Giovanna Ceserani’s latest book, A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour, is an open-access, digital publication released in June 2024 by Stanford University Press. In celebration of Open Access Week, Ceserani writes about her motivation to publish her book in an open-access, digital format. 

Yousuf Saeed, Co-founder and project director of Tasveer Ghar, and International Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, reflects on digitizing and archiving South Asian bazaar art, and the question of the intellectual property and community ownership of popular art at Tasveer Ghar.

I've just finished a review of a recent monograph on a mediaeval Arabic scholar in which I noted a few translation and typographical errors, commended the philology involved, and gave a synopsis of the contents. So much, so unsurprising; this is the way my field works.