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Using digital archives: Finding primary sources online (Historical Research: Skills & Sources)

This video introduces the wide range of digital archives available at the Library that allow you to access historical documents and other primary sources online for your research. Useful search…

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Using digital newspaper archives (Historical Research: Skills & Sources)

This video provides an overview of the wide range of historical newspaper databases and other news sources available at the Library, including some hints and tips on basic and advanced search…

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Speaking Out - Safe Space

Speaking Out - Safe Space

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Exploring library resources for dissertations in gender studies

Does your dissertation question research gender and sexuality issues, such as gender inequalities, women’s writing, LGBT history and masculinity? Find out more about how the library can…

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Edmund Robertson - Tuesday 25 January

25 Jan - 26 Jan 2022ICMS hosted the "Mathematics: Inclusive or Exclusive? Putting colour, culture and context into the curriculum" workshopMacTutor - My Personal Journey Edmund Robertson…

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A Migrant’s Story: Designing Against Unconscious Bias in Digitised Historical Archives

Adam Crymble (UCL) presents 'A Migrant’s Story: Designing Against Unconscious Bias in Digitised Historical Archives.'Who do we digitize for? Who did we forget? The age of mass…

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Tower Block Archive - Aberdeen Pattypan Upload to Wikimedia Commons

A video demonstrating the process of uploading images to Wikimedia Commons in bulk using Pattypan. In this example, images from the Tower Block Archive are uploaded. Tower Block Archive: Home |…

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Internet Archive and Wikimedia: a virtuous collaboration

SpeakersMark Graham, Internet Archive AbstractThe Internet Archive has been a strategic partner of the Wikimedia movement since its beginning, with the Wayback Machine archiving cited sources and…

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Thinking through Transnational Collaboration: Interview with Iain Jackson

This is a conversation with Professor Iain Jackson, in which we discuss his current research on architecture in 19th and 20th century Ghana, and the importance of collaboration in his work. The…

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Introduction to Wikisource - Wikipedia's sister project and the free digital hyper library

Introduction to Wikisource - Wikipedia's sister project and the free digital hyper library How to get started uploading open-licenced books to be OCR-ed and proofread and linked to Wikipedia.…

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Tips for Searching Digital News Sources

This video offers tips to help search news databases. It will explore the key databases, Lexis Library and Nexis as examples. It will show simple and advanced searching across UK and International…

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Nicola Gnecco EVA Talk Preview

This talk has captions. You can remove these by pressing CC on the video toolbar. Name: Nicola Gnecco Talk Title: Causal discovery in heavy-tailed models Abstract: Causal questions are omnipresent…

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Piotr Dyszewski EVA Talk Preview

This talk has captions. You can remove these by pressing CC on the video toolbar. Name: Piotr Dyszewski Talk Title: $K$-regular self-similar fragmentation process Abstract: We study the asymptotics…

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Library Bitesize: Introduction to Web Archives

Presenter: Sara Day Thomson, Digital Archivist, Centre for Research Collections What happens to information on the web when webpages are updated or taken offline? This session presents the…

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Simone Padoan EVA Talk Preview

This talk has captions. You can remove these by pressing CC on the video toolbar. Name: Simone Padoan Talk Title: Joint inference on extreme expectiles for multivariate heavy-tailed distributions…

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Introduction to Special Collections (LibSmart II)

This video provides an introduction to the three main components of Special Collections: archives, manuscripts and rare books. The video explains what these terms mean, and is illustrated by…

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