KU Leuven Libraries Artes has signed up for Sidestone Press’s library program. Sidestone Press is an academic publishing house founded by scholars, for scholars. They have one clear ambition: to make scientific information available to all. Through their digital e-book library they provide free online reading worldwide (in HTML format). Researchers and students affiliated with KU Leuven can now also freely download the PDF format of all publications and buy a print copy with 25% discount. By joining the library program we also further support their mission to continue to provide free access to their books worldwide.

Sidestone Press mainly publishes in the field of archaeology but they have a growing portfolio in other Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. All books can be accessed via our library catalogue Limo or directly via the publisher’s website, where KU Leuven users will also see the option to buy a print copy with discount.

In 2021 KU Leuven Libraries Artes is participating in 5 Evidence Based Acquisition Projects. This results in over 100.000 e-books being accessible for a period of 12 months. At the end of this period, a smaller selection of titles will be acquired (perpetual access) by the library according to collection profiles and in consultation with the academic staff, and (this is why the acquisition method is called evidence based) reinforced by usage statistics. When the EBA Project ends, the library is free to engage for another term of 12 months, thus keeping the larger (not purchased) EBA-collection accessible.

Started in January 2021

Cambridge University Press: full collection* of e-books HSS (CUP + publishing partners)
Cambridge Core – Journals & Books Online | Cambridge University Press (kuleuven.be)

Taylor & Francis (Routledge): defined set of a limited number of preselected titles
Home | Taylor & Francis Group (kuleuven.be)

New from April 2021 onwards

de Gruyter: full collection of e-books (de Gruyter + publishing partners)*
De Gruyter (kuleuven.be)

Brill: full collection of e-books
Brill | Over three centuries of scholarly publishing (kuleuven.be)

Benjamins: full collection of e-books
Books | John Benjamins (kuleuven.be)

*not included: HTML text books, Cambridge Companions, Cambridge Histories

Library Central Services is working hard in order to make all individual titles accessible through Limo. There may, however, be a delay of up to one month in adding newly published titles. In the meantime, those titles can be accessed directly on the publisher’s platform.

The Parthenos Standardization Survival Kit shows how researchers can use a range of tools, methods, and data standards to create a standardized research workflow, depending on their discipline, chosen approach, specific research materials, and so on. What sort of workflow is good for creating 3D reconstructions in archaeology? Or interoperable TEI text resources? What specific tools are other researchers using for data gathering, annotation, or publishing? How are they working with images, texts, or artifacts?

In short, this is great tool to explore concrete ways to make a research project better with standards. You can also add your own workflows.