The University of Michigan has recently launched a new series of books on Digital Humanities "to provide a forum for ground-breaking and benchmark work in Digital Humanities". More at http://www.digitalculture.org/books/book-series/digital-humanities-series/

The first 2 titles in this series can be accessed via the UQ Library catalogue:

Teaching History in the Digital Age http://library.uq.edu.au/record=b3268601

In which the Fryer library unearths five versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and transcribes a holograph of a note about a piano.

The book:logic series of symposia was established in 2010 to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.

The 2013 Symposium will meet at UQ on Friday 4 October.

• Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. Announcement Jan 24th 2013
• The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open Access Book Publishing. Press release Jan 24th 2013
• World Allergy Organization Journal is now open access has published its first open access articles with BioMed Central.

Google Books searches the full text of books and magazines scanned by Google . It works just like web search but not all books are available in full text. If you find a book you would like and it's not available you might be able to borrow the book from a Library.

In conjunction with the Brisbane Writers Festival, on 7 September the University of Queensland Library hosted authors Drusilla Modjeska and Jon Doust in a discussion chaired by Professor <a href="http://www.brisbanew

Peter J. Dougherty, Director of Princeton University Press, reflects on how university presses are embracing new technologies to continue their role in driving global scholarship.

Brisbane author and National Year of Reading 2012 Ambassador Nick Earls will visit UQ on Wednesday 8 August to talk about his latest book, "Welcome to Normal".