The Perdita Project is an online collection of Early Modern (1500s to 1820s) period manuscripts by women. It is a collaborative project funded until 2002 by the AHRB, Nottingham Trent University, and Warwick University. So far it links to over 400 manuscripts around the world.
The catalog is viewable either as frames-based or frameless. The frame [...]
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Lost women writers of the Early Modern period unleashed
Posted in Academic, Digital, Links, Publishing on Monday, February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The real X-files, British style
Posted in Digital, Eh?, Links, Publishing, Service, Word soup on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Creator: Level1librarian
Date created: Oct 21, 2008
Filed under: Fascinating
The British National Archives has published a second batch of UFO reports by the Ministry of Defense.
“These files contain reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) between 1986 and 1992. Highlights include the near collision of a passenger jet and UFO in Kent and the pilots of a [...]
Online vs. print publishing
Posted in Future, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The opinion piece It’s the End of Publishing as We Know It by Anders Bylund mentions an online magazine sharing site that resembles (illegal) file-sharing services. The point, however, is this:
“If Mygazines teaches Time anything, it would be how to present the print magazine in a tasty online form, easy to navigate and easy [...]
Tips on blogging, blog readers, and RSS
Posted in Blogging, Clever, Links, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Saturday, April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few links on how to improve ur Internets:
14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com lists less talked about services like sending any RSS updates to your email and converting news feeds to speech.
10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader from Lifehack. Via LibrarianInBlack. [...]
7 things about Lulu
Posted in Publishing on Sunday, January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article with 7 Things You Should Know About Lulu – a self-publishing service – is available from Educause Connect.
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
