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Ancient books, manuscripts, engravings, drawing, and Open Access.
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2013-03-13
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Long before there was the Kindle, there was the 16th-century book wheel by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli, an ambitious reading “interface” that would allow the reader to browse and reference multiple books.
Complement with other vintage versions of modern social technology, then wash down with 27 of history’s strangest inventions.
(via historiai)
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Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a sumptuous fifteenth century Italian manuscript. On these pages we see the annunciation, the nativity, a depiction of the madonna and child, and the adoration of the magi. There is so much going on here, and lots of sparkly gold and glorious blues. No mistaking it is Italian!
Image source: Creative Commons licensed by Sailko, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: jothelibrarian
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2013-03-11
Aspettando IF BOOK THEN
La prossima settimana, il 19 marzo, si terrà a Milano la nuova edizione di If Book Then, la conferenza sul futuro dell’editoria organizzata da bookrepublic
Lo scorso giugno ho partecipato alla sessione estiva della manifestazione dedicata all’editoria accademica, scientifica e…
Source: ifbookthen.com
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2013-02-19
I was on a panel with Luis A. Ubiñas , head of the Ford Foundation, and heard him describe how running times at the Olympics plummeted after African countries started participating. I was thinking that if kids around the world could get connected to the internet and journals and each other, that even more creativity would be harnessed to solve the world’s problems.
Open access would be an important first step. I would love to see research that is publicly funded by taxes to be publicly available through neighborhood libraries and public school libraries.
— http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2013/02/18/why-science-journal-paywalls-have-to-go/
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2013-01-15
Open Access all’Università di Bologna
Se sei un dottorando,quando depositi la tua tesi, clicca su “Accesso libero”. La renderai disponibile a tutti.
Se sei un ricercatore o un professore, puoi:
- distribuire i tuoi materiali didattici su Campus ad accesso libero, anche con una licenza Creative Commons.
- depositare online tutti i tuoi manoscritti ed articoli su Acta, l’archivio istituzionale dell’Università di Bologna. Per usufruire del servizio, guarda qui.
- pubblicare su una delle nostre riviste peer reviewed ad accesso libero.
- creare una rivista o una collana di dipartimento. Contatta AlmaDL.
Se invece sei un semplice studente, passa ai tuoi professori e colleghi i consigli qui sopra, e informati. Quando arriverà il momento in cui anche tu potrai contribuire alla comunità scientifica, saprai come e perchè devi farlo in Open Access.
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2012-11-27
First illustrated edition of Vasari’s Lives of the Artists (Florence, Giunti, 1568).
(via biblioguerilla)
Source: biblioguerilla
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2012-11-26
Thomas Dibdin, Bibliomania, or, Book-madness : a bibliographical romance. Illustrated with cuts (1842) (via geisterseher)
Source: archive.org
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Animals and strange creatures in Theological miscellany,British Library (via liberbestiarum)
Source: liberbestiarum
