by Talking Humanities | Jul 4, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Richard Espley, head of modern collections at the finest lending library in London, provides a glimpse into Senate House Library’s past and what promises to be an exciting future. The last two years have seen a tremendous amount of activity among the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 19, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
This week sees the launch of the Humanities Digital Library, a new open access publishing platform for scholarly books. The Library is an initiative of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), led by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 12, 2016 | Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, The Social Scholar
Dr Caroline Edwards (above), who will delivered the School of Advanced Study’s July Social Scholar seminar, provides a first-person account of why academics should care about open access. She says academic careers might depend upon publishing in ‘the right journal’ –...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 24, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement
Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, gave one of the ten-minute ‘lightning talks’ at the Being Human Lab on the first day of the Being Human festival (12–22 November). He was challenged to discuss...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 17, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features
Michael Pidd overseas the work of HRI Digital at the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute. He has been working on the Digital Panopticon project, which involves bringing together a large body of third-party data, and believes there is still a...
