“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content […]
Internet Archive announces today the addition of over 450,000 journal articles from the JSTOR Early Journal Content collection. Early Journal Content is a selection of pre-1923 materials from more than 350 journals and includes articles in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and mathematics and other sciences. This content was digitized by JSTOR and is freely […]
Teaching Resources for GIS Educators. Teachers and learners of GIS, and related geo-technologies, want to increase the rewards while we lower the frustrations. This site, created by instructors and for instructors, is designed to support our educational community of practice.
Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics is a freely available title published by OpenBooks via Resource: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics | Eduhacker.
You will find links to both individual files and a folder containing all of materials used during the session. The materials are designed to be used sequentially, though some of them can stand alone. The documents offer probing questions, tip sheets, and guides that are useful when you begin developing a project. In case you […]
For the first time, significant portions of the New York Public Library’s digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. ApiService.
Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.
From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda’s round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – […]
New guide means citing films and audio in your content couldn’t be easier : JISC. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc report, Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education: A Progress Report with Ten Strategic Recommendations. The report found that despite the exponential increase in the use of […]
