Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook

Digital Highlights: “Confectionery Made Easy”

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Many of us are looking at an uptick in home baking as the holidays approach and some of us are dusting off recipes that we don’t use all that often: shortbread, cinnamon rolls, croissants, Eccles cakes! Never fear, though, George Read is here with directions for a variety of confectionery items in a “plain and concise manner.”

Flip through the pages of The confectioner’s and pastry-cook’s guide below or follow this link to read it online.

Old Research Tools List

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This list of digital research tools has been superseded by the new Develop@MHL page! But since we know folks liked and used this page, we didn’t want it to vanish into thin air. So here it is!

Research Tools, Text Analysis, and Visualization

  • Diigo – Allows you to take notes, add virtual “sticky notes”, or highlight most Webpages.
  • Endnote (for purchase) – Citation tool.
  • github – A public code repository.
  • Google Scratchpad – Handy little free widget that lets you take notes and view them in a pop-out window, a browser window, or a Google Drive folder.
  • Omeka – Tool to create collections and present them online using free, open-source software.
  • Open Calais – Toolkit for semantic functionality within a blog, content management system, website, etc.
  • OpenLayers – Allows you to present geospatial information in a website.
  • Neatline – a set of Omeka plug-ins “for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation.”
  • Quick Note – Provides you with online scratchpaper; from Diigo.com. Also available for Firefox.
  • R (The R Project for Statistical Computing) – Statistical computing and graphics tools.
  • RapidMiner – Data mining and analysis tool.
  • Readability – Free app that lets you transform webpage text into a more readable format.
  • RefWorks (for purchase) – Online research management, writing, and citation tool.
  • TaPoR offers a variety of tools for text analysis and exploration.
    • Need help getting started on your text analysis? Check out the TaPoR recipes page.
  • TopBraid – Tools to help you model data and work with Semantic Web applications.
  • Visual Concept Explorer – Visually explore PubMed.
  • Visual Understanding Environment – Concept and content mapping.
  • Wandora – “General purpose information gathering, management, and publishing appplication.”
  • Zotero – Collection of tools to let you collect and organize your research.