HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

"An open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation's living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future ­generations".

We had discussed in class about how many books we thought there were in the world. This article explains how Google reached the estimated number of books.

Helps understand different research methods and might help you understand how to make your research different.

This helped me understand archives and what its like to be an archivist.

This is an archive of google news stories. You can search for specific news events or dates and find the articles written and shared on google. I thought this was an interesting find with archives since it combined google news stories with archives we learned about today in class.

Here is a little bit of information on the National Archive's release of the Watergate scandal related Records. I found this to be super interesting! It also tells you where you can find it, what box, and how many pages each source has.

Yes, indeed -- this was big news last year.

This is a somewhat old article (published in 2005) but still has some relevancy in how musicians are looking at the positives and negatives of creative commons licenses and copyrights.

The idea of open access to scholarly journals seems to be a big debate and this article talks about how publishers make millions of dollars off of research and peer reviews that are done for free. It also talks about Aaron Swartz who led the movement for allowing access to journals by basically "stealing" them and sharing them.

This articles talks about the journal boycott of the U.K. scientists to protest the high cost of paywalls and shows the arguments on both sides- scholars and publishers.

Just a short history article regarding a fire that broke out at the Library of Congress. This ended up destroying many of the resources the library had at the time.

An article from The Guardian about the popularity of magazines amongst technology.

A few weeks late to be that relevant but I thought this was really kind of cool.

This Journal, known as Perspectives on History, runs through the American Historical Association. It gives great perspective on various aspects of history through how its being used in teaching, the media, and through the archives. For any history majors out there, I strongly recommend checking out this journal.

The ultimate guide for students who don't want to carry around their text books but still enjoy marking them up. With over 75,000 textbooks, Questia is an explosive host of information for the weary researcher. I really enjoy its easy navigation, ability to add comments in books, and wide range of topics. For an annual price of $100, I cut down on my book expenses and killed some book clutter in my apartment.

A list of some of some important people in the history of the Internet, just to give some ideas to anyone still thinking!

Article written by Tim Berners-Lee on the public's role on maintaining the principles and control of the world wide web.

Here is a good list of different people that are behind big sites on the internet.

An article about a recent incident in China where a group of people were found to be selling fake scholarly articles to academics and producing fake medical journals for sale.

This is a list of open access journals which do not meet the standards to which scholarly journals must be held, including, but not limited to, undergoing peer review. This list also contains a link to criteria scholarly journals must meet.

Harvard University has been advising its professors to publish their work to open access journals since many large journal publishers are charging higher fees.