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December 2025 Newsletter

We hope this newsletter finds you well as the festive month of December begins. We write with a big announcement about our new individual membership programme, news of recent publications, and a review of some of the highlights of our year.

Small Apocalypses

By Tricia de Souza On December 21, 2012, the world as we know it was meant to change forever. According to the Mayan long-count calendar, the day ushered a new period of history similar to the turn of the 21st century. A Reuters global poll in May 2012, however, showed

A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib

Particularly because the massive Hartlib archive has been available in digitised form since 2013, it is amazing that Hartlib himself has not been the subject of a modern English language monograph. Acceleration in the pace of Hartlib studies is essentially a characteristic of the last few years

Польові зйомки: Оцифрування документальної спадщини у складних умовах

Remote Capture is not just a technical handbook. It is a book about preserving memory and history amid loss. It walks the reader through every stage of the work—from planning the project and choosing equipment to working on the ground, creating secure copies, cataloguing, and completing a project.

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access

When a more restrictive open access licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?

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