From the Wikimedia blog: Today, the National Archive of the Netherlands and Spaarnestad Photo announced a partnership to release more than 1,000 photos of politicians and political events in the Netherlands. This generous release will provide photos for many related Wikipedia articles that once had no image to accompany the article.
Entries Tagged as 'archive'
The Scribd Archive was a bait & switch
September 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion
You might recall the moderate sized ruckus this week when Scribd started their archive program without telling anyone. Basically Scribd decided that any file uploaded more than a few months ago was now in the “archive”, and they started charging access. The ruckus happened because one, they did not bother to tell anyone and two, [...]
Winston Churchill archive goes digital
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the NYTimes: CAMBRIDGE, England — You’re a high school or college student, or a journalist, psychologist or historian, and you have a paper to write on Winston Churchill’s “finest hour” speech on June 18, 1940, arguably his most stirring moment in World War II. But you want to go beyond the famous lyric of [...]
Scientific American archive now available online
May 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
From the announcement (via email): Nature Publishing Group introduces Scientific American’s online archive for institutional customers on nature.com at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The Scientific American online archive contains the complete collection of Scientific American from May 1948 to December 2005. Containing over 650 issues and more than 20,000 articles, the Scientific American online archive offers readers an [...]
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Rolling Stone to put entire archive online behind a paywall
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the Seattle PI: For the first time Rolling Stone is inviting its readers on the long, strange trip though the magazine’s 43-year archive, putting complete digital replicas online along with the latest edition. But you’ll have to pay to see it all.With a new site launching Monday, Rolling Stone will become one of the [...]
Internet Archive now has 2m free texts online
April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the announcement: The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public for free on archive.org since [...]
Popular Science Magazine Archive now Online – FREE
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Popular Science just announced that they have uploaded their archive. That’s 137 years worth of articles, editorials, and ads all available online for free. Check it out.
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