January 2017

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The Nine Dots Prize

“It’s new, but not that new” says Professor Simon Goldhill, wrapping up his talk at CUP’s “Innovation and Insight in Publishing” session for Academic Book week.…

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Cambridge Core: a new home for future publishing

Over three years ago, we set out to replace our existing academic platforms with a new offering founded on three key goals; To bring together our journals and books content into a single platform To create the optimum user experience To develop a stable and high performing technology base to support current needs and future growth   Cambridge Core launched in September 2016.…

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Climate change helped kill off super-sized Ice Age animals in Australia

A new study in Paleobiology has compared the diet of a variety of Australian megafaunal herbivores from the period when they were widespread (350,000 to 570,000 years ago) to a period when they were in decline (30,000 to 40,000 years ago) by studying their fossil teeth. The analysis suggests that climate change had a significant impact on their diets and may well have been a primary factor in their extinction.

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Innovation in Publishing

Nisha Doshi, Digital Development Publisher Chris Fell, Digital Strategy and Partnerships Director   Why do we need to innovate?   The publishing industry is going through a period of considerable change and experimentation; although Cambridge University Press has over 400 years’ experience and success in academic publishing, we can’t rest on our laurels and we need to keep thinking about ways to do things better.…

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Deceived by Orchids

The Institute for Historical Research recently selected ten of the “most interesting articles and books” of 2016 and I was delighted to find my BJHS paper Deceived by Orchids: Sex, Science, Fiction and Darwin among them.…

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