Eight new titles have recently been added to Cambridge Companions Online:
Over 500 new works have been added to ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas, including important new series from the American Sociological Association, Cambridge University Press, the English Institute, and the Society of Biblical Literature. HEB now offers titles in over 2 dozen disciplinary or area studies, including new areas like performance (theater, music, dance), film & media, literary criticism, sociology, bibliographical studies, history of the book, and biblical studies.
ARTstor has announced the following:
Now available: Art and architecture from pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela photographed by William Keighley (The Metrpolitan Museum of Art)
ARTstor is collaborating with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to make available approximately 900 images of art and architecture from pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela photographed by William Keighley.
Now available: Additional plans of Ancient and Medieval buildings and archaeological sites from Bryn Mawr College
The final set of images depicting plans of archaeological sites and architectural monuments contributed by Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library, bringing the collection total to nearly 8,000 images.
Now available: Architecture by Le Corbusier
ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University to make available approximately 250 images of architecture by Le Corbusier in the Digital Library.
Now available: Photographs of art, architecture, and culture in Southeast Asia and Morocco
ARTstor has collaborated with Barbara Anello to make available 750 images of the architecture, arts, and culture of Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Morocco in the Digital Library.
The following 3 online collections are on trial through 4/24/10:
Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 [Feedback]
“This collection documents in compelling detail the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of Americans from 1800 to 1920” [more info]
“The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travellers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel over the centuries.” [more info]
Victorian Popular Culture [Feedback]
“Victorian Popular Culture welcome readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to magic and spiritualist séances. [It] contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were.” [more info]
We have trial access to the following resources through 4/24/10:
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. For further info see the publisher’s description.
Currently available archives include:
–Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
–Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886
–East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
–Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
–Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
–Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
–Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944
–Global Missions and Theology
–Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
–JFK’s Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963
–James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
–Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
–Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945
–The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
–The Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944
–U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
–U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958
–Women’s Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 [Feedback]
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. For further info see the publisher’s description.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Digital Archive [Feedback]
Complete online facsimile edition, updated to 2005, with full-text searching. For further info see the publisher’s description.
Literature Online (LION) has added 23 new full-text journals:
More than 60 new titles were recently added to Films on Demand.
The following new electronic resources are now available to the Temple community:
Proquest Historical Newspapers
We have a trial of the new Naxos Video Library until 4/30/10. Naxos Video Library provides streaming access to over 200 classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Your feedback is welcome.
ARTstor has announced the following:
Now available: More architecture from the Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)
A new release of more than 7,100 images from the Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) is now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
Now available: More images from the Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan)
ARTstor has recently added the final images from the University of Michigan’s Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) collection in the Digital Library, bringing the collection total to approximately 9,600 images of Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts and Japanese painting and prints.
Now available: Additional Mark Rothko paintings
An additional 55 images from the Rothko Family Collections are now available in the Digital Library. These new images consist of Mark Rothko’s paintings from the 1930s and 1940s.
Now available: Yao ceremonial artifacts from Ohio University
Ohio University has shared approximately 2,800 images of art works and objects created by the Yao people, an ethnic minority from northern Vietnam, which are now available in ARTstor.
Now available: Final images from Canyonlights World Art Image Bank
Approximately 2,200 additional images from Canyonlights World Art Image Bank are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
Collection agreement: Art from the Barnes Foundation
ARTstor is collaborating with the Barnes Foundation to share approximately 2,000 images of works from their permanent collection in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor will include 59 works by Henri Matisse, as well as other European and American paintings, works on paper, and objects.
Collection agreement: John R. Fischetti Cartoon Archive (Columbia College Chicago)ARTstor is collaborating with Columbia College Chicago to share approximately 3,200 images of drawings and sketches by the cartoonist John Fischetti in the Digital Library.