Gleebox

Like most people who have had RSI, I sympathise with the words of the Cole Porter song: Comes the measles, you can quarantine the room. Comes a mouse, you can chase it with a broom. When my RSI has been at its worst I have unplugged my mouse and put it away, so that I...

Non-standard citation metrics

Noam Chomsky We’re all familiar with traditional citation metrics: you measure references to books, articles, and people, and those references occur in other books and articles. For example between 1980 and 1992, according to this article, the linguistics maven...

Historical Research, August 2012

The August 2012 issue of Historical Research is now available. Contents include articles on ‘John Cabot and his Italian financiers’ by Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli; ‘The medicalization of poverty in colonial India’ by David Arnold; ‘The...

Assessing hidden savings in using British History Online

During June 2012, we undertook a survey of British History Online’s registered user base looking at their opinions towards the issue of sustainability. This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we explore the results and deals specifically with the...

Data preservation for historians

When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data?  Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what?  Have you considered how you might make your data available...

Free Data Preservation course on History SPOT

When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data?  Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what?  Have you considered how you might make your data available...