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We are a Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. We publish monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and offer the academic excellence of a traditional press, with the speed, convenience and accessibility of digital publishing. All our books are available to read for free online. We also publish bespoke Series for Universities and Research Centers.

"I am extremely pleased to announce that my book, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future has today been published by Cambridge University Press. The book offers a background to open access and its specifics for the humanities disciplines, as well as setting out the economics and politics of the phenomenon. It also has a very fine preface by Peter Suber! You can download the book for absolutely free (under a CC BY-SA license) at the official website (click the green “open access” button). You can also buy an extremely good value paperback copy, with all my royalties going to Arthritis Research UK, from the usual suspects."

«Voici un petit livre gratuit pour enfants sur le thème des stéréotypes de genres: vous y trouverez des filles qui pètent, des garçons sensibles, des filles drôles et des garçons qui prennent soin des plus petits. J'ai fait ce livre pour le plaisir et dans mes temps libres; c'est un petit truc très simple qui va droit au but (bref, vous en avez pour votre argent). Vous pouvez l'imprimer, le lire en classe ou à la maison, sur le iPad ou le TBI: c'est un cadeau. Servez-vous: c'est par ici pour le télécharger ou le lire en ligne. Vous opuvez aussi l'imprimer et le relier vous même avec du bon vieux "duct tape", comme l'a fait ce chouette papa!»

"The Internet Archive has a feature where you can submit a URL, which is then archived on the spot. This is a Chrome plug-in to provide access to that functionality... when you're on a page you want to save, simply right-click to archive it. Never lose a page again!"

«Le réseau des répondants TIC des cégeps a dévoilé le 5 mai dernier une base de données recensant des logiciels libres et/ou gratuits, fort utile pour tous les ordres d’enseignement.

Plusieurs intervenants du milieu de l’éducation sont intéressés à intégrer et à utiliser les technologies de l’information et des communications pour enseigner, corriger et apprendre. Ils se butent toutefois à différents questionnements. Dois-je me procurer une licence pour utiliser ce logiciel? Si j’utilise ce logiciel en classe et demande à mes élèves de l’utiliser également, dois-je acheter une licence d’établissement? Ai-je les droits nécessaires pour utiliser ce logiciel? »

"Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries. Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries. We hope that this software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Further information can be found in the book How to build a digital library, authored by three of the group's members.

The complete Greenstone interface, and all documentation, is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Kazakh. Greenstone also has interfaces in many other languages. We are looking for volunteers to add new language interfaces and help maintain existing ones."

Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.

This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.

Our Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.

Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

"Visualising Urban Geographies is a project that provides mapping tools for historians. It enables them to use digitized and geo-referenced maps in conjunction with historical information based on either addresses or districts. This spatial dimension enriches historical understanding and analysis, and can also be applied to other subject areas. The focus on Edinburgh is deliberate: to explore the potential of the mapping tools where there is available data and a wide range of suitable maps.

The project operates on several levels.

Inspection: Bringing together geo-referenced maps in a single place enables change over time to be identified by overlaying maps of different periods. Distance, area and altitude are built in features.
Mapbuilder: this enables allows users to use a geocoder to obtain latitude and longitude for their address-based data and plot it on a suitable historical map.
Configuring Mapbuilder: in conjunction with a Google account this allows users to publish their own maps to the web.
Thematic mapping: using boundaries and jurisdictions for the city, registration and other districts you can use data collected by area to develop charts and maps representing changes in demographic, social and political data."

"About our map images

In our 'Map images' resource you can access and view over 48,000 maps as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1961 and relate primarily to Scotland. We also have maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium.
Find by Place

The easiest way of finding material relating to any particular location is to find by place. Search using a map of Scotland, by place name, or by county and parish name. The boundaries and extents of all the map images are shown as clear coloured overlays that you can select and view.
Browse by category

The easiest way of finding general groups of maps is to browse by category. The maps vary in the amount of detail they show:

Least detailed maps – early maps of the whole of Scotland
More detailed – county/regional maps and coastal charts
Very detailed – town plans.

You can also browse the maps by the names of map-makers, surveyors and engravers.
Sets of county maps

We have several atlases online with sets of county maps:

Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654
Herman Moll's Maps of Scotland, 1745
John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832
Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912.

Military maps

Another category is of maps made for military purposes, especially those from the 18th century. These include the famous Roy Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755), and Roy Military Antiquities of Scotland (1793). From the 19th century onwards, maps were often published as a set or series, especially by Ordnance Survey.
Ordnance Survey maps

We have a comprehensive set of all the detailed Ordnance Survey maps covering Scotland available. This includes mapping at the following main scales:

One Inch to the Mile - useful for an overview of wide areas
Six Inch to the Mile - useful for rural detail, showing heights and contour lines, and covering all of Scotland
25 Inch to the Mile - the most detailed maps for all the inhabited urban and rural regions of Scotland
50 and 120 Inch to the Mile - very detailed urban plans covering 62 towns in Scotland

Ordnance Survey mapping published in the last 50 years is in copyright and cannot be scanned and made available online. You can view which detailed Ordnance Survey maps were published from 1841-1991 through our Ordnance Survey map records viewer.
More about early maps

We have further information about early maps in our introduction to Maps of Scotland 1560-1961. You can also read more about each sub-category: see the early maps list. Together these information pages form a brief, descriptive history of cartography in Scotland.
Seamless and geo-referenced maps

We are geo-referencing a growing proportion of more recent maps. Geo-referencing aligns an historic map image with its real world location information. This lets us present a map series as a seamless layer, and compare the historic maps to other dates of mapping, including modern satellite imagery and maps. Explore our geo-referenced maps.
Projects

We have several project websites with dedicated historical map resources:

Our Georeferencer application allows you to collaboratively georeference our early maps online
Our Historical Maps API allows you to embed a zoomable georeferenced historic map of Great Britain in your own website
Visualising Urban Geographies combines historic maps, guides and tools for historians
Our Bartholomew Archive website presents maps and other information relating to the Bartholomew map-makers and printers
Our Wilbourn Associates partnership is scanning and georeferencing historical maps of Great Britain

Images and printouts

You can order images, photocopies and printouts of all of these maps. When viewing any map as a zoomable image, select the 'Order this map' button. For further details, including contact information, use the enquires and copies link on all map image pages. The page also has a list of frequently asked questions about our online maps."

"This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.

Add some data

Video walkthrough
Historical background

Records of crime, poor relief, taxation, elections, local administration, plague deaths and archaeological finds can all be searched and mapped on this site.

Historical background and datasets
The Map

Building on a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map of London, this site allows you to relate an eighteenth-century representation of the metropolis to the first accurate OS map of London (1869-80), and to a modern Google Maps environment.

Mapping methodology"

«Lodel est un logiciel d’édition électronique simple d'utilisation et adaptable à des usages particuliers. Il appartient à la famille des gestionnaires de contenus (en anglais, Content management system, CMS) et s’est spécialisé dans l’édition de textes longs et complexes, s’inscrivant dans un environnement éditorial très structuré.

Lodel est particulièrement respectueux des conventions de l’édition scientifique, telles que les notes de bas de page, la structure du texte, les divers jeux de caractères correspondant à des langues non latines, les signes diacritiques, les petites capitales, les espaces insécables, etc.

Les documents à publier peuvent être préparés dans un logiciel de traitement de texte (Word, OpenOffice.org) en local ou édités directement en ligne. Lodel utilise les styles de paragraphe (par exemple : titre, résumé, auteur) pour fabriquer automatiquement les sommaires et les index. La liste des styles supportés est extensible et configurable. Lodel reconnaît les fichiers issus de MS Word (.doc) et OpenOffice.org 1 (.sxw) A terme, il sera capable d’interpréter également des fichiers issus de MS Word 2007 (.docx) et OpenOffice.org 2 et 3 (.odt)

Lodel a été conçu dans le contexte du développement du portail Revues.org, fédération de revues en Sciences humaines et sociales. Conformément au principe d’appropriation, le logiciel permet à un secrétaire de rédaction de réaliser lui-même la mise en ligne de sa revue, comme il le fait pour le papier avec Xpress ou Indesign, sans pour autant devoir se transformer en informaticien.

Lodel respecte les normes d'édition sur le Web (Dublin Core, RSS, OAI) et produit des documents XML.

C’est un logiciel libre sous licence GPL, créé par Ghislain Picard et Marin Dacos, qui est désormais développé par le Cléo.

Il est librement téléchargeable dans la rubrique téléchargement du site.»

"Semantically structured annotations

Annotating is the act of expressing knowledge about a “resource”. A variety of web annotation tools is appearing on the scene, so how does pundit differ from others?

The main idea behind Pundit is to enable users not only to comment, bookmark or tag web pages, but also to create semantically structured data while annotating, thus enriching the so called Web of Data.

The ability to express semantically typed relations among resources, relying on ontologies and specific vocabularies, not only enables users to express unambiguous and precise semantics, but also, more interestingly, fosters the reuse of such collaboratively created knowledge within other web applications. For example: provide a powerful semantic search, build innovative ad-hoc data visualizations or ultimately improve the way users explore the web.

This picture might give a better idea of what we mean by semantically structured annotations: the ability for users to create knowledge graphs where web content fragments, concepts and entities are meaningfully connected.

Technically, such a knowledge graph is represented using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the main building block of the so called Semantic Web."

"Every pin on this map represents a library containing digitized medieval manuscripts.
Clicking on a pin will show the institution's name, a link to the digitized manuscripts and the number of available objects.

The “standard” Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Map is the simplest of the maps we have designed: It’s an easy to navigate map and it is constantly updated. It is based on our crowd-sourced data, to which you can contribute too!

How is the Standard Map Made?

This map uses Google Maps JavaScript API v3 in combination with Google Fusion Tables and the Sexy Codicology Data. This solution helps us update the map quickly, once we get a new link to a library that contains digitized medieval manuscripts. It also helps us develop a better map everyday, thanks to the versatility of Google’s API.

The “Standard” Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Map’s Development

We have planned further development for this map. Here are the next possibilities we want to implement:

Search by Nation and City

We want to let the user select the pins from a single nation or from a single City. Example: you type “England”, and only the Libraries in England show up. Same if you type London."

"Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions. Without those skills, they could not write papers and funding proposals, give talks and field questions, or teach classes and mentor students. However, communicating with audiences outside their profession - people who may not share scientists' interests, technical background, cultural assumptions, and modes of expression - presents different challenges and requires additional skills. Communication about science in political or social settings differs from discourse within a scientific discipline. Not only are scientists just one of many stakeholders vying for access to the public agenda, but the political debates surrounding science and its applications may sometimes confront scientists with unfamiliar and uncomfortable discussions involving religious values, partisan interests, and even the trustworthiness of science.

The Science of Science Communication II is the summary of a Sackler Colloquium convened in September 2013 At this event, leading social, behavioral, and decision scientists, other scientists, and communication practitioners shared current research that can improve the communication of science to lay audiences. In the Sackler Colloquia tradition, the meeting also allowed social and natural scientists to identify new opportunities to collaborate and advance their own research, while improving public engagement with science. Speakers provided evidence-based guidance on how to listen to others so as to identify their information needs, ways of thinking about the world, and the cultural stereotypes regarding scientists. They delved deeply into the incentive systems that shape what scientists study and how they report their work, the subtle changes in framing that can influence how messages are interpreted, the complex channels that determine how messages flow, and the potential politicization of scientific evidence."

"Ancient History Encyclopedia is a non-profit educational website with a global vision: to provide the best ancient history information on the internet for free.

We combine different media, subjects and periods in interactive ways that will help readers understand both the "big picture" and the detail. Editorial review is a key component in our process to ensure highest quality.

Ancient History Encyclopedia is a non-profit educational website with the mission to provide the best ancient history information on the internet for free. We exist as a reference to ancient history educators, students, and enthusiasts. All contributions to this website are submitted and reviewed by expert volunteers who wish to share their knowledge.

Everything we publish is easy to read and understand, but also well-researched and referenced. All content material on Ancient History Encyclopedia is reviewed before publication by a group of volunteer peer-reviewers. Our information is balanced and neutral, as we want to present history from every angle.

We are committed to open education: All our original content is available under a Creative Commons license that enables teachers to freely distribute it in class, as it allows anyone to re-use our content in a non-commercial context. We're an open education resource listed in the OER Commons and we also share our data through the academic Pelagios network, side by side with institutions such as The British Museum and King’s College.

Our content is aligned with the school history curriculum, so that teachers can easily find material for class, and we plan on producing tailored classroom material, too. In fact, many schools and universities worldwide are already using our content in class or as reading material. We also believe that history education should be exciting: "Story" is a key component in the word "history", and we aim to convey in all our published content our belief that history is the greatest story ever written. We regularly publish interviews with historians and archaeologists, in which they share their passion for ancient history with our readers.

We combine different media, subjects of study and historical periods in ways never seen before that will help the understanding of both the "big picture" and the detail. Examples are our map of the ancient world, or our searchable interlinked timeline of ancient history -- both of which show historical events, connections and developments in an interactive and extremely accessible way. Digital media are far better-suited to representing the relationships between historical events than textbooks are, especially in education. "

"DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links.

These contents are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites. The contents of DIR have been prepared by scholars but are meant to be accessible to non-specialists as well. They have been peer- reviewed for quality and accuracy before publication on this site."

«Qui sommes nous ?

Qu'est-ce que c'est ?

estim-science.fr est un site internet collaboratif qui vous permet de mettre en ligne, consulter, commenter, partager des ressources conçues et produites par vous, acteurs de la culture scientifique, technique et industrielle, telles que des vidéos, des multimédias, des conférences, des expositions, ...


Où consulter ?

estim-science.fr est consultable en ligne sur tous les supports grand public : ordinateur, smartphone, tablette, TV connectée et Box Internet.


Pourquoi ?

L'objectif de estim-science.fr est d'accroitre la visibilité de vos productions de CSTI auprès des professionnels et du grand public. Ainsi, en créant une plateforme de partage, commune aux professionnels de la CSTI, estim-science.fr facilite la ré-exploitation de vos ressources par les professionnels du secteur et favorise leur présence sur des canaux de diffusion grand public type sites Internet, éducation, ...


Qu'y trouve-t-on ?

estim-science.fr vous permet d'avoir accès à un catalogue en ligne de vidéos, d'audios, d'images, de multimédias, d'outils pédagogiques, de conférences, de publications, d'objets muséologiques numérisés et de fiches d'exposition. Vous aurez également accès à l'agenda partagé des évènements organisés par les acteurs de la culture scientifique, technique et industrielle partout en France, qu'il s'agisse d'expositions, d'animations, d'ateliers, de spectacles, de rencontres-débats à destination du grand public ou des professionnels de la CSTI. Vous trouverez aussi un annuaire des acteurs de la CSTI enregistrées sur estim-science.fr, vous permettant d'identifier par régions, par types de structure, par spécialités, vos futurs partenaires et de prendre contact avec eux.


Comment contribuer ?

Vous pouvez déposer sur estim-science.fr les vidéos, les fiches d'exposition, les multimédias,... dont vous disposez des droits d'exploitation et que vous souhaitez diffuser, plus largement, qu'il s'agisse de ressources gratuites ou payantes, dès lors qu'elles présentent un intérêt scientifique et technique.


Quelle utilisation ?

Vous pouvez rechercher, visionner, commenter les ressources du catalogue en ligne (en fonction des droits associés à chacune), ainsi que les évènements de l'agenda ou les données de l'annuaire directement sur estim-science.fr. Vous pouvez aussi exporter et afficher facilement ces ressources filtrées selon vos besoins sur votre propre site. Pour cela, il vous suffira de choisir un format de présentation (diaporama, carte géographique, player vidéo, liste,...) avec les éléments que vous souhaitez voir apparaître et, par simple copier-coller, les intégrer sur votre site.


Quelles évolutions ?

La 1e version de estim-science.fr est en ligne, et le site évoluera jusqu'à fin 2015. Ces améliorations dépendront de vous : plus vous contribuerez, plus le site pourra s'enrichir de nouvelles fonctionnalités, répondant toujours mieux à vos usages.


A vous de contribuer !»

"Purpose of DOAB

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Metadata harvesting and content dissemination

OAI harvesting
DOAB supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). Service providers and libraries can use the protocol to harvest the metadata of the records from DOAB for inclusion in their collections and catalogues.

Technical information
Base URL: http://www.doabooks.org/oai
Metadata format: All books in DOAB are available in Dublin Core oai_dc and MARCXML formats.
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
Sets: All subjects areas in DOAB are defined as a set.
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=ListSets
Few examples using OAI verbs and parameters
ListIdentifiers verb:
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&from=2012-01-01&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
ListRecords verb
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&from=2012-01-01&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
GetRecord verb:
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:doab-books:14353
Harvesting records in MARCXML format:
http://www.doabooks.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&set=Mathematics_and_Statistics&metadataPrefix=marcxml

CSV
Libraries and aggregators can also download the list of records in DOAB in a comma separated format. Then they can import the file to Excel or some other software programme for further use.
http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=csv

Metadata license
All metadata feeds are available under a CC0 1.0 license. "

«HistoGraphe, c’est avant tout un concept : un réseau social d’utilisateurs - certes - mais surtout de données. Dédié à l’échange de documents anciens et à l’exploration du passé, HistoGraphe permet de partager des « documents », « personnes » et « thèmes » , et de les lier entre eux.

HistoGraphe, c’est aussi des valeurs indispensables au bon fonctionnement d’un tel réseau.

Vous êtes récompensé de votre contribution : lorsqu’un autre utilisateur télécharge un de vos documents, vous gagnez des crédits.
Vos documents sont protégés contre les utilisateurs qui souhaiteraient détourner ce système de récompense : un filigrane, ainsi que votre nom d’utilisateur, sont rajoutés sur chaque page des documents que vous partagez.

Enfin, HistoGraphe c’est une base de données bourrée de fonctions avancées pour la maintenir classée et triée, et permettre de satisfaire votre soif de découvertes. »

"HHMI’s series of short films for the classroom brings fascinating stories of science and scientists to students and teachers. The films aim to bring important scientific advances to life with concrete examples of how science works, how evidence is weighed and tested, and how conclusions are reached.

These compelling stories, in fields ranging from evolutionary biology and genetics to earth science, feature leading scientists and stunning locations around the world. Produced by HHMI’s BioInteractive team, each film runs for about 10 to 30 minutes, a length optimized for use in the classroom.

Importantly, each film is accompanied by a collection of supporting materials, including film guides, quizzes, hands-on activities, and lesson plans, that teachers use to increase the impact of the films in their instruction. Although the films are targeted primarily at the high school level, they have been popular with instructors from middle school through college.

The films and accompanying resources are available for download at BioInteractive.org. Short film DVDs can also be ordered for free through HHMI’s Order Materials page."