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    In Celebration of Women and Wanderlust: Exploring the Mediterranean

    March 7, 2023

    Dr. María Sebastián Sebastián is an architect and art historian. She is a professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, at the Department of Historical Sciences and Theory of the Arts. In 2022 she was awarded a Wiley Digital Archive Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to study the depictions of the Mediterranean area made by Margaret M. Hasluck and Emilia F. Noel. Learn more about her experience using the WDA platform to uncover the contributions of these women through their travels.

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    Surviving the Arctic Alone: The True Story of Iñupiat Heroine Ada Blackjack

    December 15, 2022

    As the sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition in the 1920s, Ada Blackjack survived the harshness of Wrangel Island alone. Her determination to return home to her son drove her to learn new skills and fend for herself during a time when it was rare for women to work outside the home.

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    Dr. Alex Hall on the BAAS archive: “A fabulous new resource”

    July 8, 2021

    “In my own research, even when I know what I’m after, the time and cost of searching and visiting widely dispersed records can be taxing,” writes Dr. Alex Hall. A science and environmental historian and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, Dr. Hall says that “thanks to Wiley and Jisc’s collaboration, there is a fabulous new resource – saving my time and bringing powerful new insights to the history of science.”

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    Finding the animals hidden in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives

    May 17, 2021

    Dr. Catherine Oliver, a geographer working at Cambridge University, is an RGS/WDA fellow doing research on animals in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives. She has been blogging about her discoveries and how they intersect with her work on vegan geographies (her upcoming book is titled Veganism, Animals, and Archives). Her posts on archival evidence of the use of animal labour in expeditions, friendships between geographers and animals, interspecies conflicts, and geographers mapping animal territories make good reads.

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    Search and Browse Seven Centuries of Manuscripts With Automated Text Recognition

    May 12, 2021

    We are excited to announce that Wiley Digital Archives continues to lead primary source discovery and analysis technology with Automated Text Recognition (ATR), an AI dedicated to manuscript search and exploration that offers full digital access to handwritten pages documenting seven centuries of the History of Science.

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    Finding Women in the RGS Archive

    December 9, 2020

    Dr. Sarah L. Evans, from the Royal Geographical Society, writes about Finding Women in the Archives.

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    Interview with Librarian Emily Lin: How We Rescued the Archives from Wildfire

    December 3, 2020

    When a wildfire threatened Sequoia National Park, UC Merced Librarian Emily Lin worked with national parks curator Ward Eldredge to relocate the archive containing 130 years of the park’s history.

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    Public Policy, Communicating Science, And Enhanced Access: The Importance of Digitized Archives

    November 23, 2020

    The tension between science and belief systems has surfaced many times before during public health crises. Archival material from these periods illuminate much of the push for science to legitimately influence policy and legislature.

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    Integrating Digital Primary Sources Into Undergraduate Education

    November 20, 2020

    The unexpected acceleration to virtual learning creates a new urgency to ensure that primary source materials can be accessed remotely for teaching, learning and research.

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    The “Othering” of Disease: Xenophobia During Past Pandemics

    September 3, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues that transcend medicine and health, illuminating a long history of racial fears and anxieties that have historically been a common framework around global viruses.

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    Emory University

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    Dr. Catherine Nichols

    Department of Anthropology and Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

    Loyola University Chicago

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    Mobeen Hussain

    co-Editor in Chief--Doing History in Public

    PhD Candidate, World History--University of Cambridge

  • “The search functions in Wiley Digital Archives are particularly good for the type of research I do. I can cross-reference my current inventories of Livingstone’s mentions of the word “women” very quickly, and the horizontality of the search process enables me to happen upon other works of interest that I might not have found otherwise. The malleability of this search function, in combination with the quality of the Wiley’s OCR, has facilitated fast, comprehensive data access—and underscores the value that these records can bring to the understanding of the socio-cultural makeup of exploration.“

    Dr. Kathryn Simpson

    Lecturer

    University of Glasgow

  • “Wiley Digital Archives are always available, so there are no time limitations. Just as important, it opens the access to Society Archives to independent scholars or researchers at schools that don’t have the funding for extensive travel.”

    Sarah M. Pickman

    Ph.D. Candidate—History of Science and Medicine Program

    Yale University

  • “The RAI’s archive is the unique repository of Arthur Bernard Deacon’s original reproductions, which have been included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register in 2013.”

    Jacopo Baron

    PhD Candidate Doctoral School of Social Anthropology and Ethnology

    EHESS of Paris

  • “Wiley Digital Archives presents extremely robust features and tools for users. The dense archival collections are highly navigable with rich metadata and advanced filtering functionality. The range of exploration and analysis tools present users with innovative ways to explore within—and across—archives and collections.”

    Maria Smith

    Center for Research Libraries

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