By judging from some of the session themes and on-going conversations picked up at the LIBER 2015 conference in London, UK last week, it is evident that library involvement in the publishing landscape is a hot topic. Stockholm University Press (SUP) and the new model for library publishing SUP was represented with a paper during … More Library involvement in the publishing landscape
On 29 May, the Department of English and Stockholm University Press hosted an event to celebrate the publication of the first title in the new Stockholm University Press and Stockholm English Studies series: Richard Begam and James Soderholm’s “Platonic Occasions: Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture”. Watch the authors read a dialogue from the book … More Reading from book launch of “Platonic Occasions”
Festival Romanistica: Contribuciones lingüísticas – Contributions linguistiques – Contributi linguistici – Contribuições linguísticas, edited by Gunnel Engwall & Lars Fant. Discussions on linguistics and discourse studies in four Romance languages The articles in this edited volume represent Romance linguistics as a research area of excellence at the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University. This is … More New Book From Stockholm University Press – Festival Romanistica – Edited by Gunnel Engwall & Lars Fant
In May Stockholm University Press wrote about data mining and we also mentioned the Hague Declaration considering the copyright law in Europe. The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) released a press release about the Hague Declaration and shared their statement about copyright, licenses and text and data mining. LIBER recently responded … More LIBER responds to statement on text and data mining
We want to share the latest news and debate about Open Access. These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. Research Information – Open Access Books Slowly On The Rise, says PCG (Publishers Communication Group) Open Science – Is There a Place For Specialized Open Access journals? … More About Open Acess – This caught our attention this week
According to a report written by The Swedish Research Council, Swedish researchers publish more scientific publications compared to researchers in other countries, based on population. Many Swedish researchers are also quoted and in seventh place among 45 countries according to the councils survey. Internationally that is a good placing. Take part of their report here. … More Swedish Research Council: ”Swedish research is internationally competitive”
Date: 29 May 2015, 10.00 AM – 12.00 PM Venue: “Scenen” in Stockholm University Library We have the pleasure to announce the book launch of Richard Begam and James Soderholm’s Platonic Occasions – Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture This is a joint event, hosted by the Department of English at Stockholm University and Stockholm … More Book Launch – Platonic Occasions Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture
Data mining (also known as content mining) is the term for the process of collecting and finding connections among large amounts of data, which is only possible with the help of technology and unique search algorithms. Data mining can revolutionize research The hassle about data mining is the copyright law. According to the law we … More Imagine free data mining
The Venue for Open Access in Sweden has been arranged every year since 2009. This years conference was held at Malmö University Library and had a focus on dissemination, open data, impact and research support. Stockholm University Press (SUP) was one of the participants in the open space area and held a poster presentation. Most researchers … More Open Access (OA) improves dissemination
SUP participated at the Library Publishing Forum 2015 in Portland Oregon. The theme of the conference were “How can academic libraries create and support sustainable publishing program”. We participated in order to benchmark internationally as well as to get feedback on our recent developments. Research use is the new currency Since SUP is a non-profit … More Stockholm University Press (SUP) and the Library Publishing Forum 2015
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