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.

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.

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: Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection (1688-1834)

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.

Periodicals Index / Archive Update 6/26/09

Full-text of the following 50 titles were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.  Of particular note is the full backfile of The Spectator [1828-2000], the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language.

  • American journal of Islamic social sciences
    Coverage: 1984-2000
  • American journal of semiotics
    Coverage: 1981, 1983-1984, 1986-2000 only
  • Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik
    Coverage: 1972-1988, 1990-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • The Beethoven journal
    Coverage: 1986-2000
  • Behavior and philosophy
    Coverage: 1972-2000
  • The Bucknell review
    Coverage: 1941-1963, 1965-1995 only
  • Daphnis
    Coverage: 1972-2000
  • The Eighteenth century
    Coverage: 1959-2000
  • European Judaism
    Coverage: 1966-2000
  • Explorations in Renaissance culture
    Coverage: 1974-1993, 1995-2000 only
  • Fifteenth century studies
    Coverage: 1978-1988, 1990-2000 only
  • French politics, culture and society
    Coverage: 1985-1986, 1988-2000 only
  • Geography : journal of the Geographical Association
    Coverage: 1902-1909, 1911-2000 only
  • George Herbert journal
    Coverage: 1977-2000
  • German politics and society
    Coverage: 1983-1995 only
  • Goethe yearbook
    Coverage: 1982-1992, 1996-2000 only
  • Grazer philosophische Studien
    Coverage: 1975-2000
  • Harvard Ukrainian studies
    Coverage: 1977-2000
  • Higher education review
    Coverage: 1968-1995 only
  • Historical reflections/Réflexions historiques
    Coverage: 1974-1990, 1992-1995 only
  • Indian economic journal
    Coverage: 1953-1955, 1958-1961, 1963-1969, 1971-1975, 1977-1980, 1982, 1984-1995 only
  • Islamic quarterly
    Coverage: 1956, 1959-1965, 1967-1978, 1980-1991, 1993-1995 only
  • Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
    Coverage: 1936-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • Journal of band research
    Coverage: 1964-2000
  • Journal of Canadian studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
    Coverage: 1966-2000
  • The Journal of Caribbean history
    Coverage: 1970-1997, 1999-2000 only
  • A Journal of church and state
    Coverage: 1959-2000
  • Journal of comparative family studies
    Coverage: 1970-1995 only
  • The Journal of psychohistory
    Coverage: 1973-2001
  • Journal of rehabilitation
    Coverage: 1939-1945, 1947-1986 only
  • Journal of sport behavior
    Coverage: 1980-2000 only
  • Journal of thought
    Coverage: 1967-1995 only
  • JPMS : Journal of political and military sociology
    Coverage: 1973-2000
  • Judaism
    Coverage: 1952-2000
  • London magazine
    Coverage: 1954-1960, 1962-1980, 1982-1995, 1997-2001 only
  • The Negro educational review
    Coverage: 1950-1989, 1994-1995 only
  • Pacific linguistics. Series A
    Coverage: 1963-1998
  • Pacific studies
    Coverage: 1977-1980, 1982-1992, 1994 only
  • Perspektiven der Philosophie
    Coverage: 1969-1984, 1987-2000 only
  • The Psychoanalytic review (1913-1957)
    Coverage: 1913-1923, 1940-1957 only
  • Rural sociology
    Coverage: 1936-1945, 1947-1956, 1958-1959, 1961, 1963-1964, 1966-1967, 1969-1975, 1989-1995 only
  • Social analysis
    Coverage: 1979-1995 only
  • Social justice : a journal of crime, conflict and world order
    Coverage: 1974-1980, 1982-2000 only
  • Sociological focus
    Coverage: 1971-2000 only
  • The Spectator
    Coverage: 1828-2000
  • Studia Leibnitiana
    Coverage: 1969-1995 only
  • Theatre history studies
    Coverage: 1981, 1983-2000 only
  • Theoria
    Coverage: 1947-2000
  • Visible language
    Coverage: 1967-2000
  • The Western journal of black studies
    Coverage: 1977-2000

The following 34 titles were recently added to Periodicals Index Online:

  • Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo, Boletín
  • Englishwoman
  • Essays in Arts and Sciences
  • European Journal of Marketing
  • Hespéris Tamuda
  • Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Instituto
  • International Journal on World Peace
  • International Statistical Review/Revue International de Statistique
  • Journal des économistes
  • Journal of Agricultural Science
  • Journal of Curriculum Studies
  • Judges’ Journal
  • Library Administration and Management
  • Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
  • McGill Journal of Education
  • Messenger
  • Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift
  • Minerva (1962)
  • Northern Architect
  • Ohio Educational Monthly
  • Omega
  • Pacific Viewpoint
  • Presidential Studies Quarterly
  • Public Welfare
  • Regional Studies
  • School and College
  • Scots Magazine
  • Serials Librarian
  • Spectator
  • Theatre Record
  • Threepenny Review
  • Universitas
  • Wilson Quarterly