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In today’s knowledge economy, the practical value of a STEM degree is obvious. Yet our future depends on graduates who are steeped in the humanities and social sciences.

To what extent should academic hiring and promotional bodies apply a discount for articles with many authors?

Topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the  research activity in these disciplines.

A community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences.

What can be done to preserve the monograph.

Imagine a connected online web of scientific knowledge… tightly integrated with a scientific social web that directs scientists’ attention where it is most valuable, releasing enormous collaborative potential.

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.

Open access looks set to shake up the humanities and social sciences book landscape for the better.

Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.

Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.

How the humanities survive on exploitation.

In a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others.

September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth.

A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.

Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.

What benefit does a future scientist derive from knowing something about art and literature?