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The Smithsonian is up and running on Flickr Commons ... the photos are all labeled "no known copyright restrictions" and the photos are high-res. I was particularly intrigued by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, with photos of famous scientists and inventors.
http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian
Discovered today on: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/smithsonian-copyrigh.html
Here's a number of new resources, now available via the gateway:
Statesman's Yearbook Online was conceived of by Robert Carlyle and brought into being with the help of William Gladstone. Their vision for the book was an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs. It quickly gained recognition as an indispensable reference tool and has been published continuously since 1864, through two world wars, without missing an edition. It was ranked by Library Journal as one of the top 20 best reference resources of the millennium. Today, international affairs concern almost every one of us and the scope of the book has become correspondingly broader, with expanded coverage of history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country, all thoroughly researched and verified by a dedicated editorial team. It also provides extensive further reading lists and web links for further research.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world's most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists
TRIAL: HarpWeek is a web site that provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization," for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. HarpWeek's electronic database makes it possible for you to discover the lively news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era. Using HarpWeek’s powerful features, you can browse through 56 years of Harper’s Weekly page by page, locate specific articles based on search terms or phrases you specify, or use sophisticated indexing and synopsis tools to comb through thousands of Harper’s Weekly articles. Trial expires JULY 3, 2008.
TRIAL: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. The latest volume, Theatres for Shakespeare (Volume 60), has been added to the collection as part of the November update to Cambridge Collections Online. TRIAL EXPIRES June 26, 2008.
PLATFORM CHANGE: As of July 1, 2008 both America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts will cease to be available on the ABC-CLIO interface but will now be offered on the EBSCOHost platform. Redirect links will be put in place.
The URL has been constructed so that when you click on either product from the db A-Z listing you will be searching both simultaneously. For a preview: America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
TRIAL: Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. Critical Thinking Guides for every topic covered helps the student judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances the student's ability to read and think critically. TRIAL EXPIRES June 19, 2008
UPGRADE: People's Daily. It is now available online with daily updates rather than monthly.
Description (from website): With publication started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. It is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China For the last over 60 years, the People's Daily has published daily issues that provide the single location where the central government and the Communist Party of China announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis.
NEW: GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
Note: This resource is being offered free to existing EBSCO customers.
Attached is the CRKN announcement regarding the newly licensed digital content for the humanities and social sciences.
CRKN pdf
Google Scholar shows links to UVic fulltext
When searching Google Scholar, you will now see "Get this @ UVic" next to the title of the item, when that item is available fulltext online through UVic Libraries. If "Get this @ UVic" appears in smaller letters at the end of the citation, then the item may be available.
When connecting from off-campus, be sure to go to Google Scholar via the link on the Gateway, and set your preferences (to UVic Libraries) on the Scholar Preferences page under Library Links.
These links that appear in Google Scholar and other databases, such as PubMed, are made possible through new technology from ExLibris (SFX) which the library has recently purchased.
Please remember that Google Scholar is not meant to replace the Library's selected electronic resources for scholarly research. It is merely intended as another means for making users aware of our library holdings.
Encyclopedia of Christianity / editors, Erwin Fahlbusch ... [et al.] ; translator and English-language editor, Geoffrey W. Bromiley ; statistical editor, David B. Barrett ; foreword, Jaroslav Pelikan. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans ; Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 1999-2008
Location: Reference Call Number: BR95 E8913 1999
Cambridge ancient history. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1982-2005.
Location: Reference Call Number: D57 C25 1982
Encyclopedia of elite forces in the Second World War / Michael E. Haskew. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England : Pen & Sword Military, 2007. Haskew, Michael E.
Location: Reference Call Number: D743 H373 2007
European Union handbook / edited by Jackie Gower ; adviser, Ian Thomson. 2nd ed. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2002.
Location: Reference Call Number: D1060 E8785 2002
Encyclopedia of contemporary Russian culture / edited by Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: DK510.32 E53 2007
Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture / Luca Prono. Westport, CT ; London : Greenwood Press, 2008. Prono, Luca.
Location: Reference Call Number: HQ75.13 P76 2008
Encyclopedia of furnishing textiles, floorcoverings and home furnishing practices, 1200-1950 / Clive Edwards. Aldershot : Lund Humphries, 2007. Edwards, Clive, 1947-
Location: Reference Call Number: NK1710 E39 2007
We've had the good fortune to hire an Art History Grad student for a short time, and she's updated the Medieval Studies Research Guide (working with me and Lynne Woodruff, Fine Arts librarian) - merging the Medieval Art History Guide and the Medieval History Guide with the Medieval Studies stuff was here idea, and I think it's fabulous. One stop shopping.... The guide also highlights our newest acquisitions - please check it out and let us know what you think! We're trying to represent the multidisciplinary nature of Medieval Studies.
New research guide for History - Britain and Ireland
Check it out!
Middle East Series Online 1: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970
With over 200,000 pages of primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict, this product is an essential research tool for Middle East scholars. The fully searchable database has been sourced from the British Foreign Office, Prime Minister's Office and the War Office amongst others. These critically important government documents from the British government files, now housed at the British National Archives, are now available online in this fully searchable, image-based product.
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Economist Historical Archive Online now available
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Updated annually
Middle East Series Online 2: Iraq 1914-1974 -- New Digital Archive
Middle East Series Online 2: Iraq 1914-1974 offers a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Here major policy statements and other working documents are set out in context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Photographs and colour maps, as well as contemporary film, help bring this vital strand of modern history to life.
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Making of the Modern World Digital Archive - now available
< a href="http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uvictoria?db=MOME">Making of the Modern World Digital Archive follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth — the driving force behind many of the major events during the period (1450-1850). It can be used to support research in slavery, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender and more. This exclusive resource combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Supplementary materials are included from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and the libraries of Yale University.
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
New resource! Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 75 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. As such, the FBIS Daily Reports constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century.
Covers 1974 - 1996.
Simultaneous users: Unlimited
Available via the Libraries gateway: gateway.uvic.ca
Europa Sacra
The lists of bishops produced in Eubel's Hierarchia catholica medii aevi... ab anno 1198 and Gams' Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae still represent the most comprehensive tool for studying the prelates of the Church from the Early Church to the Reformation. National Fasti-projects are supplementing and enhancing these two works with greater detail and information on office-holders in individual bishoprics. Other prosopographical work has taken place on members of individual religious orders, on members of universities and commentators on set-texts at the schools.
Oxford dictionary of Popes / J. N. D. Kelly ; with new material by Michael Walsh. Updated [ed.]. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. Kelly, J. N. D. (John Norman Davidson)
Location: Reference Call Number: BX955.2 K45 2006
International encyclopedia of military history / James C. Bradford, editor ; preface by Jeremy Black. New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: D25 A2 I58 2006
Encyclopedia of the age of political revolutions and new ideologies, 1760-1815 / edited by Gregory Fremont-Barnes. Westport, CT ; London : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: D295 E53 2007
Dictionary of Victorian London : an A-Z of the great metropolis / [compiled by] Lee Jackson. London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA683 D53 2006
London gazetteer / Russ Willey. Edinburgh : Chambers, 2007. Willey, Russ.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA685 A1W55 2007
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani / [Redazione, direttore: Alberto M. Ghisalberti]. Roma : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960-
Location: Reference Call Number: DG463 D5
Australian dictionary of biography / [general editor: Douglas Pike]. [Melbourne] : Melbourne University Press, 1966-
Location: Reference Call Number: DU82 A9
Complete encyclopedia of weapons of World War II / general editor, Chris Bishop. Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada : Prospero Books, c1998.
Location: Reference Call Number: UF500 C645 1998
Now available: Chicago Manual of Style Online
Description:
The Chicago Manual of Style Online incorporates the popular Chicago Style Q&A, a resource that thousands have found as entertaining as it is informative. The Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of The Chicago Manual of Style. Your queries will return results—clearly distinguishable—from both the Manual and the Chicago Style Q&A.
Simulataneous Users: 25
Online access to: Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Descriptions:
Encyclopaedia of Isalm:
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, on tribes and dynasties, on crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries.
Encyclopaedia of Qur'an:
Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, and with nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, Brill’s EQ it is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies.
Platform: Brill Online
Simultaneous Users: 3
New online databases from Brepols
We now have access to Brepols Publishing's suite of online databases:
A-Z Databases of Latin Dictionaries
Bibiographie de civilization medievale online
Europa Sacra
In Principo
Lexicon des Mittelalters Online
Library of Latin Texts
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Ut Per Litteras Apostolicas… Papal Letters
Vetus Latina Database
International Directory of Medievalists
International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages
International Medieval Bibliography
All can be accessed via the BREPOLiS Online Landing page -- direct links to each database cannot be configured at this time. The vendor reports that the best method to access the databases is from the landing page where you must select the database(s) you wish to search. Some are cross-searchable.
Note: We have access for 3 simultaneous users
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The Patrologia Latina Database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.
Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
Unlimited simultaneous users
Platform: Chadwyck Healey
History of Science,Technology, and Medicine (1975-) added Jan 18, 2008
International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine.
Includes international material selected from periodicals since 1975. integrates four bibliographies to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine. It reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials.
19th Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive
Consisting of more than 600 titles selected by leading academics in 23 subject areas, 19th Century U.K. Periodicals is an invaluable resource for the study of English life in the 19th century – from art to business, and from children to politics. Most of the materials in this extensive online collection have never been reissued, in any format, since their original publication. The collection consists of five series comprising 1.2 million pages each.
17th and 19th Century Burney Collection Newspapers:
Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.
The original Burney volumes are now in a fragile condition and have been restricted from ordinary reading room use. Until now, the only access to this unprecedented collection has been through microfilm. This digital collection, made possible by a partnership between Gale and the British Library, puts these early newspapers into the hands of scholars and researchers and is an invaluable research tool for all disciplines.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers totals nearly one million pages and includes:
British Journal
Daily Courant
Daily Gazetteer
Daily Post
Evening Post
General Advertiser
Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle
London Chronicle
London Evening Post
London Gazette
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
St. James' Chronicle or, British Evening Post
Whitehall Evening Post, or London Intelligencer
And hundreds of others
Historical British Library Newspapers
19th Century British Library Newspapers:
Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers provides researchers with the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain available. This full-text, fully searchable digital archive includes 50 papers originating in England, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century. The collection is made up of daily and weekly publications and reflects Britain's growing role as a superpower in the 19th century world.
Multidisciplinary in scope, 19th Century British Library Newspapers includes:
Birmingham Daily Post
The Chartist
Freeman's Journal
Glasgow Herald
Goleuad
Illustrated Police News
Liverpool Mercury
Pall Mall Gazette
And many others
These electronic versions of Biography Index and Current Biography replace the print versions recently removed from the Reference Collection... (tb.)
Biography Index Past and Present:
For over 60 years, researchers have depended on Biography Index to find reliable information about people. Biography Index: Past and Present is a new version of the database, containing retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to when it was first published in 1946, combined with coverage right up to the present. This database offers information about people from all all time periods throughout history and right up to the present in a single, easy to use database. Biography Index: Past and Present cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. In addition to biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.
Current Biography Illustrated:
Reflects the entire contents of the printed monthly Current Biography—a trusted resource in library collections since 1940. This is where you will find reliable information about the people making tomorrow’s headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. With more than 15,000 full text biographies, more than 9,400 obituaries and more than 19,500 lively images, this database is sure to please any researcher. Profiles give users the information they want on celebrities, politicians, business people, writers, actors, sports figures, artists, scientists, and many others.
Also added today:
Essay and General Literature Index:
Unlocking the wealth of literature, this unique reference database offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections—a wealth of information that might be otherwise hidden away in your library. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Short Story Index:
A convenient digital guide to thousands of short stories! Locate more than 84,000 stories—plus the full text of more than 1,600 stories—with the pinpoint accuracy of electronic searching! For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Selected full text available from 1994-
Centre for Research Libraries announced that they have upgraded their catalogue, to enable easier and faster searching and finding -
From CRL:
Now online is a newly designed catalog of CRL collections. The catalog is powered by Innovative’s WebOPAC pro software. New features include:
· English and French dual-language interfaces
· Scoped searches within individual collections, such as dissertation, newspaper, serial and electronic resources
· The e-resources scope covers 4,000-plus full text online titles which are available through the catalog to CRL member institutions.
· Improved relevancy ranking logic in search results display
In addition to standard search capabilities, unique browsing functions have been built to enhance discovery of CRL resources:
· Browsing by country and awarding institution in the dissertation scope
· Browsing by country and U.S. State in the newspaper scope
At the bottom of the search screens, there is an opportunity for you to provide feedback. Please do!
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries is the largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it brings the personal experiences of nearly 500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. This edition of the collection includes approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from 1500 to 1900, including several thousand pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from 290 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. The collection has been developed alongside North American Women's Letters and Diaries, which uses the same software and indexing to provide access to more than 150,000 pages of American material from Colonial times to 1950.
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts includes not only the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, but also those of lesser-known authors of the period. Developed in consultation with an editorial board of the most eminent Reformation-period scholars in both North America and Europe, its comprehensive bibliography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant writings has been revised and refined under expert guidance.
Many of the books on it can only be found in the rare book rooms of the world's oldest libraries, such as the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation: Emerging from the crises of schism, war, and plague, the Catholic Church entered the sixteenth century with an intensified awareness of the need for renewal. At all levels of the Catholic hierarchy, the call for reform in capite et in membris was being issued. And like their Protestant counterparts, Catholic authors took advantage of print technology to create a vast treasury of published documents. The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation makes the documentary riches of this era more accessible than ever, offering powerful functionalities that maximize the flexibility with which researchers can explore this historically important source material.
Alexander Street Press has worked with scholarly editors to develop a bibliography that includes hundreds of seminal but often hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors’ manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, saints’
lives, and devotional literature. Offering extensive selections from authors as diverse as Robert Bellarmine, Antoine Arnauld, Johannes Cochlaeus, Michael Bajus, Thomas Stapleton, Cesare Baronio, Luis de Granada, and dozens more, the database represents the full range of ideas and opinions that sparked and sustained Catholic reform in the heady years before, during, and after the landmark decrees of the Council of Trent. As a companion collection to Alexander Street’s Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts, The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation completes the picture of an era when religious debates irrevocably altered the course of Western history.
New Trial -- Airiti Databases
Three databases available for trial:
Trial Dates: November 23 - December 23, 2007
Available on the NetLibrary platform; when any authenticated user logs into NetLibary account, the access to the following databases:
National Palace Museum of Taiwan (NPM) Online -- image database,
Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) and
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS).
You will see them available from the right hand navigation frame.
New Trial: Japan Knowledge Online
Trial available until December 27th...
TRIAL ACCESS PASSWORD CONTROLLED
In November:
Username: jk_jpt Password: norway
In December:
Username: jk_jpt Password: denmark
JapanKnowledge is a large online collection of language dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other Japanese reference works that can be searched simultaneously. The database provides access to 30 volumes of the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Encyclopedia Nipponica) in Japanese and the Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan in English; full-text coverage of the Tōyō Bunko and Shūkan Ekonomisuto (Weekly Economist); and to other resources including scientific and biographical dictionaries, the JK Who's Who, and a new interactive map of Edo and Tokyo. It also includes chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; books in print database; sound library; music library.
From Nancy Stuart, ILL Librarian:
Get Article is a new service to access journal articles online. If you have a citation, just fill in the article title, journal title, date, volume/issue and pages (if known) and click Go. If you are presented with a result list, find the correct title and discover if it is available online. UVic Libraries has recently implemented new software (SFX) to discover all our online journal titles. There are three ways to get to the Get Article page; from the Item Not @ UVic? page and choosing Request a journal article or the Is the journal title at UVic? page off the Gateway homepage or from the Interlibrary Loan Services page under Place an Interlibrary Loan Request.
Native newspapers on microfilm
Just a note that we now have the Contemporary Newspapers of the North American Indian on microfilm. Take a look in the catalogue for the record. All titles have been added to the bib record to make it more accessible. This should be a really useful resource for anyone studying in this area.
The full title list:
ABC, Americans before Columbus [microform]. Vol. 3, no. 1-2 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1-2 (1972).
Akwesasne news [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 4-10 (1969); vol. 2, no. 1-4, 6-7 (1970); vol. 3, no. 1-9 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1-6 (1972); vol. 5, no. 1-5 (1973).
Alligator times [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 2-5, 6, 9-10 (1972-1973).
The Amerindian [microform]. Vol. 1-21 (1952-1973).
ANICA news highlights [microform]. Vol. 3, no. 11 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1-2, 6-7 (1972); vol. 5, no. 9-12 (1973); vol. 6, no. 1 (1974).
Announcements (Native American Rights Fund) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-5 (1972).
California Indian legal services newsletter [microform]. Vol. 4, no. 1-3 (1971); vol. 5, no. 1-4 (1972).
The Cherokee one feather [microform]. Vol. 4, no. 1-16, 18-48 (1971); vol. 5, no. 1-48 (1972); vo. 6, no. 2-21, 24-47 (1973).
Dine’ Baa-hani’ [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-2, 4 (1969), 5-12 (1970); vol. 2, no. 1-4 (1970)
Drums (Keshena, Wis.) [microform]. Mar. 1971; Aug. 5, 1971; Nov. 1971; Dec. 12, 1971; Feb. 17, 1972; Mar. 25, 1972; Apr. 4, 1972; June 14, 1972; vol. 1, no. 1-8 (1972).
Focus: Indian education [microform]. Vol. 2, no. 3-8 (1971); vol. 3, no. 1-10 (1972).
The Hunter [microform]. Vol. 1, no.6-10, 12-15 (1971); vol. 2, no. 1-7 (1972).
Indian affairs : newsletter of the Association on American Indian Affairs, inc. [microform]. No. 1-8 (new ser.) (1949-1954); no. 10-15 (new ser.) (1955-1956); no. 17-21 (1956-1957); no. 22-24 (1957); no. 25-46 (1958-1962); no. 48-85 (1962-1973).
Indian truth [microform]. Vol. 1-48 (1924-1971); no. 207-211 (1972-1973).
Indian voice (Santa Clara Calif.) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-8, 10 (1971-1972); vol. 2, no. 1-5 (1972).
Indian voice (Federal Way, Wash.) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 7-8 (1971); vol. 2, no. 1-6, 8-10 (1972).
Jicarilla chieftain [microform]. Vol. 10, no. 24, 26 (1970); vol. 11, no. 1-26 (1971); vol. 12, no. 1-26 (1972); vol. 13, no. 1-23 (1973).
Legislative review (Indian Legal Information Development Service) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-12 (1971-1972).
Maine Indian newsletter [microform]. Vol. 4, no. 2-5 (1971).
Many smokes (Reno, Nev. : 1966) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-4 (1966); vol. 2, no. 1-4 (1967); vol. 3, no. 1-3 (1968); vol. 5, no. 3-4 (1970); vol. 6, no. 1-4 (1972-1973); vol. 7, no. 1-3 (1973).
Bulletin (National Congress of American Indians) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-5 (1947); vol. 2, no. 1-5 (1948-1949); Feb 1949; Mar 1949; Apr/May 1949; June/July 1949; Sept 1949; convention issue 1949; Jan 1950; Feb 1950; Mar/Apr 1950; May 1950; June/July 1950; Aug 1950; Oct/Nov 1950; Jan/Feb 1951; Mar 1951; May 1951; June 1951; June/July 1951; Aug/Sept 1951; Oct/Nov 1951; Mar/Apr 1952; May/June 1952; July/Aug 1952; Sept/Oct 1952; Winter 1952; Jan/Feb 1953; Mar/Apr 1953; May/June 1953; Nov 1953; Dec 1953; vol. 10(?), no. 1(?) (1951); vol. 2, no. 2-3 (1955); vol. 3, no. 1 (1957); vol. 4, no. 4-5 (1958); vol. 5, no. 1-3 (1959); vol. 6, no. 1 (1961); vol. 28, no. 2-4 (1972).
National Congress of American Indians newsletter [microform]. Apr 1947; Oct 1947.
NCAI sentinel [microform]. Vol. 13, no. 1-3 (1968); vol. 15, no. 1-4 (1970); vol. 16, no. (4) (1971); vol. 17, no. (4) (1972).
NCAI sentinel bulletin [microform]. Vol. 8, no. 1-3 (1963); vol. 10, no. 1-4 (1965); vol. 11, no. 3-6 (1966); vol. 12, no. 1-5 (1967); Apr 1971; June 1971; Sept/Oct 1971; vol. 29, no. 1-2 (1973).
Native american arts [microform]. No. 1 (1968); no. 2 (1969).
The Native Nevadan [microform]. Vol. 7, no. 8 (1971); vol. 8(7), no. 1(11) (1971); vol. 8, no. 1-(20) (1971-1972).
Navajo times (Window Rock, Ariz. : 1960) [microform]. Vol. 9, no. 1-52 (1968); vol. 10, no. 1-51(52) (1969); vol. 11, no. 1-13, 15-55 (1970); vol. 12, no. 1-10, 12-47, 50-52 (1971); vol. 13, no. 1-7, 9-53 (1972); vol. 14, no. 1-49 (1973).
NIAGI news [microform]. July/Aug 1972.
The Nishnawbe news [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-11 (1971-1972); vol. 2, no. 1-4 (1972).
Northwest Indian news (Seattle, Wash. : 1971) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-10 (1971-1972); vol. 2, no. 1-6 (1972).
Northwest Indian times [microform]. Vol. 3, no. 1-2, 4, 7-8 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1 (1972).
The Oglala war cry [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 18-22 (1971).
OIO newsletter [microform]. Jan-Aug 1971; Jan-June 1972.
River times (Fairbanks, Alaska) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-10 (1971-1972); vol. 2, no. 1-4 (1972).
Rosebud Sioux herald [microform]. Vol. 8, no. 1-17, 21-33, 35, 43 (1970-1971).
Sho-Ban news (Fort Hall, Idaho : 1970) [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 3-4 (1971)
The Smoke signal of the Federated Indians of California [microform]. Vol. 30, no. 1, 3-5 (1971); vol. 31, no. 1-6 (1972).
Smoke signals (Washington, D.C.) [microform]. No. 1-54 (1951-1968).
Smoke talk [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 11-14 (1971); vol. 2, no. 1-2, 4-6, 8-14 (1972).
The Southern Ute drum [microform]. Vol. 2, no. 18, 20 (1971); vol. 3, no. 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1-7, 9-11, 14-25, 27 (1972).
The Speaking leaves [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 4-8, 11-12 (1971); Mar. 1972; Apr. 1972; Sept. 1972; Oct. 1972; no. 11 (Nov. 1972); no. 12 (Dec. 1972).
Talking leaf (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1972) [microform]. Vol. 1 (1972).
The Times of the Americas [microform]. Vol. 15, no. 1-50 (1971); vol. 16, no. 1-44 (1972).
The Tribal spokesman [microform]. Vol. 3, no. 1-10 (1971); vol. 4, no. 1-6, 8-10 (1972).
Tundra times (Fairbanks, Alaska) [microform]. Vol. 7, no. 277-287, 289-292 (1970); vol. 8, no. 13-51 (1971); vol. 9, no. 1-6, 10-68 (1971-1972); vol. 10, no. 1-27, 30-48 (1973).
The Ute bulletin [microform]. Vol. 8, no. 1-3, 5-11 (1972).
Winnebago Indian news [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 1-15, 17-40, 42, 46, 48-53 (1972).
Wotanin [microform]. Vol. 2, no. 1-23 (1971); vol. 3, no. 1-20 (1972).
Yakima Nation review [microform]. Vol. 1, no. 11 (1971); vol. 2, no. 2-3, 5-6, 8-12, 14, 16/17, 16/18, 18, 22-25 (1971); vol. 3, no. 1-7, 10-13 (1972).
English Short Title Catalogue - onine version now available
The English Short Title Cataloge (ESTC) previously accessed via CDRom on workstation 5in Reference has been replaced by the onine version, freely available from the British Library. The Databases A-Z listing has been updated. The CD Rom will be removed and links in the catalogue will be updated to reflect the online version.
Academic Search Premiere now available
Academic Search Premiere (ASP) is now available, the recen tupgrade from Academic Search Elite (ASE)will give full text access access to nearly 2100 new journal titles. (A little more that doubles what we had access to with ASE. We also gain deeper backfile full text (PDF) coverage for certain titles (1975 instead of 1985).
Full description and details:
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premieris an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
Please note:
You will continue to see both ASP and ASE in the "Choose Databases" tab of EBSCO Databases but the default from the Databases page and the Catalogue record will be to search ASP. The ASE listing will remain in place until the existing journal titles that have been catalogued by Serials have had the URL changed to reflect ASP instead of ASE.
The Frequently Used Databases drop down menu will also be changed to reflect the upgrade to Academic Search Premiere.
Who's who in the Middle Ages / Richard K. Emmerson, editor ; Sandra Clayton-Emmerson, assoc. editor London ; New York : Routledge, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: D115 W49 2006
World War I memories : an annotated bibliography of personal accounts published in English since 1919 / Edward G. Lengel ; consulting editor, Martin Gordon. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2004. Lengel, Edward G.
Location: Reference Call Number: D640 A2L54 2004
English/British naval history to 1815 : a guide to the literature / Eugene L. Rasor. Westport, CT ; London : Praeger, 2004. Rasor, Eugene L., 1936-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA70 R37 2004
Bibliography of Westminster Abbey : a guide to the literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret's Church published between 1571 and 2000 / compiled by Tony Trowles. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2005. Trowles, Tony.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA687 W5T76 2005
World of Pompeii / edited by John J. Dobbins and Pedar W. Foss. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: DG70 P7W677 2007
Encyclopedia of American Indian history / [edited by] Bruce E. Johansen, Barry M. Pritzker. Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Denver, CO ; Oxford, Eng. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
Location: Reference Call Number: E77 E48
Praeger handbook on contemporary issues in Native America / Bruce E. Johansen ; foreword by Philip J. Deloria. Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, c2007. Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-
Location: Reference Call Number: E98 S67J65
Only in Canada you say : a treasury of Canadian language / Katherine Barber. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2007. Barber, Katherine, 1959-
Location: Reference Call Number: FC23 B37
Oxford companion to world exploration / David Buisseret, editor in chief. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: G80 O95
Web Link: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t230&subject=s11
Medieval Travel Writing Online has just been published and the Victoria University, BC now has access via IP recognition.
Access has been enabled via IP-recognition (for on-campus access).
www.medievaltravel.amdigital.co.uk
Off-campus (proxy) access will be established shortly, and at that time, this resource will be added to our Gateway website (in the etexts section, I expect).
Marc records (enabling us to catalogue the titles contained in this collection) won't be available until 2008 - it's the native interface for now.
About the collection:
This new collection from Adam Matthew Digital presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia. The collection also includes a number of important accounts of travels to or through the Holy Land although in this it makes no claims to full or even broad coverage: a separate collection, covering crusading and pilgrimage narratives, would be required for that. It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous ‘Beatus’ and ‘Psalter’ maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts. It should become an indispensable source for scholars of medieval travel, geography, exploration, trade, literature, and the new field of medieval postcolonial studies.
The travel texts gathered here cover some of the most widely-read and influential prose works of the late Middle Ages, notably the books of Marco Polo and ‘Sir John Mandeville’ but also important items by authors whose names are now less well-known to non-specialists such as John of Plano Carpini and Odoric of Pordenone. The works of missionaries William of Rubruck, John of Monte Corvino, Andrew of Perugia, Ricold de Monte Croce, Jordanus of Severac, and John de Cora, the ambassador Gonzalez de Clavijo, the merchant Nicolò de Conti, the enslaved Johann (or Hans) Schiltberger, the popular treatise of Hayton (or Hetoum) of Armenia and the possibly fictional travelogue of Johannes Witte de Hese are all represented. There are over 20 copies of the Letter of Prester John, 15 of Marco Polo’s Divisament dou monde in Franco-Italian, Court French, Venetian and Latin, and around 50 copies of ‘Mandeville’s’ Book in its French, German, Italian, Latin and Middle English versions. While the emphasis is on manuscripts held in British libraries the collection also includes a number of items from Austrian, French, German and Swiss holdings, thus making some relatively inaccessible works available to students and scholars of the English-speaking world.
There are many reasons why the works gathered here deserve our attention. As will be discussed in my essay, ‘Travel Writing Studies’ is a speedily-growing field which attracts the attention of historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, geographers and representatives of many other disciplines, yet medieval travel writing is often misinterpreted. Postcolonial studies and theories of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ derived from Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis supply the interpretative modes which dominate readings of early modern and modern travel writing and such approaches are often similarly applied to medieval travel narratives. While these may offer suitable analytical frameworks for application to certain works, they are not appropriate in every case. Closer attention to the content of medieval travel literature and the contexts (social, cultural, political, economic) within which they were produced will enable medievalist scholars from a range of disciplines to develop more period-specific frameworks for this literature and it is hoped that this collection of sources may aid in that endeavour.
‘Medieval Travel Writing Studies’ will however be hindered in its development until more of the key texts are available in modern editions with scholarly translations. There is a good deal of work to be done. Editions of all and translations of most of the items are available, but in many cases new work is desperately needed. Giambattista Ramusio, Samuel Purchas, Richard Hakluyt and Luke Wadding began the process of collating and publishing versions of medieval travel writings from the mid-sixteenth century to early seventeenth centuries, and from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century Sir Henry Yule, Anastasius van den Wyngaert, A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot, Christopher Dawson, and various editors for the Hakluyt Society produced important translations and editions. These are still essential reading for scholars in the field, but many are now in need of new treatments. While the books of John of Plano Carpini, Marco Polo, Ricold de Monte Croce, ‘Sir John Mandeville’ and Johannes Witte de Hese all exist in excellent recent editions, many medieval travel authors are relatively neglected. The Relatio of Odoric of Pordenone, for one, cries out for a new edition and English translation, given its wide circulation in manuscript form (with around 111 manuscripts surviving) and evident impact on medieval readers It was twice translated into French – by John le Long and Jean de Vignay – and was one of the two chief sources for the Book of ‘Sir John Mandeville’. Moreover, for English-language students many of the existing editions, with their valuable scholarly apparatus in Italian, German and French, are of limited utility. Even The Letter of Prester John – not strictly speaking an item of travel literature but nonetheless of vital importance for its influence on later medieval ideas about Asia – lacks a modern edition. Readers must go to Friedrich Zarnke’s 1879 edition with commentary in German, and will search in vain for a full English translation that incorporates and explains each of the major interpolations.
The present paucity of adequate or accessible editions of certain medieval travel texts means that many (possibly most) students of medieval studies reach the end of their studies without ever having read some of the most important and popular works circulating in late medieval European culture. If the present collection of manuscripts is of any aid to future editors and translators in the production of accessible texts for students and scholars then it will have served its purpose well.
Keesing's World News Archive (1931-1987)
This product is being considered to replace the print version currently available in our Reference section... Please send me your feedback, so that we can make a responsible decision.
Keesing’s World News Archive is a web-based database comprising our full archive - more than 95,000 articles, first from 1931-87 as Keesing’s Contemporary Archives, and then as Keesing’s Record of World Events from 1987 to the present. We continue to publish and add to this archive at the rate of about 150 articles per month, thereby adding layer upon layer of recorded fact.
Among the events covered are elections and changes of government; wars, treaties, appointments, and diplomacy; terrorism and issues of internal security; legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements; actions by the UN and other international organisations; natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries.
Trial available until December 31, 2007
Modern intellectual history.
Rural History
Journal of the History of Collections
Journal of Islamic Studies
These new reference books are available now! (These aren't in order.)
Revolutionary movements in world history : from 1750 to present / James V. DeFronzo, editor. Santa Barbara, CA ; Oxford, UK : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: D295 R49 2006
Encyclopedia of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars : a political, social, and military history / editor, Gregory Fremont-Barnes. Santa Barbara, CA ; Oxford, UK : ABC-CLIO, c2006. Location: Reference Call Number: DC220 E53 2006
Government, politics, and protest : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, editors. Detroit, MI : Thomson Gale, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: HN13 G685 2006
Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance : Italy, France, and England / Diana Robin, Anne R. Larsen, Carole Levin, editors. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: HQ1148 E53 2007
Complete encyclopedia of beer : a comprehensive directory of the beers of the world / B. Verhoef. Edision, N.J. : Chartwell Books, 2003, c1997. Verhoef, Berry.
Location: Reference Call Number: TP568 V47 2003
Larousse gastronomique / with the assistance of the Gastronomic Committee, president Joël Robuchon. [Rev. ed.] New York : Clarkson Potter, c2001.
Location: Reference Call Number: TX349 L365 2001
Women and war : a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present / Bernard A. Cook, editor. Santa Barbara, CA ; Oxford, UK : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: U24 W69 2006
The Oxford companion to world exploration / David Buisseret, editor in chief.
Location: Reference Call Number: G80 O95
Also available electronically!
A bibliography of Westminster Abbey : a guide to the literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret’s Church published between 1571 and 2000 / compiled by Tony Trowles.
Location: Reference
Call Number: DA687 W5T76 2005
Title: World War I memories : an annotated bibliography of personal accounts published in English since 1919 / Edward G. Lengel ; consulting editor, Martin Gordon.
Location: Reference Call Number: D640 A2L54 2004
New database purchased -- FRANCIS
We now have access to FRANCIS via the OCLC FirstSearch platform
Description: International, multilingual, multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences
Why select this database?
Indexes multilingual information published in over 4,300 journals
Provides abstracts for 80 percent of its records
Provides in-depth coverage of humanities and social sciences
Subject areas covered:
archaeology linguistics
art history management
ethnology philosophy
French literature prehistory
geography psychology
history of science and technology religion
information science sociology
Simultaneous users: one
Today's workshop is on Ebooks for History - this collection is growing and growing, and includes reference materials, secondary sources, as well as facsimiles and primary sources.
Many of these great resources are available and accessible, but not yet catalogued, so they wont' show up in the Main Library Catalogue, WorldCat, Google Scholar, or 'Where Can I Get This?' yet - to find the native interfaces and search, locate and use the Ebooks, go to gateway.uvic.ca --> Full-Text --> Ebooks and E-Texts.
Of special note is the EBL Collection - these are books that I've selected for our collection. They do display in the main library catalogue, without a link - it'll say 'one copy recieved' and there will be a note about this being an EBL publication. Find and use them at the Electronic Book Library site.
The Blackwell Synergy Collection contains the following journals in History:
Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Art History
Australian Economic History Review
Australian Journal of Politics & History
Centaurus
Diplomatic History
Early Medieval Europe
The Economic History Review
Gender & History
The Historian
Historical Research
History
History and Theory
History Compass
History of Education Quarterly
Journal of Historical Sociology
Journal of Religious History
Journal of Supreme Court History
The Journal of the Historical Society
Renaissance Studies
Monday September 17 saw the launch of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive repository, a key component in humanities research infrastructure for University College Dublin and other third level institutions. IVRLA is a digital archive containing a number of digitised collections from UCD's holdings, of use and interest to Irish humanities researchers. The IVRLA has developed a sophisticated interface enabling users to browse, search, tag and cite digital objects and view or download them in a variety of file formats.
Royal Society Digital Journal Archive - free online access
The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing in excess of 60,000 articles, will be free online from 1 September to 30 November 2007. During this three month period, librarians and academics will be able to access and download any article from arguably the most comprehensive publishing resource in science.
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
The Following new Ejournals have just been added:
Cambridge Journals Online
Including these History titles:
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Central European History
Contemporary European History
European Review of Economic History
Financial History Review
Historical Journal
International Journal of Middle East Studies
International Labor and Working Class History
International Review of Social History
Journal of African History
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of Economic History
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Urban History
Oxford Journals Online with Digital Archive
Including these History titles:
20th Century British History
English Historical Review
French History
History Workshop Journal
Social History of Medicine
Taylor and Francis Journals Online
Including these History journals:
American Communist History
American Nineteenth Century History
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Business History
Cold War History
Contemporary British History
European Journal of the History of Economics
European Review of History
European Romantic Review
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
History and Anthropology
History and Philsophy of Logic
History and Technology
History of Education
Intellectual History Review
International Journal of the History of Sport
Journal of Israeli History
Journal of Legal History
Journal of Natural History
Journal of Pacific History
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Labor History
Media History
Mediterranean Historical Review
Modern and Contemporary France
Rethinking History
Revolutionary Russia
Scandanavian Journal of History
Slavery and Abolition
Social History
Sport in History
Women's History Review
New Databases added this summer include:
BHI: British Humanities Index (1962-current)
Eighteenth Century Journals I and II (1714-1799)
Empire Online
English Reports
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th and 20th Centuries
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984)
Literary Manuscripts
Middle English Dictionary
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919)
People's Daily Newspaper (China: 1946-2004)
Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2003)
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Washington Post (1877-1990)
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1989)
Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
Times Digital Archive (London: 1785-1985)
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900)
All of these are now available through http://gateway.uvic.ca and are listed on the History Research Guides.
Irish families : their names, arms, and origins / by Edward MacLysaght ; illustrated by Myra Maguire. 3rd ed., rev. Dublin : Allen Figgis, 1972. MacLysaght, Edward.
Location: Reference Call Number: CS489 M3 1972
Dictionary of medieval terms and phrases / Christopher Corèdon with Ann Williams. Woodridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2004. Corèdon, Christopher, 1945-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA129 C67 2004
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani / [Redazione, direttore: Alberto M. Ghisalberti]. Roma : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960-
Location: Reference Call Number: DG463 D5
Guide to military museums and other places of military interest / by Terence & Shirley Wise. 8th rev. ed. Knighton, Powys, UK : Terence Wise, 1994. Wise, Terence.
Location: Reference Call Number: U13 A1W58 1994
Now available:
Smart family history : fast track your family research / Geoff Swinfield. Kew : National Archives, 2006. Swinfield, Geoff.
Location: Reference Call Number: CS414 S95 2006
Local historian's glossary of words and terms / Joy Bristow. 3rd ed. Newbury, Berks, England : Countryside Books, 2001. Bristow, Joy.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA1 B76 2001
Local historian's encyclopedia / John Richardson ; with additional material by Brian Christmas ... [et al.] ; section heading illustrations by Jill Dow. 3rd ed. [London] : Historical Publications, 2003. Richardson, John, 1935-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA34 R5 2003
Annals of London : a year-by-year record of a thousand years of history / John Richardson. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000. Richardson, John, 1935-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA677 R52 2000
Historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, Yuan Zhou. Lanham, MD ; Oxford, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Guo, Jian, 1953-
Location: Reference Call Number: DS778.7 G86 2006
Historical atlas of New York City [cartographic material] : a visual celebration of 400 years of New York City's history / Eric Homberger. Rev. and updated [ed.]. New York : Henry Holt, c2005. Homberger, Eric.
Location: Reference/Atlas Cases Call Number: G1254 N4S1 H6 2005
Historical dictionary of the United Nations / Jacques Fomerand. New ed. Lanham, MD ; Plymouth, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2007. Fomerand, Jacques.
Location: Reference Call Number: JZ4984.5 B395 2007
Penguin dictionary of popular Canadian quotations / edited by John Robert Colombo. Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: PN6084 C15P46
Greenhill dictionary of military quotations / edited by Peter G. Tsouras. London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, 2000.
Location: Reference Call Number: PN6084 W35G74
Indexes to fiction in the Illustrated London News, 1842-1901, and the Graphic, 1869-1901 / compiled by Graham Law. [St. Lucia, Qld.] : Victorian Fiction Research Unit, University of Queensland, c2001. Law, Graham.
Location: Reference Call Number: PR871 L34
Southwell Union Workhouse (1834 - 1871)
You can now search and download documents from Southwell Union Workhouse, the best-preserved workhouse in England. These records are a fantastic resource for researchers.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/workhouse.asp
This online collection holds the correspondence between the union and the central authorities. You will find letters, memos, reports and accounts bound from the loose correspondence. You will see details of individual paupers and workhouse staff as well as source material to study indoor and outdoor poor relief, education, building work, public health, local politics and labour history, such as trade unions, Chartism and friendly societies. You can read about specific cases such as the dismissal of medical officers or a report on pauper disturbances in the workhouse.
Now available in the Reference Stacks:
World orders of knighthood & merit / edited by Guy Stair Sainty and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo. Delaware ; Buckingham : Burke's, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: CR4533 W67
Home front encyclopedia : United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II / James Ciment, editor ; Thaddeus Russell, contributing editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: D570 H54 2007
Local historian's glossary of words and terms / Joy Bristow. 3rd ed. Newbury, Berks, England : Countryside Books, 2001. Bristow, Joy.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA1 B76 2001
Local historian's encyclopedia / John Richardson ; with additional material by Brian Christmas ... [et al.] ; section heading illustrations by Jill Dow. 3rd ed. [London] : Historical Publications, 2003. Richardson, John, 1935-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA34 R5 2003
Sources for local historians / Paul Carter and Kate Thompson. Chichester, West Sussex, England : Phillimore, 2005. Carter, Paul.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA32.5 C37 2005
Local historian's encyclopedia / John Richardson ; with additional material by Brian Christmas ... [et al.] ; section heading illustrations by Jill Dow. 3rd ed. [London] : Historical Publications, 2003. Richardson, John, 1935-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA34 R5 2003
Annals of London : a year-by-year record of a thousand years of history / John Richardson. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000. Richardson, John, 1935-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA677 R52 2000
Islamic civilization : history, contributions, and influence : a compendium of literature / S.M. Ghazanfar. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Historical dictionary of the United Nations / Jacques Fomerand. New ed. Lanham, MD ; Plymouth, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2007. Fomerand, Jacques.
Location: Reference Call Number: JZ4984.5 B395 2007
Historical dictionary of United States-China relations / Robert Sutter. Lanham, Md. ; Toronto ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Sutter, Robert G.
Location: Reference Call Number: E183.8 C5S984
Palgrave atlas of Byzantine history / John Haldon. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005. Haldon, John F.
Location: Reference/Atlas Cases Call Number: G1781 S1H3 2005
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food / Andrew F. Smith. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. Smith, Andrew F., 1946-
Location: Reference Call Number: TX370 S63
Cambridge Journals Online; the second journal publisher package offer from CRKN has been activated and is now available from the Databases A-Z page.
Journals for which we hold an exisiting subscription will be updated (approximately 127 titles) and Serials is in the process of cataloguing the new titles (90 titles).
For a complete list of titles, please see: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/bySubjectArea
ProQuest Historical Newspapers online access now available
ProQuest's Historical Newspapers include:
The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
The Washington Post (1877 - 1990)offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Please note: ProQuest's Historical databases cannot be searched in conjunction with ProQuest Classic databases (ie Canadian Newstand). The three Historical Newspapers themselves however, are cross-searchable. From the drop down menu of databases to select from, they can be found at the very end of the list.
The following new reference books are available:
World orders of knighthood & merit / edited by Guy Stair Sainty and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo. Delaware ; Buckingham : Burke's, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: CR4533 W67
Crusades : an encyclopedia / Alan V. Murray, editor. Santa Barbara, CA ; Oxford, England : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: D155 C78 2006
Home front encyclopedia : United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II / James Ciment, editor ; Thaddeus Russell, contributing editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: D570 H54 2007
Sources for local historians / Paul Carter and Kate Thompson. Chichester, West Sussex, England : Phillimore, 2005. Carter, Paul.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA32.5 C37 2005
Ireland : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present / John P. McCarthy. New York : Facts On File, c2006. McCarthy, John P. (John Patrick), 1938-
Location: Reference Call Number: DA911 M3125 2006
Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Washington : Smithsonian Institution : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978-
Location: Reference Call Number: E76.2 H36
Historical dictionary of United States-China relations / Robert Sutter. Lanham, Md. ; Toronto ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Sutter, Robert G.
Location: Reference Call Number: E183.8 C5S984
Palgrave atlas of Byzantine history / John Haldon. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005. Haldon, John F.
Location: Reference/Atlas Cases Call Number: G1781 S1H3 2005
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion / Valerie Steele, editor in chief. Farmington Hills, MI : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005.
Location: Reference Call Number: GT507 E53 2005
Developing effective research proposals / Keith F. Punch. 2nd ed. London ; Thousand Oaks [CA] : SAGE Publications, c2006. Punch, Keith.
Location: Reference Call Number: H62 P93 2006
Biographical dictionary of American economists / general editor, Ross B. Emmett. London ; New York : Thoemmes Continuum, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: HB119 A3B56 2006
Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history / Eric Arneson, editor. New York ; London : Routledge / Taylor & Francis, c2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: HD8066 E56 2007
Cambridge urban history of Britain / [general editor, Peter Clark]. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Location: Reference Call Number: HT133 C275 2000
Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450 / Thomas Benjamin, editor in chief. 1st ed. Detroit [MI] ; London : Macmillan Reference USA, c2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: JV22 E535 2007
King's Theatre Collection : ballet and Italian opera in London 1706-1883 : from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection / a catalogue by Morris S. Levy and John Milton Ward. Rev. and expanded ed. / with an introduction by Curtis Price. Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2006. Levy, Morris S.
Location: Music Reference Call Number: ML136 C23H36 2006
Encyclopedia of swearing : the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language, and ethnic slurs in the English-speaking world / Geoffrey Hughes. Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, c2006. Hughes, Geoffrey, 1939-
Location: Reference Call Number: PE3724 O3H84 2006
Medicine in quotations : views of health and disease through the ages / edited by Edward J. Huth, T. Jock Murray. 2nd ed. Philadelphia : American College of Physicians, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: R705 M465 2006
Now available via the Gateway:
Online Retrospective Wilson Indexes purchased
We now have online access to the retropsective Wilson Indexes which includes:
Readers' Guide (1890-1982)
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective (1907-1984)
Applied Science and Technology Index Retropsective (1913-1983) - available June 2007.
Godot enabled: YES
Simultaneous Users: one
Now available via the Gateway: (Note the coverage dates of these - one goes back to 1220!)
Law databases added to the Databases A-Z listing
Four new Law databases are now available from the Databases A-Z Page.
They are:
Canadian Labour Law Library:
Canadian Labour Law Library features the latest commentary from Brown and Beatty's Canadian Labour Arbitration, 4th Edition , the Labour Arbitration Cases (L.A.C.) and Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (C.L.A.S.) , all linked by a comprehensive Master Table of Cases . Other features include: New This Week. Custom Serach forms and an Advanced Search Feature are available. * Labour Arbitration Cases (L.A.C.), current to Volume 155 Part 3, 4th Series (March 21, 2007) * Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (C.L.A.S.), current to Volume 88, Part 4 (March 14, 2007) * Canadian Labour Arbitration (Brown & Beatty 4th Edition), current to December 2006
Criminal Spectrum:
Criminal Law Spectrum provides access to Canadian criminal cases published in the Canadian Criminal Cases from 1898 to the present, articles and published in the Criminal Law Quarterly journal from 1958, and current Federal and provincial criminal legislation including the Criminal Code. Other commentary includes case annotations and the full text of the following looseleaf publications: Canadian Criminal Procedure, Sentencing: The Practitioner's Guide, Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual, Drug Offences in Canada, Canadian Criminal Evidence, and Criminal Pleadings & Practice in Canada.
English Reports:
The Priestly Law Library now subscribes to a full text, online edition of the English Reports, hosted by HeinOnline. The “English Reports, Full Reprint Library” provides access to over 100, 000 full text English cases from the period of 1220-1865, page-images of the original bound reprint edition, all Indexes and the Book of Charts. Multiple navigation tools such as a Case Locator, Chart Tool, and an Advanced Search feature to enhance the ease of access to specific cases. * browsing by volumes, Indexes and by the Book of Charts. This allows to you view the collection as if you were holding the actual books in your hands.
Martin's Online Crimial Code:
Martin's Online Criminal Code is an online legal research tool that provides users with access to the Criminal Code at a particular point in time, along with the corresponding commentary. Includes the full text of all versions of the Criminal Code dating back to 1955, with synopses and cases referred to in Martin's case law annotations. Users can browse through previous versions of Martin's Annual Criminal Code, or search for a particular section or subsection at a specific date. Table of concordance for cross-referencing provisions from the 1953-54, 1970 and 1985 versions of the Code.
Now available via the gateway:
New online dictionary: Middle English Dictionary
The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.
This is a free resource from the University of Michigan. In 1997 - The University of Michigan was awarded $250,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an electronic Middle English Compendium (MEC), a powerful new resource which promises to break new ground in Middle English studies. The development of the MEC is a joint effort on the part of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, the University of Michigan Press, the English Department, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
For more information on the project view the MEC webiste.
Now available via the Gateway:
New database: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP)
ProQuest's House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) provides access to over 200 years of day-to-day history through documents of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries up to 2004. The database consists of the digitized full image adn full text archive of over 180,000 British parliamentary papers or almost 10,000,000 pages. This comprehensive colleciton includes all sessional papers issues by the House of Commons including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers. The Papers influence public opinion and philosophy, and provide a forum for the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, among them Jenner, Arnold, Trollope, Mill, Faraday, babbage, Telford and Brunel.
Users can browse papers by date, or search the database by keyword(s) or phrase. Each document type is zoned searchable: text,maps/plans, tables, graphs, illustrations, and photographs. Keyword hits are highlighted within the full text. Boolean search is enabled. The database contains enhanced digital reproductions of every page in downloadable PDF file format, accompanied by the bibliographic data and Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Travels, Exploitation and Empire has just arrived in the library!
Click on the link above for full details about this 16 volume set.
This series draws together a representative selection of early travel writing. The first part includes Romantic-period texts dating from the first publishing boom of popular writings on travel. The second part presents contemporaneous accounts of travels in the Victorian era, when British colonialism was approaching its zenith.
We now have all four series:
Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires Part I
Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II
Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770–1835, Part I
Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770–1835, Part II
They just showed up on my review shelves, so they are yet to be catalogued.
Taylor & Francis Journals Online -- Access now available
Purchased through CRKN Phase 2, we now have access to Taylor and Francis Journals online.
Description:
Full text access to +1,100 journals in the sciences (STM) and social sciences and humanities (SSH).
Coverage: January 1997 forwards.
Platform: Access to the journals is on the Informaworld platform.
Tina's Note: includes 55 History journals: See a list here
BHI Online: access now available
BHI: British Humanities Index Onlinereplacing the print equivalent is an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
Access this from the New Resources page, or from the Gateway's 'Humanities Journals' page.
Coverage: 1962-current
Platform: CSA Illumina
Access: Unlimited
People's Daily Online (Archive) Purchased
Description:The People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. This database provides complete official records of the Chinese government from 1946-2004. One simultaneous user is permitted.
http://142.104.36.146:918/web/index.html
Medals : the researcher's guide / William Spencer ; foreword by Michael Tillotson. Kew, Richmond, Surrey : National Archives, 2006. Spencer, William, 1963-
Location: Reference Call Number: CJ6113 S64
Historical dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict / P.R. Kumaraswamy. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Kumaraswamy, P. R.
Location: Reference Call Number: DS119.7 K85
Navajo as seen by the Franciscans, 1898-1921 : a sourcebook / edited by Howard M. Bahr. Lanham, Md. ; Toronto ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Location: Reference Call Number: E99 N3N226
American government leaders : major elected and appointed officials, federal, state and local, 1776-2005 / Harris M. Lentz III. Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Co., c2006. Lentz, Harris M.
Location: Reference Call Number: E176 L5
Geist atlas of Canada : meat maps and other strange cartographies / Melissa Edwards ; introduction by Stephen Osborne. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006. Edwards, Melissa, 1970-
Location: Reference Call Number: FC36 E49
Sex from Plato to Paglia : a philosophical encyclopedia / edited by Alan Soble. Westport, CT ; London : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: HQ12 S435 2006
Ku Klux Klan : history, organization, language, influence and activities of America's most notorious secret society / Michael Newton. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment / Jonathan F. Vance, editor. 2nd ed. Millerton, NY : Grey House Pub., c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: UB800 E53 2006
Badges and insignia of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Brian L. Davis ; colour plates by Malcolm McGregor. London : Arms and Armour ; New York : Sterling Pub. Co. [distributor], 1999. Davis, Brian Leigh.
Location: Reference Call Number: UC535 G3D38 1999
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection (formerly the History E-Book Project) has just added 138 books to its collection, bringing the total to 1507. The latest round includes a significant increase in the number of titles in Women's Studies, adding 66 titles. As current subscribers, we have access to all of the new books added to the collection.
Seven books have been removed at the publisher's request.
Catalogue records for the new books will be added shortly - in the meantime, the whole collection can be accessed from within the site. Http://www.historyebook.org/
These are on the shelf and ready to use! My personal favourite of this batch is Empires At War, which many of the librarians couldn't quit browsing when it first arrived.
Dictionary of British military history / George Usher. 2nd ed. London : A. & C. Black, 2006. Usher, George.
Location: Reference Call Number: DA52 U83 2006
Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War / John A. Wagner. Westport, CT ; London : Greenwood Press, 2006. Wagner, J. A. (John A.)
Location: Reference Call Number: DC96 W34 2006
Encyclopaedia Judaica / Fred Skolnik, editor-in-chief ; Michael Berenbaum, executive editor. 2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA in association with the Keter Pub. House, c2007.
Location: Reference Call Number: DS102.8 E496 2007
War monuments, museums, and library collections of 20th century conflicts : a directory of United States sites / by Steve Rajtar and Frances Elizabeth Franks. Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2002. Rajtar, Steve, 1951-
Location: Reference Call Number: E745 R35
Historical dictionary of socialism / Peter Lamb, James C. Docherty. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD ; Oxford, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Lamb, Peter, 1960-
Location: Reference Call Number: HX17 D63 2006
Historical dictionary of the European Union / Joaquín Roy, Aimee Kanner. Lanham, MD ; Oxford, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Roy, Joaquín, 1943-
Location: Reference Call Number: JN15 R75 2006
British political facts since 1979 / David Butler and Gareth Butler. Basingstoke, Hants, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: JN231 B825 2006
Historical dictionary of the League of Nations / Anique H.M. van Ginneken. Lanham, MD ; Oxford, UK : Scarecrow Press, 2006. Ginneken, Anique H. M. van, 1946-
Location: Reference Call Number: JZ4869 G56 2006
Aircraft recognition guide / Günter Endres & Michael J. Gething. 4th ed. London : HarperCollins, 2005. Endres, Günter G., 1942-
Location: Reference Call Number: TL671 E53 2005
Empires at war : a chronological encyclopedia / Richard A. Gabriel. Westport, CT ; London : Greenwood Press, 2005. Gabriel, Richard A.
Location: Reference Call Number: U29 G232 2005
Dictionary of modern strategy and tactics / Michael Keane. Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c2005. Keane, Michael, 1960-
Location: Reference Call Number: U162 K35 2005
Dictionary of the modern United States military : over 15,000 weapons, agencies, acronyms, slang, installations, medical terms, and other lexical units of warfare / by S.F. Tomajczyk. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1996. Tomajczyk, Stephen F.
Location: Reference Call Number: UA23 T647 1996
Directory of U.S. military bases worldwide / edited by William R. Evinger. 3rd ed. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1998.
Location: Reference Call Number: UA26 A2D57 1998
Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment / Jonathan F. Vance, editor. 2nd ed. Millerton, NY : Grey House Pub., c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: UB800 E53 2006
Badges and insignia of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Brian L. Davis ; colour plates by Malcolm McGregor. London : Arms and Armour ; New York : Sterling Pub. Co. [distributor], 1999. Davis, Brian Leigh.
Location: Reference Call Number: UC535 G3D38 1999
Jane's warship recognition guide. 4th ed. / rev. and edited by Anthony J. Watts. London ; New York : Collins, c2006.
Location: Reference Call Number: V767 J38 2006
"National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945" is a
research database which provides access to essential primary sources on
the history of the "Third Reich". For details please see our product
website http://www.saur.de/zeitgeschichte-online
Your access data:
Please use the following access URL to call up the database "National
Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945":
http://db.saur.de/DGO/basicSearch.faces?user=victoria
The trial is activated via IP and will remain active until 30.03.2007.
Please take a look and send me any comments you have - and note that an English language interface is also available for subscribers.
Worldcat.org
added Oct 30, 2006
Offering a simplified interface to Worldcat. WorldCat.org is a destination Web site released in August 2006 that allows Web users to search the complete WorldCat database and link to online catalog records and services using the same core interface as Open WorldCat. The site also provides a variety of free tools that further promote use of library resources and "virally" spread WorldCat searching among Web users. These include a modular version of the WorldCat search box that any user, library or other organization can place on their Web site; browser toolbars and plug-ins; and a variety of "Affiliate" open-source software and Web services that draw on WorldCat data.
Note that our Main Library Catalogue provides links to this WorldCat, and it in turn links to our Interlibrary Loan system.
CHANT (1500BC - 600AD) added Jan 23, 2007
The CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) database is a long-term project which began in 1988 to build up a comprehensive database of all ancient Chinese texts up to the sixth century AD.
The CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) database project was initiated by the Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988, with the generous support of a grant by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong Government. Its original scope was confined to the building of an electronic database of all pre-220 AD traditional Chinese texts. It has since grown into a long-term project covering all Chinese ancient texts spanning the two millennia from 1500 BC to about 600 AD into one single, vast and comprehensive database which will become a major tool for the study of the entire field of ancient China.
The database includes five components: 1. pre-220 AD (the Pre-Han and Han period) traditional texts; 2. 220-581 AD (the Weijin period) traditional texts; 3. excavated texts on wood/bamboo strips and silk (Jianbo); 4. excavated oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones (Jiaguwen); 5. traditional as well as excavated bronze inscriptions (Jinwen).
New reference books acquired in January 2007 and now on the shelf!:
Cambridge history of science / general editors, David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003-
Location: Reference Call Number: Q125 C32
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani / [Redazione, direttore: Alberto M. Ghisalberti]. Roma : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960-
Location: Reference Call Number: DG463 D5
Territories and states of India / [editors, Tara Boland-Crewe, David Lea] London : Europa, 2002.
Location: Reference Call Number: DS445 T43
Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles added Jan 02, 2007
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic textbase. It is a rich resource for researchers, for students, and for readers with an interest in literature, women's writing, or cultural history more generally. With about five and a half million words of text, it is full of interpretive information on women, writing, and culture. It includes documents on the lives and writing careers of about a thousand writers, together with a great deal of contextual historical material on relevant subjects, such as the law, economics, science, writing by men, education, medicine, politics.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography (55BC-) added Oct 14, 2006
The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography provides links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain, Ireland and the USA, and it provides links to online text where available (you or your institution may need an appropriate subscription to take advantage of some of these links). The bibliography aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications since 1900. The bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals.
RKN Purchase -- Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive has been purchased through CRKN and access has been activated. Links in the catalogue are still being made but I thought people may want to take a look at the product.
Details:
The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Platform: Infotrac (Thomson Gale)
Http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uvictoria
Below is a list of selected new reference books, acquired in the past 4 weeks, now available at McPherson Library:
Encyclopedia of modern dictators : from Napoleon to the present / edited by Frank J. Coppa. New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa / Philip Mattar, editor in chief. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
Women and gender in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia / Margaret Schaus, editor. New York ; London : Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Dictionary of military terms / Richard Bowyer. 3rd ed. London : Bloomsbury, 2004.
Register of the regiments and corps of the British Army : the ancestry of the regiments and corps of the Regular Establishment / edited by Arthur Swinson ; with a foreword by Brian Horrocks. London : The Archive Press ; Distributed by Arms and Armour Press, 1972.
'37 web : equipping the Canadian soldier / Ed Storey. Ottawa : Service Publications, 2003.
We have the opportunity to test this new resource:
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: Middle East Series One
Free Trial: Good Through December 15th, 2006
Link:
http://trials.galegroup.com/pubacd/
Username: title
Password: list
Please take a look and let me know what you think of this product.