Nebraska, USA
- Jane Winters, University of London, UK
- Gerben Zaagsma, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg
Editorial Office: Frédéric Clavert / frederic.clavert@uni.lu
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