The pandemic has led to a surge in working from home and a fall in business travel. More meetings have taken place remotely. Marcus Biermann looks at how the changes have played out in academic seminars in economics, and asks whether women in academia …
Digital Content, Digital Humanities, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Interviews, open access, open data
Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: An Interview with Victoria Scheppele
We are delighted to introduce Victoria (Tori) Scheppele, a Library Technician in the Prints & Photographs Division who has joined us temporarily to work on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative. The CCHC initiative is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Centered in LC Labs, the project […]
Is doing a PhD bad for your mental health?
Poor mental health amongst PhD researchers is increasingly being recognised as an issue within higher education institutions. However, there continues to be unanswered questions relating to the propensity and causality of poor mental health amongst PhD…
Academic Publishing, Featured, open access, open science, Open Social Science, qualitative research, Qunatitative Research, scholarly communication, social sciences
Eight components for ‘open social science’ – An agenda for cultural change
The open science movement has been gathering force in STEM disciplines for many years, and some of its procedural elements have been adopted also by quantitative social scientists. However, little work has yet been done on exploring how more ambitious …
academic books, Academic Publishing, Featured, living books, OA books, Post-digital, processual book
The Processual Book. How Can We Move Beyond the Printed Codex?
Behind the finalised pages of any academic book lies a range of processes and contributions that led to its creation. Discussing her recent work Living Books, Janneke Adema explores how open online tools have given expression to these procedural aspect…
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Digitization collaboration with National Central Library of Taiwan completed
January 5, 2022
by Hannah Frost
Digitization
Rare books
Chinese studies scholars and Stanford Libraries are celebrating the digit…