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: September 2026
Pennies!
Now and again, people ask me about old coins and such like they’ve found digging in their gardens. Mostly they’re low value coins, pennies and half pennies. Covered in dirt, and perhaps a little corroded, they can seem difficult to … Continue reading
The Marseilles – Ventimiglia railway ..
The Marseille Ventimiglia railway has quite a storied history. When it opened in the early 1870s it provided a link, in fact the only railway link between Italy and France, and remained so until the lines across the Alps via … Continue reading
Another Too Late postmark
I’ve been spending my pennies again, this time on another example of a Too Late postmark on a postcard from April 1883 sent to a hotel in San Remo in Italy The reverse shows an acknowledgement from Pitt and Scott, … Continue reading
