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.

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.

Early Republic

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Libraries’ have added the 18th Century Parliamentary Papers collection, which is cross-searchable with our existing 19th Century Collection.  As well as sessional papers from both the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Eighteenth Century collection also includes supplementary material: the Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords; Private and Local Bills and Acts; debates (from the Parliamentary Register); and Histories and Proceedings of the House of Commons and House of Lords.  More details about the new collection are available.

The Historical New York Times now includes indexing terms from the venerable New York Times Index.  Researchers can now search the New York Times more precisely by making use of 5 new search fields: subject, location, person, creative works, and company/organization.  The indexing coverage extends through 1993.

The electronic backfiles of the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) and the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) have been added to our collection of Black Historical Newspapers.