Biblioteca Digital de Humanidades

The Biblioteca Digital de Humanidades (BDH) is the digital, open-access editorial project of the Dirección General del Área de Humanidades (General Directorate of the Humanities Area) of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), a public state university in Veracruz, Mexico. Its stated mission is to promote worldwide access to the scholarly publications produced within the university's humanities area, distributing them exclusively in digital form over the internet. The imprint is headquartered at the university's main campus in Xalapa, Veracruz. BDH publishes monographs and research titles in the humanities and social sciences, including work on education, language teaching, migration, water conflicts, and social subjectivity. Titles are released under an open-access model: they can be downloaded freely and printed without cost, and are catalogued in the Universidad Veracruzana's institutional repository. Each volume carries an ISBN and is produced through a rigorous editorial process that includes peer review, double-blind assessment, draft reading and correction, and editorial design based on institutional formats. An Editorial Committee composed of specialists from the different faculties of the Humanities Area oversees the catalogue. The catalogue is organized by volume. Early titles, published around 2010, include "Una inquietante familiaridad" by Leticia Cufré Marchetto (Vol. 1), "Access to English" by Frank Ramírez-Marín (Vol. 2), "Entre las demandas reivindicativas y ambientales" by José Cruz Agüero Rodríguez (Vol. 3), "Self-access language learning" by Luz Edith Herrera Díaz (Vol. 4), "Transition in EFL from Secondary to Preparatory in Mexican State Schools" by Nora M. Basurto Santos (Vol. 5), and "El proceso migratorio veracruzano" by Carlos Garrido de la Calleja (Vol. 6). The official site also highlights authors such as Anne Staples, Juan Carlos García Rodríguez, Gualberto Díaz González, Arturo Narváez Aguilera, José Carlos López Hernández, Josué Francisco González Jassí, Abel Rogelio Terrazas, and Gerardo Antonio Galindo Peláez. As a university press imprint, BDH is not a commercial company but a state-owned academic publishing platform. It operates under the Universidad Veracruzana, whose main campus is located at Lomas del Estadio s/n, C.P. 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. The project reflects the broader movement toward open-access scholarly publishing in Latin America, aiming to make locally produced humanities research visible and freely available to a global readership.

The Biblioteca Digital de Humanidades (BDH) was established as an editorial project of the Dirección General del Área de Humanidades of the Universidad Veracruzana, a public state university based in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Its purpose was to gather, publish, and disseminate the scholarly output of the university's humanities area in digital, open-access form, making it available to readers worldwide rather than restricting it to print or local distribution. The project's early catalogue took shape around 2010, when its first volumes appeared. Volume 1, "Una inquietante familiaridad" by Leticia Cufré Marchetto, examined violent social practices as organizers of subjectivity through a case study at the Universidad Veracruzana. Volume 2, "Access to English" by Frank Ramírez-Marín, studied Mexican immigrant students' experiences in an Arizona high school. Volume 3, "Entre las demandas reivindicativas y ambientales" by José Cruz Agüero Rodríguez, analyzed water conflicts in the Córdoba-Orizaba metropolitan area of Veracruz between 1990 and 2006. Volume 4, "Self-access language learning" by Luz Edith Herrera Díaz, explored students' perceptions of autonomous learning in the university's self-access language centers (CADI). Volume 5, "Transition in EFL from Secondary to Preparatory in Mexican State Schools" by Nora M. Basurto Santos, addressed academic transitions in English language teaching. Volume 6, "El proceso migratorio veracruzano" by Carlos Garrido de la Calleja, reconstructed the migration process in Veracruz, focusing on the sugar-cane fields. From the outset, BDH adopted an open-access model: its books are downloadable free of charge and may be freely printed, and they are distributed exclusively in digital form over the internet. The imprint also established a rigorous editorial workflow, including peer review, double-blind assessment, reading and correction of drafts, and editorial design following institutional formats. Each title is registered with an ISBN and catalogued in the Universidad Veracruzana's institutional repository. An Editorial Committee made up of specialists from the different faculties of the Humanities Area oversees the catalogue. Over time, the catalogue expanded beyond the initial volumes to include works by a broader group of authors, among them Anne Staples, Juan Carlos García Rodríguez, Gualberto Díaz González, Arturo Narváez Aguilera, José Carlos López Hernández, Josué Francisco González Jassí, Abel Rogelio Terrazas, and Gerardo Antonio Galindo Peláez, as featured on the project's official website. The BDH continues to operate as the digital publishing arm of the university's humanities area, headquartered at the Universidad Veracruzana's main campus in Xalapa.

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 1, "Una inquietante familiaridad" by Leticia Cufré Marchetto (ISBN 978-607-7605-89-8).

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 2, "Access to English" by Frank Ramírez-Marín (ISBN 978-607-7605-88-1).

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 3, "Entre las demandas reivindicativas y ambientales" by José Cruz Agüero Rodríguez (ISBN 978-607-7605-93-5).

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 4, "Self-access language learning" by Luz Edith Herrera Díaz (ISBN 978-607-7605-92-8).

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 5, "Transition in EFL from Secondary to Preparatory in Mexican State Schools" by Nora M. Basurto Santos (ISBN 978-607-502-019-8).

• 2010

  Publication of Volume 6, "El proceso migratorio veracruzano" by Carlos Garrido de la Calleja (ISBN 978-697-502-115-7).

Open-access digital academic publisher for the humanities at the Universidad Veracruzana; free to download and print, peer-reviewed, ISBN-registered, distributed exclusively online.

• 2010

  Una inquietante familiaridad

  Volume 1; subtitle: Las prácticas sociales violentas como organizadoras de subjetividad. Un caso en la Universidad Veracruzana.

• 2010

  Access to English

  Volume 2; subtitle: Mexican immigrant students' experiences in an Arizona high school.

• 2010

  Entre las demandas reivindicativas y ambientales

  Volume 3; subtitle: Conflictos por el agua en la zona metropolitana Córdoba-Orizaba, Veracruz, 1990-2006.

• 2010

  Self-access language learning

  Volume 4; subtitle: Students' perceptions of and experiences within this new mode of learning.

• 2010

  Transition in EFL from Secondary to Preparatory in Mexican State Schools

  Volume 5; subtitle: Participant Perspectives.

• 2010

  El proceso migratorio veracruzano

  Volume 6; subtitle: Aportes teórico-metodológicos para su estudio e intervención. El caso del campo cañero.

1. 1Biblioteca Digital de Humanidades – official websiteuv.mx
2. 2Biblioteca digital de humanidades – Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Biblioteca digital de humanidades – Wikipedia (Spanish)es.wikipedia.org