Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (4): Reading/Annotation in Sente and Power Note Taking ($$tagging$$) with Sente Assistant

This is the seventh post in the series Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac for the Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center. In my previous installments on Sente, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (2): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, […]

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Daniel Wessel: Using Content Outlines and Circus Ponies Notebooks for Writing Articles and Theses

This is the sixth post in the series Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac for the Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center. It is written by guest contributor Dr. Daniel Wessel. Daniel is a scientist at a research institute in Tuebingen, and holds a research doctorate in Psychology from the University of Tuebingen (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Germany. During […]

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Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs

This post will focus on the business of capturing, categorizing, and organizing your PDFs in a coherent library using Sente for Mac. If you followed my last post, PDF Chaos? Digital Workflow Basics, I discussed the chaos that can ensue without establishing a coherent filing system for PDF documents–and illustrated it with a chaotic demo […]

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Database Trial: Numerique Premium

  We are currently trialing a new database of French e-books, Numérique Premium, through April 12, 2014. The collection contains nearly 850 full-text titles in a variety of fields, including history, religion, philosophy, politics, literature/literary theory, film, and architecture. Publishers include:  Belles Lettres, Canadian Scholars Press, CNRS éditions, ENS éditions, Gallimard,Flammarion, Nouveau Monde, Picard, Presses universitaires de […]

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PHI Latin Texts–now online

For years, the best collection of searchable texts from Latin antiquity was the Packard Humanities Institute PHI CD-ROM #5.3, available in the Digital Humanities Center in 305 Butler.  Getting these texts available online was the Holy Grail of digital classics research. But now the Grail is at hand, as the Latin texts from PHI 3.5 […]

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Medieval Studies: Finding Secondary Sources Online

There are several resources online for identifying secondary literature: articles, books, dissertations, etc.  It is prudent to take advantage of all of these resources for a given topic, rather than relying on a single resource to provide all possible results.     International Medieval Bibliography Online Bibliography de Civilisation Médiévale https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio4134323 The International Medieval Bibliography […]

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Medieval Studies: Finding Primary Sources Online

The Libraries subscribe to a wide number of resources that provide access to Latin texts of the Middle Ages.  Here are some you might find useful (this is a selection, not a comprehensive list). You can bookmark the URLs below for use from any location:  Patrologia Latina: the full-text database https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/ANC0798 An electronic edition of […]

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HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository

Columbia is a member of the HathiTrust Digital Library, a vast repository of nearly 9 million volumes, 2.5 million of which are full-text searchable.  Though international in scope, The HathiTrust collection is especially useful for magazines & journals published before 1924, US government documents, and multi-volume works. Login for the most complete search options, which […]

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Germanistik

  Columbia has recently acquired the online version of Germanistik www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio8407640 This index lists books, essays, and articles published from 1960 to the present on German language and literature, including theater, media, and cultural history.  The entries for the first ten years have fairly basic search terms ("Shakespeare and English drama in German popular journals, […]

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Google Books adds EPUB Downloading Format

  Many books published before 1925 can now be downloaded from Google Books in the EPUB format, an excellent format for reading on iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, and other mobile devices. Here are some of our favorite EPUB readers: iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad: Stanza  (free from the app store) Android Phones:  Aldiko Blackberry: BePub […]

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