Geeky stuff- Building an archive solution
- Preprints and repositories in the Soviet Union
- Light weight cataloguing with BibTex
- What do we actually mean by data retention?
- Using BibTex for artefact description
- Open source literature and citizen science
- Scientific communication in pre 1989 Eastern Europe
- What is a repository?
- Lodlam 2015
- Electronic resources and BibTeX
- Exporting references from Dspace in BibTeX format
Monthly Archives: August 2026
The road from Damascus
A Renault 4 on the desert road between Damascus and Baghdad in 1970 – wikimedia commons When I wrote about Agatha Christie travelling to Iraq, I mentioned how she took an express bus from Damascus to Baghdad. There was no … Continue reading
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Clue or Clew?
A couple of months ago I discovered Agatha Christie. Previous to that I had never actually read a novel by her, partly because I had been put off by the rather prissy, very English, format of a lot of British … Continue reading
The deceased wife’s sister
Up at the Athenaeum, one of the novels I catalogued last Friday was The deceased wife’s sister, an 1874 novel by William Clark Russell. When first published to novel was controversial and published anonymously. In Victorian times, marrying the sister … Continue reading
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