The Penn Libraries have assembled a list of academic publishers who are making educational resources more readily available for researchers and teachers who are dealing with teaching or working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access varies by publisher but includes textbooks and some articles. Annual Reviews, for example, is making all their articles freely available,…… Continue reading Academic Publishers Make Resources Available to Cope with COVID-19
Category: Research
How to Make Battleship Curves
…the old-school way, with paperclips. David Hurst Thomas illustrates: “Seriation diagrams were once constructed by hand (literally). Frequencies of temporal types were converted to percentages, then drawn on individual strips, which were then moved up or down until they approximated a series of battleship-shaped curves (Ford, 1962: fig.8). This tedious and subjective procedure has since…… Continue reading How to Make Battleship Curves
“Dish Camp” for Historic Ceramics Aficionados-Scholarship Available
Note that the deadline for applying is coming soon! Historic Eastfield Foundation is pleased to announce that it will offer two scholarships for emerging ceramics scholars to attend the Historic Ceramics Symposium, better known as “Dish Camp”, June 23-24, 2017 at Historic Eastfield Village in East Nassau, New York. Scholarship recipients will receive a tuition…… Continue reading “Dish Camp” for Historic Ceramics Aficionados-Scholarship Available
Ignore the Horns: Physicists Explore Viking Social Networks
Real social networks (like, um, Facebook) are different from fictional social networks (like Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings). So what kind of social networks are present in the Icelandic Sagas? that’s what Statistical physicists Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron wanted to know. Veronique Greenwood at theverge.com writes about what they found.…… Continue reading Ignore the Horns: Physicists Explore Viking Social Networks
Open Access Maps
The New York Public Library has scanned and released 20,000 historical maps under a Creative Commons license, including this 1874 map of Tyrone Township showing Lamoka Lake. you can have the maps, all of them if you want, for free, in high resolution. We’ve scanned them to enable their use in the broadest possible ways…… Continue reading Open Access Maps
DIY Data Mining
Following a trail from Open Access Archaeology led to this practical guide to extracting data from documents, whether paper or digital. Whether you want to get the numbers from one table in an article cleanly into Excel, or you just got the Wikileaks download, you can find the tools in Jonathan Stray’s guide.