Norma Clarke explores how contemporary models of crowd-funding – allowing authors to by-pass conventional publishers to fund, print and disseminate their books – echo eighteenth-century practices of publishing by subscription, used by Alexander Pope, bluestockings, and ‘scandalous’ women alike
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Job Opportunity – Administrative Editor History Workshop Journal
Administrative Editor for History Workshop Journal The editorial collective of History Workshop Journal are looking for a part-time administrator to manage the administrative and financial functions of the journal’s editorial process. The job will require an average of eight hours a week, with the possibility of overtime. Pay will be […]
Self-publish and be Damned: A call for Radical Publishing Alternatives
Lesley Hulonce advocates a revolution in academic publishing, including radical alternatives like self publishing.
Reinventing the Academic Journal: The ‘Digital Turn’, Open Access, & Peer Review
Tim Hitchcock and Jason M. Kelly discuss the transformations of the ‘digital turn’ to academic publishing practises and ways of defining an academic community
An Inadvertent Revolutionary? Developing Law, Crime and History as an Open Access Journal
Dr Kim Stevenson on being an inadvertent revolutionary with first-hand experience of Open Access publishing.