The initial release of Part 8: West (and Western) Europe is now available in the online edition of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. This release includes 380,595 articles in 4,458 issues.
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ARTstor Update 7/2/09
ARTstor has announced the following:
Collection agreement: Images from the National Gallery of Art
ARTstor is collaborating with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, to share more than 600 images of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Samuel H. Kress Collection.
Now available in ARTstor: Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from the Warburg Institute
Approximately 1,200 images from the Warburg Institute are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. This first release includes images of European book illustrations from the 16th through 18th centuries.
Bryn Mawr College Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites Collection now in ARTstor
More than 2,700 images of Ancient Near East archaeological sites and monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library.
Oxford Reference Content Update 7/2/09
New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:
- A-Z of Plastic Surgery
- Oxford Companion to the American Musical
- Magic Universe: A Tour of Modern Science
New Editions/Revisions:
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
- Dictionary of British History
- Dictionary of Geography
- Dictionary of Law
- Dictionary of Political Biography
- Dictionary of the Internet
- Oxford Companion to British History
New: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) features fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation – allowing you to hear how words actually sound. More than just a dictionary, OLDO offers a complete suite of language learning support materials for users of all levels: click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, hundreds sample letters, CVs and resumes, notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, extensive links to other sites for further research, and more.
3 New Online Resources from Johns Hopkins University Press
We recently subscribed to The Early Republic, the Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, and the World Shakespeare Bibliography, all produced by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Currently includes 17 volumes of digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. These volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress are used by Congress, historians, political scientists, and jurists to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history.
Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
Online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents?many of them previously classified?from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
The most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1961. Containing over 120,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
New: Literary Manuscripts (Berg)
We now have online access to a collection of Victorian-era manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library. Authors represented in the collection include:
- Matthew Arnold
- The Brontes
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- Wilkie Collins
- Joseph Conrad
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot
- George Gissing
- Thomas Hardy
- Henry James
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- John Ruskin
- Alfred Tennyson
- William Makepeace Thackeray
New Content: Blackwell Reference Online
Our access to Blackwell Reference Online now includes over 350 titles covering all disciplines, including Anthropology, Art, Business & Management, Classics, Communication & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and Sociology. Prior to this, our access only included about 90 titles in the areas of Philosophy and Religion.
New: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
When complete, The Sixties will include over 150,000 pages (plus associated audio & video) of diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Spanning 1960 to 1974, The Sixties is centered on key themes that provide insight into the issues that shaped America and that still resonate in today’s debates: Arts, Music, and Leisure; Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women’s Movement.
New: Counseling & Therapy in Video
Streaming video of counseling sessions, demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews are included in Counseling & Therapy in Video, providing a rich new resource for studies in social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Further information is available within the database.
New: ECCO Part II
An additional 50,000 titles, comprising 7 million pages, have been added to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). The new content is primarly material scanned since the initial release of ECCO in 2003. Further information about both ECCO I and ECCO II is available from the publisher site.