Resource: Free Access to Scientific American 1845-1909 archive through 11/30/11
Nature Publishing Group is providing complimentary access to the 1845-1909 archive of Scientific American through November 30, 2011.
Category: News
Resource: Library for the R Programming Language
I have gathered together much of the code from my series of posts on Exploring Art Data as a library for the R programming language which is now available as a package on R-Forge: https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rca/.
Resource: The Project One-Pager
By Tito Sierra
The Project One-Pager: A Simple Tool for Collaboratively Defining Project Scope
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Report: Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success
SPARC and the Academic Resources Coalition have released Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Research Report, Version 1.0.
Report: Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age
Europe’s leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and galleries, significant strands of Humanities research would not be possible.
CFP: rhetoric and the digital humanities
This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section will consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology.
Report: “Knowledge machines between freedom and control” meeting
The idea of the event “Knowledge machines between freedom and control” was to bring together researchers, artists and programmers dealing with search engines and new media in a more general sense.
Report: Open Access Week 2011: Wrap-Up and Resources
The event’s tagline, “Learn Share Advance”, encourages us to consider how “open access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted.”
Resource: Announcing OccupyArchive.org
#OccupyArchive (occupyarchive.org), is an effort to collect, preserve, and share the stories and born-digital materials of Occupy Wall Street and the associated Occupy movements around the world.
Job: History and Digital Humanities Liaison Librarian, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
The History and Digital Humanities Liaison Librarian works collaboratively with faculty, staff and students to provide research and instructional services in history; provides collection development; serves as liaison to the History Department, and related studies;