Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key drivers, opportunities, and challenges. The concept of open research is reconfiguring scholarly communication acro…
he International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory is the annual conference organised by the Orpheus Research Centre. For the Academy, a selected guest faculty with outstanding expertise in a specific topic is invited to attend a series of lectures and to write an individual essay. All researchers from the Orpheus Research Centre, as well as th…
There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China, and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases, embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things. He gave him such grand descriptions of foreign countries and costumes, that Gaspar was not at all satisfied to live in a small village, where the people dressed in the most commonplace way. At school he was a…