HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

World Wide Web creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is leading a coalition to bring cheaper internet to developing countries in Africa. The coalition includes Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, and others.

Gives the definition of a Primary Source and how/when to use them! Plus it gives great examples of what a Primary Source actually is!

Great article that shows exactly how important peer revision is in not only student work but scholarly work as well. This is a question on the test so this article might help out in that sense as well!

Provides an explanation of algorithms in terms of programming. Skip down to the "Computer Algorithms" section

Interesting blog post about why and how Project Gutenberg was founded and started by Micheal Hart

Interesting article on how the Fairfax Country Library is throwing away a lot of their books. Makes one think about the future (or lack thereof) of libraries

Good article on federally funded research to be freely accessible over the internet. It's the second article on the page.

Defines web crawler and describes web crawling software

Definitions of both primary and secondary sources as well as a thorough explanation of when to use a primary or secondary source.

A checklist for distinguishing scholarly periodicals from non scholarly periodicals.

It can be a little bit of off-topic but this is a very interesting video that my communication professor showed class before. The video basically tells you how much the internet and the social media affect our lives these days. Even though we have already known that the internet is hugely influential, you'll probably be surprised while you watch this video.

This article is from the perspective of a university instruction coordinator and details concerns about JSTOR and how it is limiting information to students.

This is a free website that allows users to search for books not only by the title or author, but by ISBN numbers. I found this helpful for when textbooks are hard to find. Instructors usually provide the ISBN numbers in their syllabi and this is one resource a student could use to locate out-of-stock books.

Five risks you may not have known about using proxy servers to access websites.

the difference between scholarly journals and magazines in different ways.

Here is a list of people who are inductees for this year hall of fame, in case anyone still needs a person to do their project about.

This is just a Wikipedia article about the history of music publishing but I shared it because I remember my music prof. at Mason talking about Stephan Foster being the first songwriter who got copyright over his material and he is mentioned in this post. Its interesting to see how far back the laws go in different countries.