27 February 2017
British Library resources on digital scholarship for PhD students
Finding your way around the vast collections of the British Library can be daunting at first, but there are lots of resources and staff keen to help doctoral students get started in this post from Digital Curator Mia Ridge (@mia_out).
These resources were compiled for the digital scholarship sessions at the British Library's doctoral open days. We'd love to hear from you with questions or comments at [email protected].
Learning about our collections
Help for researchers - a great place to start with general collections queries
Discovering digitised content
Catalogues: http://explore.bl.uk for printed materials ('I want this' will list digitised items); http://searcharchives.bl.uk for archives and manuscripts
Digitised manuscripts, Illuminated manuscripts and Hebrew manuscripts
Flickr - particularly rich in images from 19th century books
Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) - international digitisation projects
British National Bibliography metadata
Learning about digital scholarship
BL Labs Awards and Competitions are a great source of inspiration
The British Library's Digital Scholarship blog (you're reading it right now!) and twitter account @Bl_DigiSchol
Events with online / in-person sessions include IHR Digital History Seminar and Digital Classicist
The Institute of Historical Research offers training courses or there's the Programming Historian
Finally, your university may be a member of a training consortium (CHASE, White Rose, etc) that offers specialist digital scholarship courses