Humanimalia : a journal of human/animal interface studies
Humanimalia is a full-text peer-reviewed ejournal, freely available online and published from DePauw University. Humanimalia aims to publish three times per year, and the first issue was published in August 2009. This online journal publishes HTML papers and reviews on the topic of human-animal encounters, covering fields such as contemporary philosophy, cultural studies, sci-art, and storytelling. Example articles available in the first issue include: 'Animal Farm's Lessons for Literary (and
DigiIslam
This is a the website of DigiIslam, a project which completed, in 2008, a review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies. This study was funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme. From the home page you may download a PDF of the final report which details the project's work to plot existing digitised resources (mainly online) and to identify gaps in the provision of digitised resources for Islamic Studies. This also looks at establishing criteria for prioritizing potentia
World wide web of humanities (WWoH)
This Web page from the JISC Digitisation Programme details the work done by academics at the University of Oxford and at the Internet archiving bodies - Hanzo and the Internet Archive - to establish comprehensive collections of archived humanities research websites on the First World War and the Second World War. This work was done in an effort to demonstrate a framework for 'e-Humanities' (also called Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing) research using available open source tools and tec
Italian academies, 1530-1700: a themed collection database
This website provides access to a bibliography of the British Library’s exceptional collection of material from the Italian Learned Academies of the late Renaissance and early modern periods. During the period covered, the Academies had a vital role in the intellectual culture of Italy and beyond, yet the only comprehensive work available to scholars (Michele Maylender’s ‘Storia delle Accademie d'Italia’) is over 50 years old and in “needs to be in many cases corrected, and updated in the l
Cadernos de história da educação
'Cadernos de história da educação' is an online scholarly journal published in Portuguese addressing itself to educational history in Brazil. It is published by the Educational History Unit of the Faculty of Education at the Universidade Federal da Uberlândia. It first came out in 2002, already in an electronic format in addition to the printed one. Its annual volumes originally focused upon the history of education in one particular state of Brazil, but later issues also embrace wider issu
Faces of power and piety : medieval portraiture
Part of the J. Paul Getty Museum website, this online resource was produced to complement their exhibition, which ran from 12 August to 26 October 2008, entitled 'Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture', and which featured portraits from illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages (circa 500-1500). Medieval portraiture does not present us with a precise likeness of the subject, but instead depicts clothing, heraldry or other objects relating to them. As the website states "the goal of med
Archives of Maryland online
This website, the Archives of Maryland Online, 'provides access [as of October 2009] to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government'. The simple to use website is split into several subcategories (including, but not limited to, slavery commission, session laws, fiscal records, judicial records, constitutional records, and so on) aims to provide researchers, scholars and interested amateurs with t
V&A online journal
This Web page gives access to all issues of the 'V&A Online Journal', a free full-text research journal. This annual ejournal is published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At December 2009 there are two issues online, with articles published as HTML pages. Example scholarly articles include: 'James "Athenian" Stuart: The Architect as Landscape Painter'; 'Doing Time: Patchwork as a Tool of Social Rehabilitation in British Prisons'; 'Computer Art at the V&A'; and 'The Film Work of Sta
Argumentum : the peer-reviewed electronic journal of the graduate school for linguistics, University
This is the home page of the "Argumentum", the peer-reviewed e-journal published by the Graduate School for Linguistics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. The site is bilingual, Hungarian and English, thus being available to a wide scholarly audience. However, the introduction and the guidelines for submissions of articles are written only in Hungarian. The English version of these can be read under the "technical guide". Argumentum is published once a year. The articles in the review are w
Netherlands decorated books collection : London College of Communication
This website provides information about a small collection of decorated books on from the London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts London, that has been digitised and made available online by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). The LCC's collection of decorated Dutch books provides primary source material for bookbinding research and is also of use to graphic design and typographical researchers. The collection covers the period 1893-1939, and includes bindings in the
ArtCultura : revista do Instituto de história, cultura e arte da Universidade Federal de Uberlândi
The online journal 'Revista de história, cultura e arte' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute of History and Postgraduate Studies of the Federal University of Uberlândia twice a year, carrying articles and book reviews in the field of history, literary and cultural history of Brazil and Europe. Topics are varied in range, including essays on 19th century French symbolist poetry and Brazilian photography. One major section in each issue is devoted to 'History, art an
Coins and Medals of Imperial Russia
Coins and Medals of Imperial Russia is an online exhibition of the Russian coins housed at Yale University, dating from the reign of Ivan IV to Nicholas II. The exhibition is organised into chronological periods (by monarch), each with a brief summary of significant historical and monetary events, and clickable thumbnails of coins from the period. The quality of images is excellent, and both sides of each coin are shown. Separate pages catalogue: commemorative medals (such as the one struck to c
Oklikni ulitsy Moskvy...
Oklikni ulitsy Moskvy [Call out Moscow streets] is a project exploring the historical names and topography of Moscow, created by a professor of philology. The site consists of: a typographical dictionary of stream, river, pond, lake and ravine names; an anthology of poetry about Moscow arranged chronologically (1825-1999); academic articles and reports about Moscow names (including material relating to the post-Soviet revision of place names); ‘imia-istoriia-kul’tura’ [name-history-culture],
Nordisk netværk for retorikkens historie
Nordisk Netværk for retorikkens historie (NNRH, Nordic network for the history of rhetoric) supports the development of scholarship in the history of rhetoric across Scandinavia, and promotes collaboration between researchers in Sweden; Finland; Denmark; Norway; and Iceland. It also aims to make Scandinavian work on the history of rhetoric available to an international academic audience. The NNRH website, some of which is available in English, contains details of conferences, symposia and new p
Medieval Rus'
Medieval Rus’ is a resource designed to support the study of medieval Russian literature, developed by prominent medieval Slavicist David Birnbaum and his graduate students. The site offers: glossaries of church architecture and Christian festivals; external links to historical maps and genealogies; links to relevant associations and mailing lists; but its most useful features are to be found under ‘syllabus’. The four unit course (Kievan Rus 988-1240; Mongol Russia 1240-1480; Muscovy 1480-1
Human Tissue Authority codes of practice
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) revised codes of practice came into force in September 2009. The revised codes provide guidance and advice and expected standards for all the sectors regulated by the HTA. Each code is provided in an interactive format providing easy access to the different sections, with links to other relevant issues and documents and a pop-up glossary. There are nine codes, covering post-mortem examination; consent, donation of solid organs for transplantation; anatomical exam
Management of unerupted maxillary incisors
This guideline ‘Management of unerupted maxillary incisors’ was published in April 2010 by the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England. This guideline considers diagnosis and management, incidence/prevalence, detection of causes of failure of eruption, examination, and management principles. References are provided.
Survival Rivals
Wellcome Trust have developed these secondary school level educational resources as part of Darwin 200, a national programme of events which honour Darwin’s scientific ideas and their impact. The resources comprise hands-on experiments which are available free and which are designed to assist young people to view how Darwin’s ideas are connected to modern evolutionary principles and contemporary biomedicine. The three resources include ‘I’m a worm, get me out of here’ for 11-14 year olds ex
“Discoveries and breakthroughs inside science” videos
The U.S. branch of IEEE, the worldÂ’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology, has made available these videos intended for IEEE members and users of local English and Spanish newscasts all over the states. The videos promote awareness of and appreciation for scientistsÂ’ and engineersÂ’ roles in everyday life by providing accurate and peer-reviewed science and engineering information covering many current developments in everyday devices and systems. The videos have b
Exploring the ideas of Darwin and their impact on culture.
In January 2008, the Wellcome Trust held interviews with people on the street to get their views about Darwin, his ideas and their impact on the world. A series of videos ‘vox pops’ were produced and these have been made available via these webpages.
