Biographical sketch of the 16th-C humanist Guilhelmus Lapidanus

Notes on Christophorus and Iohannes Vladeraccus

Een humanistische lezing van Antoon Claeissens’ Feestmaal van stadsfunctionarissen (Brugge, 1574)

The major change in the way library stores and maintains knowledge came with the advent of computers and new technologies. Further, origin of Internet and the development of World Wide Web (WWW) have opened up new vista for communication of scholarly information and helping Libraries to create and maintain information through Libraries’ W…[Read more]

As we begin to see the discussion of open publishing, open textbooks, and open educational resources break open on campus, it’s important that those of us who want to participate in open access are up to date on all of the resources, venues, and opportunities for publishing or otherwise disseminating our work. This workshop will re-familiarize p…[Read more]

As we begin to see the discussion of open publishing, open textbooks, and open educational resources break open on campus, it’s important that those of us who want to participate in open access are up to date on all of the resources, venues, and opportunities for publishing or otherwise disseminating our work. This workshop will re-familiarize p…[Read more]

This session compares major topics from scholarly communication and trends in Hip-Hop, with the objective of providing lessons and examples for effective teaching. By discussing Hip-Hop artists as impact-minded authors of copyrighted works navigating a marketplace newly-disrupted by Internet technology, it may be possible for students to bring…[Read more]

Article about the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA, which provides financial support for publishing in non-profit OA.

The rationale behind this research was the quest to explore the policies, practices, techniques and strategies for audiovisual and digital media in developing countries experiencing tropical climates, given the fact that countries in developing countries are lagging behind in technology due to the cost attached to the implementation of…[Read more]

“In capitalism, institutional libraries, publishers and book traders all have ways to suppress the publishing of, the access to or the distribution of texts and books — rigidities inviting for creative subversion.”

This chapter written in the form of a dialogue presents an informal conversation between Eva Weinmayr and her inner voice about a…[Read more]

A manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).

An Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]