A categorized and annotated list of web related tools that can be used for usability testing.

Blog on copyright and publishing run by Kevin Smith

Blog keeps track of predatory OA publishers.

Citation practices for digital humanities and other alt-ac projects.

Norwestern's very pretty new LibGuide on scholarly communication. Includes sections on Copyright and Author's rights

Listing of DH projects seeking assistance

U of I English professor Ted Underwood's blog

Subject Guide hosted by University of Connecticut.

From the International Imaging Industry Association, this site offers information on preserving digital images.

A non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness on the importance of preserving digital materials. Advice, publications, and training are all offered here.

This comprehensive site details the steps that the Library of Congress is taking towards preserving its digital materials, as well as recommendations for digital preservation best practices.

A web-based image editor with advanced features, such as layers, blending, and magic wand selection. No registration required, buy by signing up users can share their creations, collaborate with other users, and otherwise participate in the Aviary community.

A popular online photo editor, users can opt to use either Pixler express or Pixler editor. As one might assume, Pixler express is the more basic of the two, and includes basic features such as cropping, rotating, and basic color filters. No registration required.

Winner of a MacWorld's editors choice for free image editing software, Sumo Paint provides an extensive array of basic and not so basic features. Web-based and easy to get started.

A browser extension for Google's Chrome, GooEdit makes editing images directly on a webpage possible.

A free image editing software available for download. Gimp is one of the more robust free image editors, and allows users to save images in multiple file formats.

A free, online version of Photoshop that includes features such as cropping, roatating, resizing, and color adjustments. Users will need to create a Photoshop account.

A free web-based tool that allows users to crop, resize, rotate, add special effects, and more. Photos can be uploaded from your computer, or edited directly from sites such as Flickr or Facebook.

Learn about digitization good practice. Share ideas for new digital content.

Images with embedded information about their ownership and content are easier to find and harder to misuse. Metadata is the key to better protecting copyrights, promoting licensing, improving workflow, and managing assets. Unfortunately, it is under-used and under-supported.

Their project, “Mobile Shakespeare Scripts” (or “MyShx”), offers actors and directors a mobile app for customizing scripts to include commentary, production history, or other digital enhancements.

Assuming the work you wish to use is protected, the work has not been licensed for your use online, and your use is not a fair use or otherwise exempt from liability for infringement, you need permission. Now what?

The digital humanities is increasingly becoming a "buzzword", and there is more and more talk about a broadly conceived, inclusive digital humanities. The field is expanding and at the same time being negotiated, and this article explores the idea of a broadly conceived landscape of digital humanities in some depth.

What is (or are) the “digital humanities,” aka “humanities computing”? It’s tempting to say that whoever asks the question has not gone looking very hard for an answer. “What is digital humanities?” essays like this one are already genre pieces.

A few weeks ago, ProfHacker got a request asking us if we could compare the two platforms, which gave me a great opportunity to try to figure out why I prefer EndNote.

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

A guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the Web.

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.

The TAPoR Portal is an online environment where users can: keep track of texts they want to study, these texts can be on the web or texts you upload, learn about different tools and try them; run tools on texts to analyze them in different ways. The Portal also has a news service and other features to support your research.