November 19, 2009 – 12:54 pm
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/…
JISC and Oxford University are marking this year’s Armistice by launching the first ever online collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his war poetry.
This is the first time these have gone online and they present a comprehensive collection of his war poetry, reassembled from collections across the world.
The work, which will be [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:53 pm
nbsp;http://www.quartos.org/
For the first time, digitized copies of rare early editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been compiled into a single online collection. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive www.quartos.org) makes digitized versions of the play drawn from libraries in the US and the UK freely available to researchers worldwide.
source: DigitalKoans
November 16, 2009 – 2:16 pm
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programme…
The Exposing Marandet project has made openly and freely available a coherent set of pamphlets during a seminal period of French history. The archive will be an essential part of teaching at the University of Warwick, and of interest to a broad audience of enthusiasts and researchers
October 30, 2009 – 12:42 pm
nbsp;http://amser.org
AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.
source: Scout report
October 30, 2009 – 12:40 pm
nbsp;http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/
This impressive portal (referred to in the shorthand as “BEN”), was created by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in order to bring high- quality educational resources to science educators everywhere. The entire project is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the resources here total over 14,000, and they [...]
October 19, 2009 – 1:52 pm
nbsp;http://www.biomedcentral.com/gateways/st…
“Welcome to BioMed Central’s Stem Cells Gateway, highlighting the latest articles we have published in this field. Content is continually updated, so please bookmark this page and ensure you check it regularly.”
October 9, 2009 – 1:31 pm
nbsp;http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/
A collection of British Historical Population Reports
The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:55 pm
nbsp;http://www.squidoo.com/researchinformati…
What information is available without the need for paid subscription?
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk) leads to increasing numbers of articles and books – but many (most?) of the items retrieved can only be read on payment of a fee. (Tip – sometimes a revised search in the main version of Google, using the title of an article [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:41 pm
nbsp;http://www.confusingwords.com/
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.
source: IRN
October 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm
nbsp;http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/wwiposhtml/wwip…
During World War I, the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history. The ability of posters to inspire, inform, and persuade combined with vibrant design trends in many of the participating countries to produce thousands of interesting visual works. The Library of Congress [...]
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