File names should not be arbitrary. When managing your research data or your personal folders, there are many ways you can save time by using them efficiently. Here is a brief explainer by Guillaume Pasquier.
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Digital librarian in charge of ebooks, research data, social media... and board games.
Of E-books, Licences, DRM and Downloads
Proquest’s Ebook Central platform offers a large number of books for our community, but they’re not the easiest to use. Here’s a brief summary of how you can download e-books from this platform, and how to mitigate some of the most painful limitations of single-user (non-downloadable) titles.
Continue reading “Of E-books, Licences, DRM and Downloads”Using metadata (and Adobe Bridge) to manage a photograph collection
Researchers in the humanities often take a large number of pictures during their work: places, people, but also archival documents as a quick scanning replacement. This leads to very large picture collections that can be slightly overwhelming. Here are some tips from Guillaume Pasquier to help you sort through all these files using the embedded file metadata.
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Words and pictures : graphic novels at the Institute
Before building a small game collection, the Library also experimented with graphic novels. Here’s a short history and some details on what it’s all about.
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Where should you share your research data?
Multiple repositories are available to host your research data once your project is complete. Let’s look at some of the options with Guillaume Pasquier, our research data specialist. Continue reading “Where should you share your research data?”
