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8^th ESPRit CONFERENCE 2019, ATHENS, GREECE

National Library of Greece

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

11-13 September 2019

PERIODICALS AND VISUAL CULTURE

It's an article by Andrew Bostom February 18, 2019, on PJ Media here: https://pjmedia.com/columnist/andrew-g-bostom/

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a comprehensive account of the evolution of a variety of Open Access publishing schemes.

Below is a link and short excerpt from "A Turning Point for Scholarly Publishing" by Lindsay Ellis, Feb. 19, 2019

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/Trend19-OpenAccess-Main

This week in the Twittersphere, Peniel Joseph's article "Why this Year's Black History Month is Pivotal" reminds us that this year, 2019, marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans brought to the British colonial America.

Motivated by the debate over "Plan S", this lengthy article discusses historians reactions to, and attitudes toward,  recent open access initiatives.  An interesting read.  

Karin Wulf, "A Brief History of History Responding to Open Access," Scholarly Kitchen, February 13, 2019

"After the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Krikor Guerguerian, a priest and genocide survivor, traveled the world collecting evidence to document the atrocities.

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Below is a link to and excerpt from an article that appeared in this month's Atlantic about a team of researchers who are using the acknowledgements sections in professional articles to rewrite the recent history of genetics.

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This week in the twittersphere, an unusual letter found in the manuscript collections at the Library of Congress made the spotlight. Explored by historian Adam Rothman in his article “’My Dear Master:’ An Enslaved Blacksmith’s Letter to a President,” the letter provides a glimpse into the life and political awareness of one enslaved man during the mid-nineteenth century.