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H-Net’s Contribution to Historical Bibliography

H-Net’s Contribution to Historical Bibliography. Jim Niessen H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine & Rutgers University ALA Annual in New Orleans, 26 June 2006. What do we mean by bibliography?. A collection of citations Covering a certain topic Organized for retrieval

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H-Net’s Contribution to Historical Bibliography

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  1. H-Net’s Contribution to Historical Bibliography Jim Niessen H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine & Rutgers University ALA Annual in New Orleans, 26 June 2006

  2. What do we mean by bibliography? • A collection of citations • Covering a certain topic • Organized for retrieval • Advantages of online bibliography: work can be distributed information is easily retrieved easily reorganized and updated

  3. H-Net’s contribution • H-Net Reviews: monographic information • TOCs, Tables of Contents: journal articles • Formal and informal bibliographies • For the future: some ideas

  4. H-Net as a network collaboratory • 172 lists or networks • Each is run by its own editors • Each is its own community of interest • 200-15,000 subscribers in each network • Each network has its own home page • Many networks review books • Many networks have unique activities

  5. H-Net as server and organization • Listserv distributes email to lists • Web server hosts mail logs, resources • JobGuide • Announcements • Reviews processing and archiving • Governance: Council, internal email lists, committees, elections

  6. Review editors of lists select books Then request them via central office Commission reviews when books arrive Edit the reviewer’s review Submit the review for central copyediting E-mail distribution via individual list Archived in public web directory Searchable, PURL H-Net Reviews http://www.h-net.org/reviews/

  7. Volunteers submit TOCs for journals they are responsible for May be selected to fit the interest of the group Volunteers may lose interest and stop TOCs may not be archived in one place H-Soz-u-Kult: Journals submit complete TOCs to the list All are archived in one place Database is searchable Journal tables of contents

  8. Formal and informal bibliographies • H-Netters ask each other: can you recommend books on…? • Formal compilations may be submitted • Short responses to the list sit in the logs • Or they are brought together as “threads” • There is no H-Net-wide bibliography project • There is no H-Soz-u-Kult or Clio-online bibliography project

  9. For the future: some ideas • Continued archiving, linking of reviews • More collaboration with publishers to collect TOCs • Collect the H-Net bibliographies that are already online • H-Net searching of “*bib*” directories • Use of wikis to update bibliographies

  10. What do you recommend? • Your ideas and suggestions today • Join H-HistBibl http://www.h-net.org/~histbibl/ • Come to the panel of the Association for the Bibliography of History (ABH) on online bibliography a the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, January 2007

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