Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce its newest partnership with ScienceOpen, a freely accessible search and discovery platform that puts research in context. The partnership integrates new collections in humanities, social and life sciences. Placed in an interactive discovery environment on ScienceOpen, LUP will benefit from a complete infrastructure for preprints, open and closed … Continue reading
Town Planning Review 90.5 Featured Article
The editors of Town Planning Review have selected ‘The planned ‘city-region’ in the New Urban Agenda: an appropriate framing for urban food security?’ by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson as the Featured Article for Town Planning Review 90.5. The paper will be free to access for a limited time here. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its … Continue reading
Modern Languages Open to launch a Linguistics Section
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the introduction of a Linguistics section to our open access platform, Modern Languages Open. The Linguistics Section will be edited by Nicola Bermingham (University of Liverpool), and will be supported by an Editorial Board which consists of Michelle Harrison (University of Leicester), Professor Kerstin Hoge (University of Oxford), … Continue reading
Star Wars: the evolution of the Death Star reflects Hollywood’s growing fears of a climate apocalypse
This piece was originally published on The Conversation. Design for the ultimate Death Star – Star Wars: Rogue One. Lucasfilms/20th Century Fox Science fiction films are rarely about the future. Their distant planets and remote time periods instead seem to reflect upon the concerns and anxieties of the contemporary moment. For instance, 1978’s Invasion of the Bodysnatchers played … Continue reading
LUP Journals now indexed in the Cabells Whitelist
We are pleased to announce that Romani Studies, International Development Planning Review, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Labour History Review, European Journal of Language Policy, Comma, The Indexer, and Archives are now indexed in the Cabells Whitelist. The Cabells Whitelist is a curated list of over 11,000 academic journals spanning 18 disciplines guides researchers and institutions in getting … Continue reading
