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Review of The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition by Primary Research Group, Papers in Library Science (digitalcommons@unl.edu) (2011)

This work reports the results of an online survey completed by respondants from 59 institutions,...

 

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The Art of Scanning, Online in UNL DigitalCommons (2011)

Yes, it is presumptuous to call scanning an “art,” when it is really more of...

 

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The Life and Spiritual Sufferings of That Faithful Servant of Christ Jane Hoskens, a Public Preacher among the People Called Quakers (1771) (with Jane Fenn Hoskens), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

In 1712, nineteen-year-old Jane Fenn left her home, family, and friends in London to obey...

 

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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) (with Thomas Hariot), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

This is an online electronic text edition of the first book published by an English...

 

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A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God (1661) (with Edward Burrough), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who...

 

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The Institutional Repository as a Tool for Librarians: Not Preaching to the Choir, Presented at American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, California, Saturday, January 8, 2011. Copyright 2011 Paul Royster. (2011)

What makes the Institutional Repository a good tool for librarians who are not IR managers?...

 

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Institutional Repositories, American Library Association Annual Convention . Co-sponsored by ACRL EBSS E-Resources in Communication Studies Committee and ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee (2009)

Summary of collection strategies at UNL:

Be inclusive, not exclusive

Be proactive, even aggressively so

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How to Fill Your Institutional Repository: Or, Practical Lessons I Learned by Doing, American Library Association (2008)

The evolution of content recruitment strategies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institutional Repository over its first...

 

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Research Showcase: UNL’s Institutional Repository, American Library Association (2008)

PowerPoint presentation on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's three-year effort to build its institutional repository. Includes...

 

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Digitally (Re)Publishing Franklin’s 1734 Edition of James Anderson’s Constitutions of the Free-Masons: Typographical Challenges and Unexpected Rewards, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2009)

A presentation about the origin, typography, and design of the 2006 digital edition of James...

 

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Disseminating (and Taking Control of) Your Scholarly Research, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2009)

How authors can take advantage of open-access developments to increase the dissemination of their scholarly...

 

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Value Added Services: Publishing Continuum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (with Joan Giesecke), Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2008)

During its 3 years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has...

 

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Dossier Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon data (with David Boratav), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2008)

Directeur de l'archive interactive de I'Universite du Nebraska-Lincoln (digitalcommons. unl.edu) et ancien prof de littérature,...

 

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UNCL Future Library Conference: UNL’s Institutional Repository, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2008)

What is an Institutional Repository ?
How long have these been around ?
What’s...

 

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The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia (1690) (with Aphra Behn), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2008)

The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia was probably written in 1688,...

 

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Disseminating (and Taking Control of) Your Scholarly Research, Animal Science Department News (2008)

How faculty authors can maximize the dissemination of their scholarly work by taking advantage of...

 

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A Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: With some Reflections on the Resistance made to King Charles I. And on the Anniversary of his Death: In which the Mysterious Doctrine of that Prince's Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled (1750). An Online Electronic Text Edition. (with Jonathan Mayhew A.M., D.D.), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2008)

After the Restoration of the English monarchy in the person of Charles II in 1660,...

 

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Copyright: The Crash Course, Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information (2007)

This is a simplified basic statement of the fundamental rules governing copyright. It is not...

 

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Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository, Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2007)

Institutional repositories (IRs) have been developed and promoted primarily as a means to re-publish scholarly...

 

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UNL Digital Commons -- An Introduction, Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information (2007)

A PDF'ed PowerPoint presentation on the rationale, organization, and operation of the UNL Digital Commons...

 

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A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736) (with John Mason), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

John Mason’s posthumously published account is the most complete contemporary history of the Pequot War...

 

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Newes from America; Or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England; Containing, A Trve Relation of Their War-like Proceedings These Two Yeares Last Past, with a Figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado (with John Underhill), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

John Underhill’s Newes from America was the most complete contemporary published account of the Pequot...

 

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A True Relation of the Late Battell fought in New England, between the English, and the Salvages: With the present state of things there. (1637) (with Philip Vincent [P. Vincentius]), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

This brief account of the major engagement of the Pequot War appeared about six months...

 

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The Journal of Major George Washington (1754) (with George Washington), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; His Majesty’s...

 

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The Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnet, of Massachusetts (1793) (with Jackson Johonnet), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

“Who served as a Soldier in the Western Army, in the Massachusetts Line, in the...

 

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The Negro Christianized. An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706) (with Cotton Mather), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

There were Negro slaves in New England before there were Puritans there, and by 1700...

 

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The Life and Spiritual Sufferings of That Faithful Servant of Christ Jane Hoskens, a Public Preacher among the People Called Quakers (1771) (with Jane Fenn Hoskens), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

In 1712, nineteen-year-old Jane Fenn left her home, family, and friends in London to obey...

 

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A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God (1661) (with Edward Burrough), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who...

 

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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) (with Thomas Hariot), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

This is an online electronic text edition of the first book published by an English...

 

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Electronic Texts in American Studies, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2007)

For the past year and a half I have been engaged in publishing open-access online...

 

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Milk for Babes. Drawn Out of the Breasts of Both Testaments. Chiefly, for the Spirituall Nourishment of Boston Babes in Either England: But May Be of Like Use for Any Children (1646) (with John Cotton B.D.), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

John Cotton’s Milk for Babes (also known as Spiritual Milk for Babes), a beginning catechism...

 

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New Yorke Considered and Improved A.D. 1695 (with John Miller and Victor Hugo Paltsits), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

The following work is essentially a line-for-line facsimile of Victor Hugo Paltsits’ edition of John...

 

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Gov. Thomas Dudley's Letter to the Countess of Lincoln. March 1631. (with Thomas Dudley and John Farmer , Editor (1834 edition)), Joshua Scottow Papers (2007)

The following copy of the Letter of Thomas Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln, written...

 

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MASSACHUSETTS: or The first Planters of New-England, The End and Manner of their coming thither, and Abode there: In several EPISTLES (1696) (with John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, John Allin, Thomas Shepard, John Cotton, and Joshua Scottow), Joshua Scottow Papers (2007)

In 1696 there appeared in Boston an anonymous 16mo volume of 56 pages containing four...

 

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An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Delivered in the African Church in the City of New-York, January 1, 1808 (with Peter Williams Jr.), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, prohibited Congress from banning the importation of...

 

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The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) (with Thomas R. Gray and Nat Turner), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

Nat Turner (1800–1831) was known to his local “fellow servants” in Southampton County as “The...

 

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The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race (1848) (with Henry Highland Garnet), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

Henry Highland Garnet’s 1848 address to the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, New York, published...

 

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An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York (1787) (with Jupiter Hammon), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

Hammon’s Address, published in New York and Philadelphia in 1787, is a simple but eloquent...

 

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Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (1833) (with Mathew Carey), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

Mathew Carey’s 1833 pamphlet pleads the case of the paupers, the unemployed, and the working...

 

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A Lecture on the Railroad to the Pacific [1850] (with Calvin Colton), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

DELIVERED, AUGUST 12, 1850, AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON.

Colton delivered this lecture in...

 

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LABOR: ITS HISTORY AND ITS PROSPECTS [1848] (with Robert Dale Owen), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2007)

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN’S MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, OF CINCINNATI, On Tuesday, February...

 

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Strauss’s Life of Jesus (with Theodore Parker), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

David Strauss’s Das Leben Jesu (1835) was one of the most influential and controversial theological...

 

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Primitive Christianity (with Theodore Parker), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

"Primitive Christianity was a very simple thing, apart from the individual errors connected with it;...

 

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John Marr and Other Sailors: An Online Electronic ‘Facsimile’ Text of the First Edition (1888) (with Herman Melville), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

John Marr and Other Sailors, Herman Melville’s penultimate published work, was printed by the De...

 

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The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford (with Charles Nordhoff), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

The Perfectionists of Oneida, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut, are best known for their practice...

 

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Guidelines for Preparing PDF Documents, Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information (2006)

Brief guidelines for making PDF files from MS Word or InDesign (or other) software systems....

 

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The Institutional Repository at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln: Its First Year of Operations, Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

The institutional repository (hereafter IR) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (hereafter UNL) began operations July...

 

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A Description of New England (1616): An Online Electronic Text Edition (with John Smith , Captain & Admiral), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

John Smith (1580-1631) made one voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine in 1614,...

 

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The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784) : An Online Electronic Text Edition (with John Filson), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

This is an open-access electronic text edition of Filson’s seminal work on the early history...

 

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An Address on Success in Business (1867) (with Horace Greeley), Electronic Texts in American Studies (2006)

Delivered before the Students of Packard's Bryant & Stratton New York Business College, November 11,...

 

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An Astronomical Description of the Late Comet or Blazing Star; As it appeared in New-England in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and in the beginning of the 12th Moneth, 1664. Together with a Brief Theological Application thereof. (1665) An Online Electronic Text Edition. (with Samuel Danforth), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Samuel Danforth’s 1665 book on his observations of the great comet of 1664 (C/1664 W1)...

 

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Samuel Danforth's Almanack Poems and Chronological Tables 1647-1649 (with Samuel Danforth), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Samuel Danforth’s poems from the Almanacks for 1647–1649 are some of the earliest examples of...

 

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A Brief Recognition of New-Englands Errand into the Wilderness: An Online Electronic Text Edition (with Samuel Danforth), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad....

 

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The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into; Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany. (1674) An Online Electronic Text Edition. (with Samuel Danforth), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

This is a well-known execution sermon from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, delivered on the occasion of the...

 

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A Relation of the Indian War, by Mr. Easton, of Rhode Island, 1675 (with John Easton), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

John Easton (1617-1705) was deputy governor of Rhode Island in the winter of 1675-1676 when...

 

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The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot, in the Name of John Taylor (1809) (with Mary Ann Talbot), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

"Comprehending an Account of her extraordinary Adventures in the Character of Foot-Boy, Drummer, Cabin-Boy, and...

 

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Digital Commons Workshop for Depositors, Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information (2006)

This is the PowerPoint presentation from a hands-on instructional and demonstration session to show UNL...

 

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A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (1676): An Online Electronic Text Edition (with Increase Mather), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

The following pages represent a new edition of Increase Mather’s influential contemporary account of King...

 

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Notes Geographical and Historical, relating to the Town of Brooklyn, in Kings County on Long-Island. (1824) An Online Electronic Text Edition. (with Gabriel Furman), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Furman’s work is one of the earliest compilations of historical documents (with commentary) about an...

 

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Two Biographical Sketches of Gabriel Furman (with The Faust Club of Brooklyn and William Gowans), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

The following two biographical sketches of Gabriel Furman (1800–1854) appeared in the reprint edition of...

 

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A two Years Journal in New-York: And part of its Territories in America (1701) (with Charles Wolley A. M. and Edward Gaylord Bourne), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

This description of the city and inhabitants of New York and its environs was written...

 

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The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734). An Online Electronic Edition. (with James Anderson A.M. and Benjamin Franklin), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

This is an online electronic edition of the the first Masonic book printed in America,...

 

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David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828) (with David Cusick), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

This very early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth, written...

 

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The Five Editions of Old Mens Tears, Joshua Scottow Papers (2006)

Following are reproduced the title pages of the five printed editions of Joshua Scottow’s Old...

 

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"Introduction" and "Notes" to 1845 Gowans edition of Daniel Denton's A Brief Description of New-York (1670) (with Gabriel Furman and Daniel Denton), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Furman’s introduction and notes to Daniel Denton’s A Brief Description of New York (1670) are...

 

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A Brief Description of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands (1670) (with Daniel Denton), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2006)

Denton’s work was the first English account intended to promote settlement of the region recently...

 

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The Christian Commonwealth: or,The Civil Policy Of The Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. An Online Electronic Text Edition. (with John Eliot), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2005)

John Eliot, the Puritan missionary to the New England Indians, developed this plan of political...

 

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De Bestiis Marinis, or, The Beasts of the Sea (1751) (with Georg Wilhelm Steller, Walter Miller (Translator), and Jennie Emerson Miller (Translator)), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2005)

Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the...

 

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Timoleon, Etc.: An online electronic text of the first edition (1891) (with Herman Melville), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2005)

Timoleon, Etc. was the last work by Herman Melville published during his life. It was...

 

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Timoleon, Etc.: An online electronic text of the first edition (1891) (with Herman Melville), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2005)

Timoleon, Etc. was the last work by Herman Melville published during his life. It was...

 

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[The Case of Ann Hibbins, Executed for Witchcraft at Boston in 1656] (with William F. Poole and Justin Winsor), Joshua Scottow Papers (2005)

This selection on the case of Ann Hibbins and her trial for witchcraft relates to...

 

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A NARRATIVE Of The Planting of the Massachusets COLONY Anno 1628. With the LORDS Signal Presence the First Thirty YEARS. Also a Caution from New-Englands APOSTLE, the GREAT COTTON, How to Escape the Calamity, which might Befall them or their POSTERITY. And Confirmed by the EVANGELIST NORTON With Prognosticks from the FAMOUS Dr. OWEN. Concerning the Fate of these Churches, and Animadversions upon the Anger of God, in sending of Evil Angels among us. Published by Old Planters, the Authors of the Old Mens Tears. (with Joshua Scottow), Joshua Scottow Papers (2005)

This edition of A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 is...

 

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Sketch of Joshua Scottow, with his Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts (1906) (with Henry Herbert Edes), Joshua Scottow Papers (2005)

A brief biographical sketch of Joshua Scottow, together with various legal petitions and proceedings relative...

 

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Old Mens TEARS For their own DECLENSIONS, Mixed with FEARS Of their and Posterities further falling off from New-England’s PRIMITIVE CONSTITUTION. (with Joshua Scottow), Joshua Scottow Papers (2005)

This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based...

 

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Memoir of Joshua Scottow (1816) (with "Sigma" (pseudonym)), Joshua Scottow Papers (2005)

The earliest known account of Scottow's life and writings. Length = 1500 words.

 

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A Template for Book and Article Manuscripts, Page Design Templates for MS Word and PDF Files (2005)

If you are submitting your document to a publisher, then this template/format is recommended.

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Print-Formatted PDFs (serif type): Template and Files, Page Design Templates for MS Word and PDF Files (2005)

If you expect your document to be printed out to be read on paper, then...

 

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Screen-Sized PDFs in Sans Serif Type: Template and Files, Page Design Templates for MS Word and PDF Files (2005)

This document style is intended for reading onscreen. It creates a two-page spread that fits...

 

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Screen-Sized PDFs in Serif Type: Template and Files, Page Design Templates for MS Word and PDF Files (2005)

This document style is intended for reading onscreen. It creates a two-page spread that fits...

 

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Formatting Your Document for Onscreen Reading: An MS Word Template for Producing Screen-Friendly PDF Documents , Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information (2005)

The traditional 8.5” x 11” portrait page is not very convenient or reader-friendly for publications...

 

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Thomas Pynchon: A Brief Chronology, Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (2005)

A chronology of known facts concerning the life and writings of American writer Thomas Pynchon,...

 

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The Future of Scholarly Communications, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2005)

I have seen the future arrive several different times and in a number of different...

 

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Electronic Publishing and the University Presses, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2004)

A pre-mortem on the death of scholarly publishing and an assessment of the current (as...

 

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Introducing Rita Mae Brown, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2004)

Remarks delivered at The Loft at The Mill, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 21, 2004, before a...

 

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Yad Vashem and the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2004)

Remarks delivered at the Henry and Gretl Wald Lecture, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 8, 2004, introducing...

 

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An Appreciation of Ted Kooser, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2003)

A year before he was named U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser was honored by an...

 

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A Celebration of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2003)

Remarks at reception honoring Gary Moulton for the completion of the 13-volume edition, the publication...

 

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Why Study the Holocaust?, Library Conference Presentations and Speeches (2003)

In February 2003 the University of Nebraska Press announced a new series of books—The Comprehensive...

 

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Melville’s Economy of Language, Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (1986)

This essay discusses two works by American writer Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre (1852),...

 

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Daniel Denton (c.1626–1703), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (1984)

Daniel Denton wrote and published A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF NEW-YORK: FORMERLY CALLED NEW-NETHERLANDS in London...

 

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Joshua Scottow (c.1618–1698), Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries (1984)

Joshua Scottow was a colonial American merchant and the author of two histories of early...