Free the Books! The Path towards Open Access Monographs

30th March 2023, 2.30pm-4.15pm BST (15.30-17.15 CET) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter We would like to invite our readers to the new 2023 webinar series “Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the Future”, run by Gold Leaf and sponsored by De Gruyter. This webinar explores the knotty world of OpenContinueContinue reading “Free the Books! The Path towards Open Access Monographs”

White Rose University Press advocacy and communications strategy

White Rose Libraries (WRL) and Gold Leaf are very happy to announce that Gold Leaf has been appointed to work on an advocacy and communications strategy for White Rose University Press (WRUP). The project will take approximately two months to complete and will involve working with WRUP’s three parent universities – the Universities of Leeds,ContinueContinue reading White Rose University Press advocacy and communications strategy

OfS Blended learning review

This summer the Office for Students [OfS] commissioned a review of blended learning aimed at supporting the English HE sector’s understanding of how blended learning approaches might relate to the OfS’s Conditions B2 and B3, both of which concern the quality of education provided in any manner or form by or on behalf of aContinueContinue reading OfS Blended learning review

Student Angst – Five questions for today’s students

As this year’s successful A Level students prepare for university and second- and third-year undergraduates get ready to return, they have much to contend with that disturbed previous student cohorts either less or not at all. Here are 5 questions they need to address. 1. What is normal? Most of us can remember the excitementContinueContinue reading “Student Angst – Five questions for today’s students”