3 New Trials from Adam Matthew Digital

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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  [Feedback]

“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]

3 New Trials

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We have trial access to the following resources through 4/24/10:

Archives Unbound  [Feedback]

Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.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) Content Update 3/29/10

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Literature Online (LION) has added 23 new full-text journals:

  • African Studies Review (Apr 2003 – current)
  • American Journal of Philology (Fall 2002 – current)
  • Analog Science Fiction & Fact (Nov 1997 – current)
  • Antigonish Review (Winter 2004 – current)
  • Arcadia (2004 – current)
  • Bookbird (Spring 1998 – current)
  • Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Jan 2003 – current)
  • Canadian Women’s Studies (Winter 1993 – current)
  • Classical Quarterly (2001 – one year ago)
  • Critical Matrix (1985 – current)
  • Daphnis (2004 – current)
  • French Forum (Winter 2004 – current)
  • Journal of American Culture (Spring 1994 – current)
  • Neophilologus (1997 – current)
  • Phoenix: The Journal of the Classics Association of Canada (Spring 2002 – 3 years ago)
  • Ploughshares (Spring 1994 – current)
  • Resources for Feminist Research (Spring/Summer 1993 – current)
  • River Teeth (Spring 2004 – current)
  • Romanic Review (Nov 1997 – current)
  • TheatreForum (Winter/Spring 2004 – current)
  • Western Journal of Black Studies (Spring 1998 – current)
  • Zeitschrift für Deutsches Alterthum und Deutsche Litteratur (2008 – current
  • Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (2004 – 3 years ago)

Join Us For Digital Day E-Resource Fairs

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Temple University Libraries will celebrate Digital Day — a celebration of our fantastic e-resources — this Wednesday, March 24, from 11:00am to 2:00pm with two e-resource fairs held concurrently in Paley and SEAL libraries. Vendors and library staff will be on hand to familiarize you with the wide range of library resources and services available for research. Vendors include:

PALEY:

  • Alexander Street Press
  • AP Images-Credo Reference
  • EbscoHost
  • Films Media Group
  • Gale
  • LexisNexis
  • Oxford University Press
  • ProQuest
  • SourceOECD

SEAL:

  • IEEE
  • Elsevier
  • ProQuest
  • Books 24 x 7
  • Web of Science
  • Reaxys
  • Biological Abstracts
  • ScienceDirect
  • Compendex
  • INSPEC
  • Avery Index
  • Safari Tech Books Online

There will be food and drink, prizes, and raffles too! Enter the raffles to win great prizes including: a Kindle, Flip Mino camcorders, a Nintendo DS, an iPod, plus gift cards to Amazon, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, and more! We hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the fairs — these are fabulous ways to learn how the library’s e-resources can help you with your research!

Please know that owing to the fairs you can expect a higher noise level on the first floor of the Paley Library, particularly on the east side of the building (normally a quiet zone). In addition, there will be fewer computers available on the east side of the first floor of Paley Library, but there will still be many computers available in the Library.

Hope to see you there!

New E-Resources: Mid-March Edition

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The following new electronic resources are now available to the Temple community:

Black Women Writers

  • eventually totaling 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays
  • brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora

Book Review Index Online

  • more than 5 million book review citations from thousands of publications

BuildingGreen

  • features comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building
  • includes online versions of the GreenSpec directory of products and Environmental Building News

GREENR

  • focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues
  • topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development
  • portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia

Patrologia Latina

  • comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216

Proquest Historical Newspapers

ARTstor Update 3/16/10

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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.