At a recent IHR conference, IHR Digital gave a presentation on digital resources to a group of senior academics and budding historians from China. One of the discussions centred around the paucity of Chinese digital resources. Surprisingly within weeks, and rather...
Our photo competition is ongoing through the summer, when we will be celebrating British History Online’s 10th anniversary. As with last month, a great variety of images were added our BHO Flickr group. This month we shortlisted three, not because the quality of...
Historians don’t often like to think about data management. Indeed, it is almost considered an ugly word or a taboo. Data Management gets in the way of the interesting stuff – the research, the learning. Nevertheless, it is vital to the work that we do. History is...
On 21 March 2013, the British Academy published a response to RCUK’s revised open access policy and guidelines. The statement contrasts the limited time period available for consultation unfavourably with the more considered approach being taken by HEFCE, and...
Our Permissions Controller for the digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, Rachael Lazenby, has written an introductory guide to copyright for images, drawing on her experience on this project and on other work that she has done. Part...
The last six months have seen a large number of open access events, and at all of them there has been some discussion about the need to gather evidence – whether of the benefits of open access, its potential effect on learned societies, current publishing...
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