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Four hundred years of Elzeviers: a celebration

Four hundred years of Elzeviers: a celebration

by Talking Humanities | Jul 25, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources

By Dr Karen Attar In 2015, five hundred years after the scholar printer Aldus Manutius of Venice died on 6 February 1515, Europe and America combined to commemorate his passing, with seminars and exhibitions from London to Melbourne and from Uppsala to New York as...
Scholarly editing by machines

Scholarly editing by machines

by Talking Humanities | Aug 30, 2016 | Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Image: © Tatiana Shepeleva / Shutterstock Can a computer create a scholarly digital edition? Can a computer compare multiple texts, identify the order in which they were perhaps written, critically judge whether one text is ‘better’ than another, and then produce an...
Social scholar: transforming scholarship in the digital environment

Social scholar: transforming scholarship in the digital environment

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’ –...

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