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Letter to Henry Nelles from Michael Harris regarding estate problems
No full textLetter to Henry Nelles from Michael Harris regarding estate problems (3 pages, handwritten with
writing going in 2 directions on the last page), May 30, 1821
The History of the False Raised Band
No full textThe use of material evidence found in the structures and materials of bookbindings has only recently begun to be recognised as a resource in the field of book history studies. This article exemplifies the possibilities inherent in a detailed examination of individual bookbindings and how their construction can inform our understanding of how the books were perceived by their original owners and where they fit into the general culture of book at different historical periodsIt is based on first-hand observations made by the author in many libraries in Europe and North America over 25 years and uses material not otherwise available. The paper on which this article is based was given at the 2004 Annual Book Trade History Conference in London. I have been invited to lecture on related book-binding research at many international forums including Rare Books Schools in London, Melbourne and Virginia; at the Annual Meeting of the Arbeitskreiseinbandforschung, (19-21 October 2006,) Bayerisch Staatsbibliothek, Munchen; in 'Research Projects on Historic Bookbindings', in Atti della Conferanza Internazionale: Scelte e Strategie per la Conservazione della Memoria, Dobbiaco 25-29 June 2002.
The body of research also relates to two other publications 'Bookbinding', in: The Cambridge History of the Book Volume V, 1695-1830, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and 'How Greek is Greek? Western European imitations of Greek-style bindings', published in the post-prints of the international symposium: The Book in Byzantium: Byzantine and post-Byzantine Bookbinding, Athens
Letter to Henry Nelles from Michael Harris of the Perth Military Settlement
No full textLetter to Henry Nelles from Michael Harris of the Perth Military Settlement (3 pages,
handwritten). He is married to Mary Fanning, sister of Henry Nelles but is having marital troubles
as he says he “may have to be on the lookout for another wife”. He thinks that his wife Mary may
have departed for the United States, Apr. 6, 1821
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Robin Myers and Michael Harris, eds. A Genius for Letters. Booksellers and Bookselling from the 16th to the 20th Century
No full textDuval Gilles. Robin Myers and Michael Harris, eds. A Genius for Letters. Booksellers and Bookselling from the 16th to the 20th Century. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°47, 1998. pp. 239-241
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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