Navigating Open Access | historywomble

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-12-06

Summary:

"In 2009, between studying for my Master’s and Ph.D., I was lucky enough to spend July at the National Maritime Museum as a research intern. This is a great programme if you are a postgraduate or just finishing your undergraduate studies, and want to try out some primary research or get to grips with the NMM’s fantastic collections. My project, supervised by Richard Dunn, looked at early modern navigational instruments, of which the Museum has quite a few. My aim was not to understand them in a scientific sense, but to consider them as cultural artefacts: what did they mean for the people who made and used them? This involved looking both at the instruments themselves and at manuscripts and books from the period, many of them held in the NMM’s Caird Library – although this was in the old Caird, before the Sammy Ofer wing was built (the new Caird is great, but I admit a soft spot for the old library, with its glass-fronted bookshelves. It was where I encountered manuscripts for the first time, too). I wrote a short report that was published on the NMM’s collections blog about the time I started my Ph.D. With encouragement and advice from Richard and others, I then turned the internship’s findings into ‘Navigating culture: navigational instruments as cultural artefacts, c. 1550-1650′, published in the Journal for Maritime Research  in May last year. As the Journal‘s 18-month embargo on depositing the ‘post-print’ text of the article has now ended, I have deposited a copy in Open Research Exeter, the university’s repository. ‘Post-print’ is the text of the article after peer review and editing, and can usually only be deposited after an embargo; many journals also allow you to deposit a ‘pre-print’, the text before review, sometimes without an embargo. This is the first time I have made an article Open Access, and since it is based on research at the NMM, and was published while I was at Cambridge, I wasn’t entirely sure where it should be deposited. However, I’ve received a lot of help from Exeter’s Open Access and Data Curation team, and the Subject Librarian for history, Aeronwen Cole.  You can find the post-print here; it does not include the same pagination, or the illustrations, which were included in the article with the NMM’s permission – in the post-print I have provided links to the same illustrations on the NMM’s website, where they are available ..."

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Date tagged:

12/06/2013, 12:02

Date published:

12/06/2013, 07:02