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Discussion published by Dominique Daniel on Monday, February 8, 2021

Knowledge Unlatched releases short videos on the relevance of its Open Access partner collections and models

Knowledge Unlatched has released "short but informative videos" that "feature a publisher describing the partnership it has developed with KU in order to unlatch quality scholarly books in various disciplines over the next few years."

Source: Mirela Roncevic, No Shelf Required, November 27, 2020, http://www.noshelfrequired.com/knowledge-unlatched-releases-short-videos-on-the-relevance-...

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Discussion published by Yelena Kalinsky on Wednesday, May 2, 2018

From the Web: The Multigraph Collective and Interacting with Print

In the latest Perspectives on History, editor Allison Miller tells the fascinating story of the Multigraph Collective, a group of 22 book historians and print scholars from Canada, the US, and the UK interested in the materiality and interactivity of reading who employed a radical form of electronic collaboration to produce the jointly composed and edited "multigraph,"

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Review published on Thursday, March 4, 2021
Author: 
Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, eds.
Reviewer: 
Stefan Lund

Lund on Dew and Genest and Paine, 'From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution'

Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, eds. From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 320 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-712-4; $110.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62616-711-7.

Reviewed by Stefan Lund (University of Virginia) Published on H-War (March, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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