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And so the British Academy has begun mobilizing its community of social scientists and humanities scholars to support the United Kingdom’s government and its populace as they fight the COVID pandemic today and deal with its impacts tomorrow.

The British Academy is honoring political journalists Zeinab Badawi and Dame Frances Cairncross among a number of individuals awarded for their services to the humanities and social sciences.

A record 76 academics — four of them alumni of the Social Science Bites podcast series here at Social Science Space — have been elected as fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.

The British Academy last week elected a full slate of distinguished UK academics from 19 universities as fellows for 2014. […]

Monographs are an intrinsically important mode of academic production and must not be sacrificed on the altar of open access, argues Nigel Vincent in Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy.

Open movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar […]

Open Access (OA) is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and […]

The issue of OA is technically, culturally and politically complex and deserves careful engagement by all scholars, writes Stephen Curry […]

In his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from […]

Academic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled […]

The principles underlying the Finch report – access, usability, quality, cost and sustainability – are broadly to be commended, writes […]

Learned societies are a fundamental part of the research ecology, providing a substantial intellectual, public and reputational good, at minimal […]