Reviews in Digital Humanities (RDH) is a growing treasure trove of digital scholarship. Starting in January 2020, the monthly issues include special issues on digital pedagogies, Borderlands, LatinX, Jewish, sound, Black and other digital humanities (DH) foci. The editors “particularly encourage submission of digital scholarship in critical ethnic, African diaspora, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, and postcolonial studies.” Each project reviewed becomes part of a registry through which one can browse projects by title, time period, field of study, or topic or method. For examples of the range of digital projects covered, read about Radio Free Stein: critical sound project on Gertrude Stein’s dramatic works, the Indian Community Cookbooks Project, GeoNewsMiner, or On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance.
Organized as an open access journal, each issue has notes from the editors covering the state of RDH, as well as scope notes for the issue. Each review is published with a Creative Commons license and follows a template: project description; project’s people, content and technical foundations; description of project team and their expertise; description of audience; and description in context of professional guidelines and relevance for scholarly discipline. Review processes and content are thoroughly documented, with recognition of the labor contributed by reviewers as well as the role of the review DH project contributors’ tenure and promotion cases and future funding. RDH is published on an open-source, community-led publishing platform, PubPub. Sarah Lynn Patterson, Assistant Professor in UMass Amherst’s Department of English, currently serves on the editorial board.
