Announcements

Hertie School and CIVICA: Open Science Communities

The Hertie School Library is involved in the CIVICA Alliance’s initiatives to promote Open Science and serves as co-lead of the Open Science working group. Through joint projects, shared expertise and community events, CIVICA’s Open Science communities collaborate to promote transparent, accessible and responsible research across all member institutions.
You can find out more on the CIVICA Open Science website and in the short video below: 

Open Access at CIVICA

Book recommendations

Writing with Style

We'd all like to write with style. But what does that mean, and what can we learn from "The Economist," a publication well known for its clarity and flair? Welcome to "Writing with Style," an elegant survey of the principles available for writing better prose.

The CQ Press Writing Guide for Public Policy

The guide is loaded with rich real-world examples that help you translate policy analysis into clear policy recommendations. Author Andrew Pennock presents step-by-step instructions on how to write for a variety of genres – including policy memos, briefs, op-eds, press releases, written testimony, social media, and emails – in a style that policy makers expect. It helps you create and organise an argument based on the needs and expectations of policy makers.

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology examines the ideological origins, societal implications, and the relative global influence of three contrasting regulatory approaches toward the digital economy: the American market-driven regulatory model, the Chinese state-driven regulatory model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model.