Reflecting on publishing and research culture during Open Access week 2025 – with Dr Karen Attar - University of London Press

At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher.

In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures.

In our next post in the series, we talk to Karen Attar, co-editor of Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction. Karen Attar is the Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and a former Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She edited among other works the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Facet, 2016). She has published widely on aspects of library history.