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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]

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)

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.

Bibliography of the History of Art Ceases Publication

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The Temple University Libraries were notified today that the Getty Research Institute has discontinued publication of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), a critical database in the field of art history. Furthermore, we regret to report that the Getty will switch off all access to the BHA at the end of March 2010. Proquest, the distributor through which Temple has had access to the BHA, confirmed in writing to us that the Getty had been looking for a buyer for the database but that as of last week, no other publisher was willing to buy and continue the database. So Getty is pulling the plug. ProQuest maintains that no extension of access for any customers will be possible after March 31.

Alternatives:

  • The Bibliography of the History of Art is a superior database and its coverage has not been duplicated in any single database available to us, but the Temple University Libraries can offer you some alternative databases that provide some overlap of BHA content.
  • ARTbibliographies Modern: Covers around 150 of the journals on BHA’s list, with unsurpassed strengths in areas such as modernism, contemporary global art and photography
  • British Humanities Index: Covers around 80 BHA journals, covering subjects such as fine art, antiques, museums, classical studies, European studies and interdisciplinary studies
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI): Covers 40 BHA journals, with overlapping subject strengths in costume and dress, decorative arts and interiors

Again, all access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will cease on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Please continue to use this resource until then.

— by Jill E. Luedke, Reference & Instruction Librarian / Art Subject Specialist