A Grassroots Initiative to Facilitate Historical Research: The Florida Journalism History Project

ABSTRACT As a result of advancements in technology, traditional methods of historical research are intersecting with new methods of information delivery. In the past researchers have had to navigate through resources that are often difficult to locate and access. Effective alternatives, however, are now being developed. Digitization and electronic delivery methods are now supplementing or replacing familiar ways of researching history that were utilized in the past. The authors propose that the development of small “grassroots” or localized projects such as the Florida Journalism History Project have a valuable role in the quickly evolving paradigm of scholarly communication. The article demonstrates how the project connects the old and the new by providing a resource that incorporates elements of a traditional bibliography with the delivery of digitized full-text documents and other Internet based resources.