Modern Languages

Modern Languages Open: Italian Special Collection

Modern Languages Open (MLO), a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages, has published the Special Collection ‘Italy Made in Britain. Contemporary British Perspectives on Italian Culture’. This special issue is about how contemporary Britain perceives and imagines Italy, and how it mirrors itself in Italy’s image. Access … Continue reading

Modern Languages

Special Collection: Reading between the Bloodlines: Reflections on the German-Language Family Story

Modern Languages Open recently published a German Special Collection which considers German-language family novels. The guest editors of this special edition have selected "Writing as Return: A Commentary on Doron Ravinovici’s ‘Nach Wilna" by Todd Herzog and Hillary Hope Herzog as a particularly influential piece. The article is available to read open access here. When asked … Continue reading

Modern Languages

Modern Languages Open: German Special Collection

Modern Languages Open (MLO), a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience, has published 'Reading between the Bloodlines: Reflections on the German-Language Family Story' as a Special Collection in German Studies. This special edition considers German-language family novels, which are experiencing renewed interest in … Continue reading

Art, News

Publishing your book OA: An author’s perspective with Helen Gilbert

An interview by Alison Welsby, Editorial Director with Professor Helen Gilbert from Royal Holloway University of London, on the publication of the Open Access work, In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization. Thank you, Helen, for agreeing to this interview. In the Balance is a remarkable work that considers indigenous peoples’ performance over recent decades. Why did you choose … Continue reading

Journals

Amplifying readership with OA flip – Quaker Studies and OLH

Throughout the week we'll be looking in to the ways our partner organisations are providing open access content, why they provide it, and how it's going. Our staff have interviewed various members of the industry for Open Access Week (#OAWeek) and firstly our Head of Journals, Clare Hooper, interviews the Head of the Open Library … Continue reading