Early European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today’s often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

Haussmann’s re-building of Paris in the 1850s and ’60s had created an ordered city. However, the bourgeoisie used the new urban configurations as a weapon against the lower classes. This article describes the spaces of the underground and the overground: the underground is the metaphorical and literal rubbish heap for those in the lower parts of…[Read more]

A series of sketches written in 1924 during an ocean crossing from New York to Tilbury, “Passage to England” was published only in 1998 by the Thomas Wolfe Society and is hardly Wolfe’s most popular or most accomplished work. Nonetheless I always felt that Passage to England had something unique and idiosyncratic and that despite a certain a…[Read more]

La endogamia editorial en revistas científicas es uno de los aspectos determinantes en la evaluación de estas. La poca presencia de endogamia favorece el posicionamiento, la visibilidad y potencialmente su impacto. Se plantearon como objetivos del estudio 1) identificar los indicadores bibliométricos existentes enfocados en diagnosticar la en…[Read more]

This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher’s works. The ideas that drove Fletcher’s creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

In this article, I examine two recent memoirs of Zen students that speak openly about the aberrant behavior of their teachers. These memoirs are Natalie Goldberg’s The Great Failure (2004) and Shozan Jack Haubner’s Single White Monk (2017). Both of these authors consider the scandals surrounding their teachers as an opportunity for spiritual gro…[Read more]

La proliferación de las asociaciones de profesionales de bibliotecarios en Cuba tiene lugar en la década de 1930 como parte de la incorporación de la nación al movimiento mundial. A partir de una revisión de la literatura científica publicada se pudo identificar la ausencia de fuentes dedicadas al análisis de asociaciones de profesionales de bib…[Read more]

El Comportamiento Informacional Web y la Experiencia de Usuario son disciplinas científicas que comparten aspectos comunes. No se evidencian estudios precedentes que delimiten las relaciones entre las disciplinas Comportamiento Informacional Web y Experiencia de Usuario desde la perspectiva métrica. Se planteó como objetivo del estudio: ca…[Read more]

Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access in this blog post from the Scholarly Kitchen.

लक्ष्मी नगर के मेट्रो स्टेशन से उत्तर की ओर बढ़ते ही शकरपुर का ‘स्कूल ब्लॉक’ मोहल्ला आता है। कुछ समय पहले तक इसकी एक गली पर एक हैरतअंगेज साइन-बोर्ड लगा था, जिस पर बड़े अक्षरों में लिखा था – ‘जाति जरूरी है’। बोर्ड में जाति के फायदों का उल्लेख करते हुए इसे हर जगह के लिए आवश्यक बताया गया था। बोर्ड एकदम मुख्य सड़क पर था। आते-जात…[Read more]

Innovative university libraries need to create suitable environments to provide training in media and information skills. The WebQuest is a teaching resource adaptable to any educational level which has proven its usefulness in the university context. A WebQuest designed to facilitate knowledge and awareness of the importance of media and…[Read more]

Analizamos el contexto e ideología de la película de ciencia ficción ‘El Origen del Planeta de los Simios’ (2011), con especial atención sobre el juego intertextual de precuelas y secuelas, y sobre las inquietudes ideológicas manifiestas en lo relativo a las relaciones raciales y al evolucionismo.…[Read more]

The Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]

Las revistas científicas constituyen instancias que contribuyen a la institucionalización y consolidación de campos científicos particulares. El campo científico de los estudios sociales sobre el desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe cuenta con pocas publicaciones seriadas abiertas a la aceptación y el diálogo entre paradig…[Read more]