... in the field of History. Design/methodology/approach – Book titles were extracted from the reference lists of articles that appeared in 604 history journals indexed in Scopus (2007-2011). The titles were cleaned and matched with WorldCat.org (for publisher information) as well as Goodreads (for reader...

...Vanda Broughton; Danny Budzak Purpose This paper aims to describe the development of an online project in East London about local history. Design/methodology/approach The approach to the paper has been to combine the experience of building and developing a live online community of practice...

.... Innovation Communication technologies Information research History Marine transport Steam engineering The tiny, almost inconsequential outcome of the promotions of 1824‐1825 (in terms of actual companies formed and compared with those of both the canal and railway manias) further explains why...

...Stephen A. Roberts; Abdisalam M. Issa‐Salwe; Anthony Olden Purpose The collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991 led to a world‐wide diaspora. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyse Somali web sites in an attempt to demonstrate how they reflect the troubled history...

... inherent in the world wide web at its public conception in 1994, and some of its different meanings now. It does so in the context of the collaborative reader‐writer Web2.0 (of today), and also through a brief exploration of our relationship to the grand narratives (and some histories) of the post‐war West...

...David Bawden; Toni Weller Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergent field of information history (IH) and to move towards a definition of IH. Some of the more traditional historical approaches to information science are challenged in their claims to be information history...

...” moved from the UK to the USA; how it narrowed down from an originally much wider concept and how, under the influence of French historians over the past three decades, it has widened out again, reaching a better synthesis of the study of books as material objects with the study of the history...