Alternatives to Google

For the past few months, after years of having Google’s search screen as my homepage, I have been trying an alternative search engine. I had been reading  Karen Blakeman’s blog for a while, and in this post she recommended using four other search engines,...

British Parliaments and Assemblies: A Bibliography of Printed Materials

The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust and Wiley have published online the British Parliaments and Assemblies: A Bibliography of Printed Materials. It is freely accessible to all who are interested in the history of British parliaments. With over 21,500 entries and,...

The digital history of mathematics

There is a joke among mathematicians that if you have an idea that no one has ever had before you should check, before publishing, that it’s not in Gauss’s papers. Gauss seems to have anticipated later findings across practically all areas of mathematics,...

Exploring the Domain Dark Archive

Bookings are open now for the first of a series of day workshops on the Domain Dark Archive, a comprehensive archive of websites from the UK web domain for the period 1996 to 2010. Our new JISC-funded AADDA project (Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive) is a...

Searching for condoms on ECCO

Perhaps it’s the library geek in me but I enjoy articles which describe the construction and improvement of online searching. One such piece is by Patrick Spedding about using the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). This collection is derived from the...