The Prado museum in Spain freely shares 6,000 art history books and nearly as many magazines. Regrettably, their website is so painfully slow that I wasn’t able to test it.
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27 Friday Sep 2024
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inThe Prado museum in Spain freely shares 6,000 art history books and nearly as many magazines. Regrettably, their website is so painfully slow that I wasn’t able to test it.
25 Wednesday Sep 2024
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inFrom COAR, a handy new one-page Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories (DOAPR). These are not being added en masse to JURN, I should perhaps add.
23 Sunday Jun 2024
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inNew in open source, Tagasuarus for annotating a locally-stored collection of media and documents. Images, audio, video, PDFs. The annotations are then stored with the files, and can then be searched across. No full AI to add rich image classifications, as yet. But there is a limited AI that can “automatically apply emotions [tags] when the images/videos have faces”.
14 Tuesday May 2024
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inNew in open access, the article “Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities”. Actually, not proper open access, as it appears you need to “log in” to Wiley to download or print (neither works for me without a log in). Thankfully Google Scholar is on the case, and having none of that nonsense — searching for the title there gets you a download link. The article is based on a spring 2020 survey of 194 learned societies in the UK and Europe. One finding is that…
Contrary to previous research, most SSH societies in our study have not undergone significant changes in the past 5 years, challenging expectations of their declining role.
28 Sunday Apr 2024
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inChuck Jones has updated his list of Ancient World Open Access Journals that are active and open to submissions.
28 Sunday Apr 2024
Where’s Your Ed At? has a good long look for, and at, “The Man Who Killed Google Search”.
26 Tuesday Mar 2024
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inRun private offline ‘chat’ AIs on Windows, without wasting a day on a frustratingly complex and fiddly Python-based setup and install. The free LM Studio makes discovery, downloading and running chat LLM AI’s as easy as installing any other Windows software. A good graphics card is required to run your selected AI chat. Note also that the LM Studio wrapper requires a PC with a processor that supports AVX2, if not one with a dedicated NPU. There’s also a beta release that supports older plain AVX processors.
16 Saturday Mar 2024
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inAs AI opens up the possibilities of mass cuneiform tablet transcription and translation, the question arises… where are the tablets? The website Where is the Cuneiform? aims to get researchers over that initial hurdle. U.S only, at present.
08 Friday Mar 2024
I’m pleased to learn about London’s annual Researcher to Reader Conference, which focusses on getting research to interested readers. Information Today has a detailed report of the February 2024 event…
even today, in 2024, we don’t have consistent metadata to identify the article type in many cases with certainty (is it a research article? A review article? An editorial?) nor even the corresponding author of an article, let alone knowing how much a university is paying publishers for APCs to publish articles. Would any other industry tolerate such vagueness?
24 Saturday Feb 2024
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inNew on Archive.org, a long run of the journal Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos.