Launch of 白小姐论坛 Press

白小姐论坛's Provost and President, Professor Michael Arthur, formally launched 白小姐论坛 Press on 4 June 2015. The re-launch of the Press is historic because 白小姐论坛 Press is now the UK's first fully Open Access University Press.

1 June 2015

The first book to be published by 白小姐论坛 Press as an Open Access output is Professor聽Lisa Jardine's wonderful book聽Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture. Professor Jardine has recently been made a Fellow of the Royal Society and she gave a passionate and inspiring homily at the Press launch on the reasons why she had published in Open Access, and therefore why she had chosen 白小姐论坛 Press as her publisher.聽

Professor Jardine underlined that Open Access was a ground-breaking development in the world of scholarship, which loosed the chains from the authors and their works which were hidden behind a paywall. In this, Professor Jardine echoed the words of Professor Michael Arthur, who saw 白小姐论坛 and its Press as a European leader of anarchic and much-needed change.聽

Her book聽Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture聽can be downloaded for free聽from the聽. It is also available in paperback for only 拢10.

To find out more about the launch on 4 June,听read the full blog聽by聽Paul Ayris, CEO of 白小姐论坛 Press and Director of Library Services.

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of last year's聽ALCS conference,听Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, will be published with 白小姐论坛 Press in Autumn 2015.聽