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Call for Papers: Historical Research and Delpher [Voor de Nederlandse call, zie p. 3] TS. Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies/Journal for the Study of Periodical Media is a bilingual (Dutch/English) interdisciplinary journal focused on every aspect of periodicals and periodical media, such as newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc., from the Early Modern period to the present. TS is peer-reviewed and published open access. For a special issue concerning Delpher (Dutch database access to digitized historical text collections), we welcome contributions from Humanities scholars (including, but not limited to Dutch Studies, History, Art and Cultural History, Media Studies, Periodical Studies, Communication Studies & Journalism) that reflect on, are (partly) grounded in research carried out with, or otherwise engage Delpher’s digital collections. In recent years the digital humanities have been a subject of fervent methodological debates, and open access digital newspapers archives and digital text collections are particularly avidly discussed. In this special issue of TS on Delpher we intend to take such discussions further by looking at what kind of research is produced when using a specific digital archive and the newspapers, magazines and periodicals, and news items it contains. What kind of impact does a tool such as Delpher have on research questions and methodological strategies with regards to the study of periodical media? As far as the actual research goes, are there improvements, challenges, etc. in comparison to making use of analogue material? Are we asking new or different questions, obtaining new or different results, setting new or different aims? Or perhaps, the same as before?
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