A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R.E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, edited by Cynthia Johnston

Investing in Rare Books and Manuscripts

The lecture treats the rapidly escalating values of rare books and manuscripts both as financial and as scholarly investments. The text suggests new areas for collecting which may be pursued in today's market with an eye to an increasing intellectual and monetary return.

Introducing Books/ Iranian Art: Collecting Iranian Art Pieces for Victoria and Albert Museum, Mohammad Javad Ahmadinia

Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: edited books, book series and types of publishers in the Book Citation Index

This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters’ Book Citation Index, a novel multidisciplinary database launched in 2010 which offers bibliometric data of books. We analyze three possible factors which are considered to affect the citation impact of books: the presence of editors, the inclus...

Evaluation Strategy for the Re-development of the Displays and Visitor Facilities at the Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove

A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge The content must not be changed in any way or reproduced in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holder(s) When referring to this work, full bibliographic details must be given GENERAL OBJECTIVES 3.1 Key Objective 1: Maintain an informed picture of the profil...

Books and edited proceedings

References [1] Patrice Quinton and Yves Robert. Algorithmes et architectures systoliques. Etudes et Recherches en Informatique. Masson, 1989. English translation: Systolic algorithms and architectures, Prentice Hall (1991). [2] Yves Robert. The impact of vector and parallel architectures on the Gaussian elimination algorithm. Manchester University Press and John Wiley, 1991. [3] Luc Bougé, Clai...