The latest installment of Digital Campus is now up online for your listening pleasure. In this episode (#42 if you’re counting), Tom, Dan, and I consider what happens when reputable publishers of scholarly journals publish journals that are, well, not so reputable. We also take a look at the latest attempt to take some of…
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New Data from D.C.
The U.S. government is beginning to post its vast collection of data sets online. At the moment, there are only 47 data sets posted at data.gov and most of these are geological or weather related. However, it won’t be long (I’m told) before data of greater interest to historians begin to appear. I, for one,…
Zotero 2.0
[This post originally appeared in the blog hist.net.] Zotero 2.0 became available for public download on May 14. This new version of Zotero provides many exciting features that unlock the research archives of individual scholars making those research archives (or portions of those archives) available for a wider audience. Think about it this way. In…
Stan Katz Knows
In the most recent episode of Digital Campus, Dan and I interviewed Stan Katz (Princeton) about his role in promoting digital history over the past 20 (yes, 20) years. Tom couldn’t join us for the episode because he was at home with the Scheinfeldt family’s new baby. I suppose that qualifies as an excuse. If…