by aseifert | Feb 3, 2015 | Events, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Magna Carta 800, Projects, Research & Resources
The four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta will come together for the first time in history as part of a one-off event organised by the British Library to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the historic document. Julian Harrison, curator of...
by aseifert | Jan 27, 2015 | Annual Review, History & Classics, Projects
One of the most important activities of any SAS Institute is to promote and encourage cutting-edge research and to ensure that the results of projects are given the widest possible circulation among the whole research community and to a wider audience. The...
by aseifert | Jan 13, 2015 | Digital, Publications, SAS Space Data Repository, Training and Research
This post takes a quick look at what the School is doing to enable its researchers to publish Open Access. As most of you will know scholarly publication is in the process of change. For a long time now we’ve accepted the subscription service route;...
by aseifert | Nov 25, 2014 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
The second Social Scholar seminar of the term takes place on Wednesday 3 December 2014, 1pm-2pm, in room 243 (Senate House). This week our focus will be on Twitter, and in particular on a unique idea for a rotation-curation Twitter account. In this post the founders...
by aseifert | Nov 11, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Ministry of Information Digital, Public Engagement, Republished
From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. Republished from By Henry Irving, School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) At...
by aseifert | Oct 23, 2014 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
How do you write a blog post? Is it the same as writing a very short article or a press release? Next Wednesday (29 October), Matt Phillpott (School of Advanced Study) will talk at the Social Scholar lunchtime seminar on the topic of writing blog posts in an academic...
