When thinking about useful skills in this world to be handed down from generations past, immediately my mind turned to wine. Being someone who enjoys wine, and the culture of […]
This year’s Special Collections Christmas party was slightly different to the usual festive celebration, as we continued to follow our Historical How-To theme. We brought along the decorations we have […]
The Journal of Terrorism Research has just become a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). JTR is published by the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at University…
When we first started talking about cooking our way through the collections, one of the early ideas was to make mincemeat for Christmas following an historic recipe that contained meat. […]
The European Commission has launched its Horizon 2020 programme of research funding. Open access remains a core principle, and the model grant agreement describes the expectations for grant recipients. All…
When word went around that this year’s Special Collections’ Christmas party (blog forthcoming) was to be hosted by Maia Sheridan, with everyone chipping in by bringing food made to historical […]
The limited edition boxed set of 600 Years of Book Collecting is now available! Released on St Andrews Day, 2013, the boxed set brings together the all six issues of […]
An international consortium of libraries and funding agencies has announced an innovative new model to achieve open access to peer-reviewed literature in high-energy physics. Through a long period of consultation and a…
Christmas was not much a family festivity until Queen Victoria posed with her children around a laden fir tree, a tradition Prince Albert had brought with him from Germany. The […]
Following two years of development, the Creative Commons organisation has released new licences that are more user-friendly and more internationally robust than ever before. Version 4.0 licences have now been launched…