Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
If you’re serving researchers who might be interested in early photographs of Japan you will want to take a look at Early Photography of Japan, “a virtual collection of more than 40 souvenir photograph albums and illustrated publications with over 2,000 images from Widener Library, the Fine Arts Library, and Harvard-Yenching Library. These images primarily [...]
Wanted to make sure you see Jennifer Howard’s Chronicle of Higher Education piece, “JSTOR Tests Free, Read-Only Access to Some Articles,” posted last Friday. It describes the new JSTOR program, Register & Read, which “will give researchers read-only access to some journal articles, no payment required. All users have to do is to sign up [...]
Adam Matthew Education has just released their new online file, The First World War: Personal Experiences/, a collection of primary source materials drawn from around the world for those studying and researching the ‘Great War.’ It’s composed of Individual Experiences, Trench Literature, and Images of War, and materials in the collection include: diaries and journals, [...]
Got an e-mail from Adam Green, one of the editors of The Public Domain Review, “a curated collection of exotic scraps and marvellous rarities” along with links “to freely distributable copies of works in online archives and from far flung corners of the web.” The editors “hope to encourage readers to further utilise and explore [...]
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