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 well as in his native Italy. Senate House Library (SHL) […]
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 authoritative variorum edition? The answer is increasingly: yes, the computer can do all of […]
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’ – but that journal doesn’t need to be pay-walled, and big business should not be allowed […]
