Providing information to direct libraries and institutions (as well as individuals) to the relevant OA initiatives, this article helps organisations to make informed decisions on funding, and to spread awareness of the numerous benefits offered by OA in education more widely.
What’s Blood Got to Do With It? Reimagining Kinship in the Age of Enlightenment
Tracy Rutler is the author of Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature, the November volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This new work analyzes French literature from the 1730s and 40s to illuminate the potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and to help us imagine what might … Continue reading
Lincoln’s Quaker Meeting House – combining ancient and modern
Quakers and their Meeting Houses is a highly illustrated and fascinating account of the architecture and historical development of the Quaker meeting house, from the foundation of the movement to the twenty-first century, drawing largely on examples from the UK. Author Chris Skidmore discusses an example of a Quaker Meeting House in Lincoln and the … Continue reading
Refounding the nation: America and the Modernist Epic
In this blog post Adam Nemmers, author of American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Found a Nation (Clemson University Press), introduces the genre of modernist epic novel and reflects on the centennial anniversaries of the modernist movement. American Modern(ist) Epic argues that a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to … Continue reading
Opening the Future for Open Access: New Article in ‘Research Information’
An article co-authored by Anthony Cond, CEO of Liverpool University Press was published recently in leading industry magazine, 'Research Information'. With the recent awareness of the benefits of Open Access publications being showcased throughout #OpenAccessWeek2021, the article discusses some of the more recent developments in OA legislation, considering its impact on the academic publishing industry going forward.
