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...
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...
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’ –...
