Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences have announced that the British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will be updated with 28 new titles on January 31, 2013. British Academy Publications Online is an online collection of academic monographs and essay collections from the distinguished British Academy list.
Titles are being added to nine of the fourteen modules, including In Defence of Learning, which is being added to the Sociology module. For the various series included within BAPO, all front-list titles will also be made available on the site for the first time.
British Academy Publications Online is designed to provide a seamless research experience that will bring efficiency for students and scholars alike. All the titles published on British Academy Publications Online are available as full texts, with abstracts at book and chapter level providing a quick overview to guide users to the content they want. The intuitive search and browse capabilities, extensive cross-linking, and numerous options to share and view the content, support an innovative and productive learning environment.
This update reflects the traditional strengths of the British Academy's list in history and classical studies, but there are also important contributions in anthropology, economics and finance, linguistics, music, philosophy, religion, and sociology. Some truly stand out texts are to be added on January 31. These noteworthy titles include Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies, edited by Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek; Free Will and Modern Science, edited by Richard Swinburne; and Archaeology and Language in the Andes, edited by Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones.
The British Academy for the humanities and social sciences was established by Royal Charter in 1902. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence and high achievement in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value. With an international reputation for its support of excellence in academic scholarship, the British Academy produces academic publications that are designed to stimulate curiosity, inspire and develop future generations of scholars, and encourage appreciation of the social and cultural value of these disciplines.
