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About H-Net Commons

H-Net Commons is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars, professors, and other professionals dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the internet. This management platform serves as the foundation for H-Net 2.0 that is the new home of H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online.

H-Net Commons

The H-Net Commons hosts 180 free online Networks that are edited by “300 volunteer field experts worldwide with approximately 2000,000 subscribers, each network is overseen by an advisory board of experts” (H-Net Commons About). Their edited networks publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussions for colleagues and the interested public. In addition to their diverse and active audience, H-Net has public archives that date back to 1994 and are all accessible to the public.

H-Net Services

The platform’s main services include the Book Channel, H-Net Reviews, Job Guide, and Academic Announcements. The Book Channel publishes lists of new books in a variety of disciplines while the H-Net Reviews contains “the largest online professional reviewing archive” that has roughly 46,000 free book reviews. H-Announce, the academic announcements page, is where subscribers can access academic events, conferences, programs, calls for publication, and news. The H-Net Job Guide is the focus of our project and is discussed in the next section.

H-Net HQ

The computing heart and main office of H-Net Commons resides at the Department of History at Michigan State University, but H-Net Commons  officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe.

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About the H-Net Job Guide

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Over twenty years ago, the H-Net Job Guide began as a service for professionals and institutions in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This channel also serves to support H-Net Commons’ mission of advancing the communication within and publishing of new media. The Job Guide is the premier source of information about academic job postings in the United States and abroad.

H-Net’s audience includes individuals who strive to advance their degrees and who are committed to the advancement of the humanities and social sciences. Their audience includes graduate students, K-12 teachers, college professors, archivists, librarians, other interested professionals, and recent college graduates who are all seeking employment that will challenge their unique skills and advance their areas of study. Due to H-Net Commons’ diverse audience, this service offers a wide range of academic and non-academic job announcements within the nonprofit, not-for-profit, and government fields. The H-Net Job Guide is one of H-Net Commons’ most visible and popular components with over 100,000 pages views per week.

The H-Net Job Guide is free to those who are seeking jobs, but they do collect a $300 fee from the job poster. This fee, collected from the job poster, helps H-Net Commons maintain and improve the H-Net Job Guide. However, because H-Net Commons considers the Job Guide as a service to the larger academic community they do grant fee waivers on a case-by-case basis to the institutions and non-profit organizations that are genuinely unable to make the payment.

Browse Job Postings

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At the top of the “Browse Job Postings” sub-page, the viewer can see the three “Featured Job Postings” as well as scroll through the posted jobs by month going as far back as September, 2016.  Viewers also have the option to narrow down their search by changing the ‘Browse By’ drop-down menu and/or the ‘Category’ drop-down menu. Under the ‘Browse By’ drop-down menu the viewer can choose between posting date, category, institution, location, or position. Under the “Category” drop-down menu the viewer can narrow down the job posting according to a particular field/area of study. This sub-page makes up the bulk of the H-Net Job Guide and is where most of the activity takes place.  

Advanced Search

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Just like the “Browse Job Postings” sub-page, the “Advanced Search” sub-page also shows the viewer the three ‘Featured Job Postings.’  In addition to that, the viewer can narrow down the job postings by inputting descriptive words that they can have included or excluded in the advanced search.  Viewers can further narrow down their job search using the following criteria; category, position type, institution, institution type, country, and state/province.  The last way that viewers can narrow down their job search is by deciding if they want to include archived jobs in the search.  The “Advanced Search” sub-page allows viewers, both job posters and job seekers, to conduct a detailed search for their next employment opportunity.

Examples of Job Posts

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Museum Job Posting Example: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (posted 4/15/19)

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College/University Job Posting Example: National University of Singapore

(posted 4/15/19)

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