https://kottke.org/21/02/earliest-globe-americas-leonardo-da-vinci-1504
Kategorie: English Corner
Federal Web Governance Under the Trump Administration
Online Exhibition Explores Palmyra
7 Useful Web Radio Stations for Music Listening
AHA Letter of Support for Institute of Political History in Hungary
The AHA sent a letter to the president of Hungary expressing “deep concern about recent government actions against the Institute of Political History,” including “unfounded attacks on our colleagues,” “eviction from its new premises,” and “defunding.” https://t.co/FDTYEmNJor
— American Historical Association (@AHAhistorians) February 26, 2021
Images of over 330 printers’ devices from the Yale Law Library’s Rare Book Collection are now available in Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yalelawlibrary/albums/72157715339319198
https://library.law.yale.edu/news/printers-devices-law-books
Does Yale not have a proper image database?
#buchgeschichte
Sinai manuscripts – Login required!
This is great news! Hundreds of Syriac and Arabic Manuscripts from Sinai are now online in high-quality digitized images:https://t.co/ShXyRg6fqO pic.twitter.com/cFVvKGlddS
— Adrian Pirtea (@AdrianPirtea) February 20, 2021
Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash
Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash. "The only regret the men have, is that they didn't start collecting sooner."https://t.co/wWpWAeFA2H pic.twitter.com/hDNEUhuMNt
— Caroline de Gruyter (@CarolineGruyter) February 19, 2021
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
A directory of 2,000+ open textbooks
Çatalhöyük image collection released
Free Kindle Ebooks on Amazon
Many Kindle books are free (gratis), but Amazon makes them hard to find. Here's how to find them with Google. https://t.co/rE2nbJHsNt
— Peter Suber (@petersuber) February 15, 2021
Japanese National Diet Library Digital Collections have only 20 old western books
The Wiener Holocaust Library plans to upload its entire collection of survivor accounts by the end of the year
Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love
Over 80,000 pages of Rare Renaissance Texts paywalled
Inside the Dark Library: A Review of Book Tombs by Erik W. Steinhauer
The clash between domestic and Western traditions: Japanese understanding of the archival principles
https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2021.1872034 (Open Access)
The Internet Archive Has the World’s Largest Music Collection
After Brexit: „We must stop associating English with the British flag“
Revisiting Nicholson Baker and Retention of Print
Egypt repatriates 5,000 manuscripts, pieces of papyrus from USA
„A large group of Egyptian artifacts that were in the possession of the Holy Bible Museum in Washington, USA, arrived at Cairo International Airport on January 27, as a result of the great efforts exerted by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the concerned American authorities.“
Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free
How NARA’s Preserving More Than 20 Terabytes of Trump Social Media Data
Ireland: National Archives launches 1990 Government files exhibition
Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up
Analysis of hundreds of articles in predatory titles shows that 60% have never been cited
Boston Public Library makes 8000+ historical images available for use in Wikipedia
https://www.bpl.org/news/bpl-dpla-wikipedia/
By This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Boston Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Digital Commonwealth.
Boston Public Library identifier: Local accession: List(09_06_000002); Local other: List(Cab 23.41.1); Local call: List(); Local barcode: List()
Source record: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796j511
DPLA identifier: 85f9bf772ad3a2895fa628a38ac17a13
, Public Domain, Link
For 75th Anniversary of Nuremberg Trials, Museum Makes Available War Crimes Trial Recordings, Film
Alfred Rosenberg über die Anfänge der NSDAP:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn616442 (ab 2:04)
Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-account-sci-hub-pirated-papers-website
„Twitter last week permanently suspended the account of Sci-Hub, the website that has posted millions of freely accessible copies of scientific articles pirated from subscription journals. Twitter said Sci-Hub had violated its policy against promoting “counterfeit goods,” according to Sci-Hub’s founder, Alexandra Elbakyan.
The notification came shortly after a 6 January court hearing in India about a lawsuit filed by three of the world’s largest journal publishers—Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society—which are seeking to block public access to Sci-Hub in that country because of copyright infringement. Elbakyan says Sci-Hub’s defense to the suit, filed in December 2020, will rely in part on tweets from Indian scientists who have said they support continued access to Sci-Hub because they cannot afford subscriptions to journal content.“
On Sci Hub: