Harvard Library Bulletin

Scholarly journal for research on @HarvardLibrary collections. Est. 1947; online and open-access in 2020; published by @HoughtonLib at @HarvardUniversity.

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Happy #OAWeek2022! Check out @Harvard's OA Week events related to this year's theme, #OpenForClimateJustice: https://t.co/8YMLEMqbpn. @HLBJournal is proud to be one of @HarvardLibrary's OA initiatives. Read our 2021 interview: https://t.co/ekrhpA4ReI.

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Part of @English_Harvard's 2022 Bloomfield Conference in honor of Prof. James Simpson: a pop-up exhibition @HoughtonLib w/works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, & more. @HLBJournal has published the exhibition labels and an essay by curator @BaileySincox: https://t.co/SJ6XPkabx2

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📣 PSA: @HLBJournal is undergoing maintenance this weekend and will be down. You can search past articles on DASH: https://t.co/oHBMk4u1nj We will be up and running again soon. Thanks to our friends at Harvard Web Publishing for their hard work!

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Just published in @HLBJournal: Thanks to a @HarvardLibrary #AdvancingOpenKnowledge grant, author Vanessa Formato and colleagues at the Abraham Pollen Archives uncovered the lives and identities of @MassEyeAndEar's earliest #women #physicians.
https://t.co/XLp061FgA1

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🎉 Congratulations to Ben Porteous #Harvard22, on graduating and for being the first undergraduate author published in @HLBJournal online! Read his #translation of an 18th-century Chinese #manuscript held at @HarvardYenching: https://t.co/14bdVcVDin

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New #HarvardContagionProject article in @HLBJournal: Taylor M. Moore writes on Egyptian old wives' tales, a mysterious medicine bundle in the @HarvardMuseums, & the connections "between histories of medicine ... & histories of anthropology & collecting": https://t.co/ivrr1Fapqt

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New to @HLBJournal and #HarvardContagionProject: @Stanford #historian Paula Findlen on the 17th-c. Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, first to study plague under the #microscope—and then wrote a book about it. @HMSCountway holds an original edition. Read more: https://t.co/jzzZxUnbri

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"publishing it would interfere with working on it": Using the extensive archive @HoughtonLib, Jeff Noh of @mcgillu writes on the wild publication history of Harold Brodkey's infamous novel The Runaway Soul. https://t.co/0OJfBRPkZV

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Attention @HarvardLibrary staff! Come to this info session if you're interested in Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge Grants, which are designed to spark creativity and encourage collaboration. Learn more about all the #OAWeek events @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/zSHokM48uD

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Already a https://t.co/HYIXLwEjQZ user? Join @HMSCountway TODAY at 12 PM EST to learn more about its advanced features and functionality! The workshop is aimed at current users but is open and free to all. Register: https://t.co/zSHokM48uD
#OAWeek #openaccessweek2021

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TODAY at 11 AM EST: #openaccessweek2021 kicks off @Harvard with a keynote by Richard Sever: "The bioRxiv & medRxiv Preprint Servers: Communicating at the Speed of Science." Register: https://t.co/zSHokM48uD
#OAWeek #OpenScience #openknowledge #Harvard

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Happy #openaccessweek2021! @oscharvard and the rest of @HarvardLibrary are celebrating for the next month and we hope you'll join us. Find all the events and programming: https://t.co/zSHokM48uD #openaccessweek #OAWeek #Harvard #openknowledge

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Are you ready for #openaccessweek2021? Join @HarvardLibrary on Tue 10/26, 11 AM for keynote "The bioRxiv & medRxiv Preprint Servers: Communicating at the Speed of Science," by Richard Sever of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Register: https://t.co/SEqj7SMKEd

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In her #HarvardContagionProject commentary in @HLBJournal, Kathryn Olivarius writes about how Edward Barton harnessed the power of vital #data to address the astronomical yellow fever mortality rates in 1850 New Orleans. https://t.co/7mnPx5pUb9

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110 years ago, Dr. Wu Lien-teh argued that #masks were vital #PPE during a pneumonic plague epidemic with a nearly 100% fatality rate. Sarah Xia Yu comments in @HLBJournal: https://t.co/9zGCbtZ02y #HarvardContagionProject

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Welcome back, @HarvardLibrary! Find opening and safety info for all your favorite @Harvard repositories: https://t.co/bsgqPFtbQy

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In her commentary for the #HarvardContagionProject with @HLBJournal, He Bian writes that in 16th c. China, a new virus required a novel cure, so physician Li Shizhen immortalized one in his compendium of materia medica: https://t.co/5fBYj8QCnb

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In medieval Europe, if doctors couldn't cure you, maybe prayer would. Erik A. Heinrichs explains the popularity of prayer broadsides: "Spiritual Solutions for Plague," @HLBJournal : https://t.co/NnntN1SYdG #HarvardContagionProject

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British health reformer John Howard wanted to write about conditions in quarantine facilities, so he had himself quarantined—for 42 days. Read Spencer J. Weinreich's commentary on Howard's account in @HLBJournal: https://t.co/ml2vuvWWOw #HarvardContagionProject