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A Gold road paved with good intentions? What Plan S implies for Humanities OA book publishing

Eleven European countries, the Netherlands among them, have formulated a plan to enforce Open Access for all research publications by 2020, and so curb Big Publishing’s profits. It risks crushing smaller initiatives in Humanities monographs in its march...

Modern and Contemporary Studies

The Green Academic

Plastic cups and bags, air travel, and conference goodies: some ethical dilemmas for researchers (and everybody else).

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Medieval Literature as Young Adult Fiction?

Can medieval literature still be fun for high school students? And which medieval character is a classic YA-hero?

Classics and Classical Civilisation · Medieval and Early Modern Studies · Modern and Contemporary Studies

Horace’s Ars poetica in Children’s Literature: from advising poets to the Reader’s bill of Rights

Around 19 BC, Horace advised poets both to instruct and delight their readers, in order to write proper poetry. This piece of advice is still well-known nowadays, especially in pedagogy. But isn’t it a bit restrictive for children?

Medieval and Early Modern Studies · Modern and Contemporary Studies

The Afterlife of a Shipwreck?

How does a shipwreck live on after its excavation? Leonor Veiga interviews Natali Pearson about her PhD dissertation on the afterlife of the Belitung shipwreck.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

A Painter, a Collector, and a Horseshoe Crab

On full moon nights this time of the year, an extraordinary sight can be witnessed on beaches all over the U.S. East Coast. Thousands of horseshoe crabs come ashore to mate and lay eggs.