[This is a guest post by Lee Sorensen, the Visual Studies and Dance librarian for Duke.  He edits the Image Portal for Duke, as well as the Dictionary of Art Historians.]

The Research Information Network, Britain’s educational think-tank, took a look at how humanities scholars “do things” these days.  They looked [...]

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The Russian film company, Mosfilm, has produced some of the great classics of Soviet cinema. The company’s history is rooted in the early days of the Soviet Union and the ground-breaking cinema of the 1920s. Recently Mosfilm decided to make dozens of its best-known movies freely available on YouTube. The agreement between Mosfilm and YouTube means that an initial batch of 50 films that still [...]

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