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Submitted by Eileen Clancy on Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The publisher Gale is offering free access to the Artemis and News Vault cross-searchable databases of primary source material and newspapers until April 25. [http://www.galetrials.com/default.aspx?TrialID=77044;ContactID=15613] The databases cover the 15th-21st century UK and North America, with some other international material. In Artemis it is possible to download both the image file and the OCR text file of multiple pages and entire books.
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In this blog post, James Baker reviews the skills needed by historians to do good digital research and notes the neglect of "the ability to count, to do statistics, to use quantitative methods."
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