To register to participate in this blogging unconference, please use the form at the bottom of this page. Open Access Week 2012 will take place October 22-28 all over the world. Networked Researcher is convinced, as the Open Access Week web site says, that “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to […]
Sunday the 2nd of September Lynn H.Nelson, American Pioneer of the Digital Humanities and Digital History passed away. He was born the 21st September 1931 in Harvey, Illinois, USA. He entered the University of Chicago in 1948, receiving the AB degree in 1950. He served in the United States Army 1952-1954 and spent the years […]
In August 2012, Cambridge University Presses published “The Dynamiters. Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900“, by Niall Whelehan, (National University of Ireland, Galway). ThePh.D. Thesis was defended in the EUI History & Civilisation’s Department in September 2009. The Thesis can be consulted in the EUI Library and/or requested abroad through the […]
The Twitter account @FakeElsevier informs about initiative worldwide against the costs that libraries have to sustain for subscribing to Elsevier journals. Today the Department of Mathematics at the Technological University of Munich has decided to cancel Elsevier journal’s subscriptions for 2013: Aufgrund unzumutbarer Kosten und Bezugsbedingungen hat das Direktorium des Zentrums Mathematik beschlossen, alle abonnierten […]
At the end of the XXth century, we would have used the name L.A.S.E. to describe a limited area search engine like ISIDORE, looking for Social Sciences and Humanities annotated and curated scholarly contents in the web. ISIDORE is extremely useful for accessing digital contents in the “Sciences Humaines et Sociales” as they are called […]
This reference work -a portal for accessing biographies- will grow further and include other European countries. At the moment it includes Austria, Germany and Switzerland. I have copied/pasted the information from the portal itself here. More information and contacts are available here: [email protected] This work has been indexed in the EUI Library History Guide, A-Z Electronic […]
