Category: SUP Books

How open are we? – Open Access publications at Stockholm University

25 October, 2017

By: Sofie Wennström, Analyst at Stockholm University Library An analysis of the university’s publishing output between 2012 and 2016. The Stockholm University Library provides services to support to about 3,500 academic staff at Stockholm University, which could be summarised in two main tasks: information supply and publishing services. One common denominator for these two functions and … More How open are we? – Open Access publications at Stockholm University

Why Transparency is Important to Recognition for Review #PeerRevWk17

13 September, 2017

Stockholm University Press is proud to take part in Peer Review Week 2017. We would like to draw attention in this blog post to how transparency in the peer review process of books is also related to recognition for review. More precisely we wish to discuss what is transparent and for whom. By Christina Lenz, … More Why Transparency is Important to Recognition for Review #PeerRevWk17

Performativitet

First textbook published by Stockholm University Press: Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap. Edited by Malin Hedlin Hayden and Mårten Snickare

16 August, 2017

Stokholm University Press is proud of publishing its first textbook, addressed to students of Art History. Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap (In English: Performativity. Theoretical Applications in Art History). The book is written in Swedish. What does performativity signify? And what does it mean to speak of something as being performative? Aiming to clarify and … More First textbook published by Stockholm University Press: Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap. Edited by Malin Hedlin Hayden and Mårten Snickare

New book from Stockholm University Press: Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 1, by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Matthew S. Adams (eds.)

25 April, 2017

Reflecting both a rise of interest in anarchist ideas and activism on the one hand, and the revival of religious ideas and movements in the political sphere on the other, this book examines a range of examples of overlaps and contestations between the two from a diverse range of academic perspectives. The first volume of … More New book from Stockholm University Press: Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 1, by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Matthew S. Adams (eds.)

Crowdfunding for coming open access book: Essays in Anarchism & Religion

24 January, 2017

Essays in Anarchism & Religion: Volume 1, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Matthew S. Adams, is an edited volume of academic essays ready for production with Stockholm University Press in the series Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. The book is planned to be published in April 2017. To reach the aim of producing the editors … More Crowdfunding for coming open access book: Essays in Anarchism & Religion

New book from Stockholm University Press: Kunskapens tider. Historiska perspektiv på kunskapssamhället (”The knowledge society. A historical perspective”) Annika Sandén & Elisabeth Elgán (eds.)

23 November, 2016

Today’s society is often characterized as a knowledge society, in contrast to the earlier industrial society. Historians know that all societies are and have been knowledge societies. Without the ability to create, transfer, and use knowledge, between individuals and groups, power areas would neither have been built nor maintained. This edited volume reflects how historical … More New book from Stockholm University Press: Kunskapens tider. Historiska perspektiv på kunskapssamhället (”The knowledge society. A historical perspective”) Annika Sandén & Elisabeth Elgán (eds.)

New book from Stockholm University Press: Krig och fred i vendel- och vikingatida traditioner, by Håkan Rydving & Stefan Olsson (eds.)

2 November, 2016

What were the ideas about conflicts and conflict resolutions in the Nordic countries during the Vendel Period and the Viking Age? How were the gods Odin and Thor perceived to affect war and peace? These are examples of questions that the contributors of this book discuss. Other topics are how the role of gender and power … More New book from Stockholm University Press: Krig och fred i vendel- och vikingatida traditioner, by Håkan Rydving & Stefan Olsson (eds.)

#OpenAccessWeek #OpenInAction – First OA book in the Series Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion

25 October, 2016

We are happy to announce that the Editorial board of Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion has now published their first open access book with Stockholm University Press. New book from Stockholm University Press: Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has … More #OpenAccessWeek #OpenInAction – First OA book in the Series Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion

Don't Be Quiet, Start a Riot

New book from Stockholm University Press: Don’t be Quiet, Start a Riot: Essays on Feminism and Performance by Tiina Rosenberg

27 May, 2016

Tiina Rosenberg’s latest book is freely available to the public in English through open access publishing, an innovative method of disseminating her studies of Swedish Performing Arts, feminism, and performance worldwide. “I hope that publishing these essays in an open access format will enable a wider audience to share the insights of Scandinavian research into … More New book from Stockholm University Press: Don’t be Quiet, Start a Riot: Essays on Feminism and Performance by Tiina Rosenberg

New book from Stockholm University Press: The role of laymen during Reformation cultural conflicts in new light

15 January, 2016

The way in which Reformation conflicts were carried out by the leading clerical Reformers has been studied in depth, but those at the margins of the Reformation have often been neglected. Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans. Inszenierungen rhetorischer Streitkultur in der Reformationszeit, by Kerstin Lundström is a study of pamphlets written as a reaction to, … More New book from Stockholm University Press: The role of laymen during Reformation cultural conflicts in new light