available to only those who can afford it.
It's like if people can't afford to pay for a subscription to a literary journal or magazine, then they can't have access to it at all. This is why public libraries are so important. People have access to information for free.
Subscription-based publishing’s increasingly high costs make research inaccessible for researchers, as well as potential readers.
They're limiting their audience. If they made their work free and public, then more people can read their work. If people don't have access to it, then how is their name going to get out there?
aren’t always available to the public.
This makes things difficult when students are trying to do research for papers and need more credible sources.
digital technologies are enabling researchers to rethink research, publication and teaching.
Is that to say they're making things more accessible to people with learning disabilities? People who have dyslexia may benefit from visual aids with fewer passages or texts to read. Audio books and recordings of texts may help as well.
communication is a two-body problem
I haven't thought about it this way, but it's true. People need to be open to new forms of communication. New information must be presented in a way that is easy to understand for all readers.
novelist Charles Dickens, for example, worked at the age of 12 in a blacking factory, with his family in a debtors' prison.
Dickens' experiences working in a blacking factory at such a young age is likely the inspiration for some of his novels such as "Oliver Twist". The novel is about an orphan boy named Oliver Twist who ends up living on the streets with other orphan children.
Virginia Woolf said the angel had to be killed.
Virginia Woolf wrote about women needing to have the space to write, think, and be themselves in "A Room of One's Own". Women need their own space to express themselves and expand their ideas.
They instead concentrated on the argument that it was not necessary to believe in God in order to behave in moral fashion.
I feel this is an important point that was over looked then and forgotten now. People can be good people and not have a religious background or upbringing.
imprisoned for blasphemy in the 1840s.
People were send to jail because their opinions were considered blasphemous.
Blasphemy laws meant that promoting atheism could be a crime and was vigorously prosecuted.
I find it interesting that religion was such an important part of people's everyday lives back then. People were punished because they didn't believe in God, or they didn't practice the religion they were supposed to.
Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign,
That's why it's called the Victorian era.
the world we inhabit bears the traces of the nineteenth century,
They're saying that elements of the nineteenth century are still present today in the twenty first century. I can understand what the author is saying here.
We must rigorously articulate what it is we are doing when we work within particular historical frames.
I think they are saying that when looking at or analyzing specific time periods, we have to clearly state what we are doing. I'm going to be honest, I don't really know what's going on in this article.
wie es eigentlich gewesen
What does this mean? It looks German.