Happy 2022 from Gold Leaf! We apologise for not having sent our new year’s greetings sooner. We are not offering excuses for being so tardy, but if we were, we could claim that we have been waiting to get more of a grip on the lie of the land as the new year swings intoContinue reading "Belated New Year’s Greetings!"
The German new university press: small and perfectly formed or an enterprise in transition?
Gold Leaf have published a new report on German University Presses, which can be downloaded below or through the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5584519 Innovations in publishing technology and staunch commitment to Open Access have combined to produce a proliferation of “new” university presses in recent years. Often run by the university’s library by seconding a tiny groupContinue reading "The German new university press: small and perfectly formed or an enterprise in transition?"
Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021
After more than eighteen months of a face-to-face industry events famine, Back Together Again, the 2021 BA Conference which started with the Gardners Trade Show on Sunday 12th September and continued with the conference itself the following day, was an absolute triumph. It demonstrated that independent booksellers are not only alive and well, but despiteContinue reading "Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021"
The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!
Covid is still with us, along with many restrictions and quasi-restrictions, even though this summer has in some ways appeared to be more “normal”, at least in the UK, than last. “Freedom Day” happened, although it was a bit of a damp squib - essentially, it consisted of the government telling us that it isContinue reading "The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!"
Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19
Introduction “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” Dr Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1775 Dr Johnson’s words were more prophetic than he knew. He lived in an age which thought of libraries as storage houses for thousands of codex volumes. And that, of course, is what libraries continued to beContinue reading "Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19"
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