Tag Archives: Open Access Tools

Winter Visit to British Library: Joining the Debate on Growing Knowledge

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Visiting London is always an experience of re-living a written text, very dream-like. This time it was about reaching out for the massive amount of books deposited in the British Library and described not in fiction but on my blog … Continue reading →

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Culturomics – Search Lots of Books With Google Ngram Viewer

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Another interesting humanities research tool has recently been made available with Google Labs. This tool allows for quantitive methods to be applied in order to complement the research in philosophy, art, language and topics alike. Google Ngram Viewer generates a … Continue reading →

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CERN: Open Access To Provide the Missing Ingredient For the Primordial Soup?

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Whenever she [Alice] looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite, empty, though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold. `Things flow about … Continue reading →

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Open Access To Humanities – Data, Data Everywhere But Not a Thought To Think

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

The title quote belongs to Theodore Roszak, the man behind the making of the counter culture of 1960s, and the one who “raged against the machine” most violently. However, could a “machine” herald a new era of providing thoughts instead … Continue reading →

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