Presentation given as part of the session “Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows” at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

In a talk given during London Open Research Week 2021, Arthur J. Boston, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, described parallels between the music industry and academic publishing, especially as it relates to open science and early career researchers. Below, you can find both…[Read more]

Like any other medieval mariner, itinerant viking hosts would have regularly made their way ashore to regroup and reinforce their constituent craft and crews. Accordingly, historical and archaeological records from across Atlantic Europe attest to various waterside encampments having been established during overseas viking campaigns. The everyday…[Read more]

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The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

Oversized volume of biblical commentary published in 1543 (and again in 1549, 1557, 1585, 1594) that is actually a parody which features the erotic lexicon popular in its day

In March 2021, the University of California (UC) and Elsevier announced a new so-called “transformative agreement” that included slightly discounted article processing charges as UC’s route to open access in Elsevier journals. Librarians and researchers expressed immediate concern that this deal upheld inequities in the research system. The UC/El…[Read more]

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

This chapter works with a mixture of discourse analysis, cultural anthropological empiricism, integration of behavioural research, and not al least conceptual argumentation. It integrates different, but corresponding strands of discussion and controversies from German-speaking politics and culture, from academic discourse, research, and art to…[Read more]

Glossary of approximately 11,800 Latin words with English translations from GB Folengo’s works (1543-1559)

Das Buch beschreibt die Lebensgeschichten einer Gruppe von kommunistischen deutschen Überlebenden des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück bei Berlin. Diese gründeten unmittelbar nach ihrer Befreiung und dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus ihre Lagergemeinschaft als gemeinsamen sozialen und politischen Verband. Ausgehend von der biografischen Pr…[Read more]

Talk presented at London Open Research Week 2021 which describes Kanye West’s way of being a creator of helps explain scholarly communication.

La educación en el contexto actual, se encuentra cada vez más relacionada con las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones. Los procesos formativos se realizan con mayor independencia por parte de estudiantes y profesores. El presente texto aborda los cambios contemporáneos que suceden en el proceso de enseñanza – aprendizaje, funda…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Un comentario sobre el proceso en curso de reforma de las titulaciones superiores en el sistema universitario español (en 2005-2006). Un episodio en el que el Ministerio de Educación abandona sus planes de suprimir la mayoría de las titulaciones de Humanidades y de Filología. ___…[Read more]