Can you deposit your article on a departmental webpage? Check out SHERPA-RoMEO

Can you deposit your article in your institutional repository or on a departmental webpage? Want to put your work online, but worried about copyright? Do your grant conditions affect where you can publish your work? Use RoMEO and JULIET to find out if your research funder requires you to deposit your article in a repository [...]

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New: Queen Victoria’s Journals (1832-1901)

Queen Victoria’s Journals is a website which reproduces every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria’s journals (including draft volumes and copies made by Lord Esher and Princess Beatrice). It provides full transcriptions and keyword searching of the journal entries covering the period from Queen Victoria’s first diary entry in July 1832 to 13 [...]

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19000 images from Walters Art Museum added to Wikimedia Commons

19000 art images from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA have been added to the Wikimedia Commons website under creative commons licenses.  There are digitial images of paintings, sketches, books and objects.  You can limit your search on Wikimedia to this collection only by searching for by entering “Walters Art Museum” and any [...]

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Access to Radical History Review restored

News for Oxford users: it’s just been reported that access to Radical History Review has now been restored. It was a technical problem which was finally identified and now fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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Problems accessing Oxford Reference Online? here are some tips

Oxford users may find that there are intermittent problems accessing Oxford Reference Online, even if they are on-campus. This is being investigated, but in the meantime here are some instructions how still gain access: 1. From SOLO or OxLIP+, follow the link to the ORO title you are interested in. 2. If you are prompted [...]

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Trial until 31 May: Dictionnaires des XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Dictionnaires des XVIe et XVIIe siècles is on trial for Oxford users until the end of May. It is a database of ten historical French dictionaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It allows you to search these dictionaries all at the same time. Dictionnaire françois-latin de Robert Estienne, Paris, 1549 Thresor de la langue [...]

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New: online Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)

Oxford users now have access to the online version of Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). A well-known printed reference work, the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) is a German biographical encyclopedia related to the history of the Church, founded 1975 by Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. It contains more than 20,000 biographical articles with bibliographies of the person’s work and selected [...]

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Mapping Gothic France

Vassar’s Andrew Tallon and Columbia’s Stephen Murray have recently unveiled their digital project to document the architectural monuments of 12-13-century France, entitled “Mapping Gothic France”.  This is an open-source, open access project available on the web at: www.mappinggothicfrance.org The site consists of hundreds of dynamic, panoramic images, mapped to each monument, and accompanied by contextual [...]

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Historical statistics and censuses on the web: suggestions

I’ve had occasion to research some online resources for historical statistics, usually digitised statistical series rather than proper databases. They tendcover vital statistics, population & demographic, economic and finance data. Some also include census data and census reports. Below is a listing of some of the findings. It is not comprehensive! Do make suggestions for [...]

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National Gallery of Art offering open access images

The National Gallery of Art has launched NGA Images at http://images.nga.gov.  NGA Images is a digital image repository of National Gallery of Art collections, which allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain.  Many of the open access images have been digitized with the generous support of [...]

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