New Resources

• The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
  Date: 03/30/2009
  Brief Description: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America. Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. The collection is further enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.

• African American Music Reference
  Date: 01/15/2009
  African American Music Reference is bringing togther text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

• AGU’s Digital Library and Backfile
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The library now includes all AGU journals from volume 1, issue 1 through material published in 2002 and almost all books older than 5 years. Every year, the library will expand to include another full year; e.g., in 2009, content from 2003 will be added to the library. As of the library's launch in January 2008, all journals published by AGU are available, except for International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. Books, lectures/interviews and the newspaper, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, will be added as completed.

• American Civil War Research Database
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. ... In addition to 222 volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records, Roll of Honor records, Medal of Honor records, and regimental histories. This information has been compiled from personal items, graveyards, and newspaper reports.

• American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Images
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. ... In addition to 222 volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records, Roll of Honor records, Medal of Honor records, and regimental histories. This information has been compiled from personal items, graveyards, and newspaper reports.

• American Film Scripts Online
  Date: 01/15/2009
  American Film Scripts Online is an ongoing full-text project. The collection of feature films, when completed, will hold 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes. Many of the scripts have never been published. The database is full-text searchable and includes detailed indexing on scenes, characters, and people. Supplemental information includes short biographies on the writers and awards given to individual films have been noted.

• Black Drama, Second Edition
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Black Drama, Second Edition contains the full text of 1,310 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection of black drama, is the project's editorial advisor. The database covers key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists of the 1940s. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works. Many were published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, others have never before been published or performed. The plays explore themes including civil rights, desegregation, and a wide range of ideologies - integrationist and separatist, revolutionary and nationalist. While the collection is strong in social and political drama, it also covers domestic drama and satires.

• Black Short Fiction and Folklore
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Contains stories, folktales, and short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.

• Black Thought and Culture
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published.

• Black Women Writers
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Black women writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.

• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
  Date: 01/15/2009
  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

• Caribbean Literature
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature. The database currently has over 7,000 pages.

• Classical Music Reference Library
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The Classical music reference library brings together reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are the reference titles Baker's dictionary of music, Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, Baker's student encyclopedia of music and Women composers: music through the ages. Provides coverage of all classical genres, from the Medieval period to the 21st century.

• Classical Scores Library
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Collection of important classical music scores, manuscripts, and unpublished material. Provides for textual searching by various criteria.

• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
  Date: 01/15/2009
  A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.

• Digital Karl Barth Library
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The current release features the English translation of Barth's magnum opus, The Church Dogmatics, in its entirety. The original German version, Die kirchliche Dogmatik, is also included as are the first 36 volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. These volumes are supplemented by seven additional German works that have not yet been published as part of the Gesamtausgabe and English translations of thirteen important texts by Barth. New content will be added on a quarterly basis.

• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
  Date: 01/15/2009
  A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. The database uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other works by hundreds of Protestant authors.

• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

• The Gilded Age
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The Gilded Age brings together primary documents and scholarly commentary into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history. When complete, the collection will contain over 50,000 pages of fully searchable text and associated audio and video material. These materials are frequently rare and hard-to-find, and include songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. In addition, the collection features numerous critical documentary essays that provide scholarly commentary and annotations to selected primary sources. Spanning from 1865 to 1902, The Gilded Age provides insight into the key issues that shaped America in the late nineteenth century, including race and ethnicity, immigration, labor, women's rights, American Indians, political corruption, and monetary policy.

• History Compass
  Date: 01/15/2009
  History Compass publishes peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline. Unique in both range and approach, the journal explores all branches of historical scholarship. History Compass plays an active role in fostering research that spans centuries and continents, and provides an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.

• Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Contains full-text articles from periodicals, including campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. Document types include advertisement, article series, biographical sketch/obituary, cartoon, editorial, fiction, government announcement, humor / satirical commentary, illustration, map, news story/item, panoramic view, poetry, portrait, publisher's notice, and travel narrative.

• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. Compiled and edited by Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska, the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project. New content is added to the collection on a regular basis.

• Language and Linguistics Compass
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Language and Linguistics Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Language and Linguistics Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.

• Latin American Women Writers
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region.

• Literature Compass
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: survey articles foreground important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. Generating a strong sense of dialogue and engagement, Literature Compass gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.

• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
  Date: 01/15/2009
  North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.

• North American Indian Thought and Culture
  Date: 01/15/2009
  North American Indian thought and culture contains biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Cochise, Jim Thorpe, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Geronimo, Hosteen Klah, Black Elk, Pocahontas, George Washington Grayson, Standing Buffalo, and many more.

• North American Indian Drama
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Full text of plays by American Indian and First Nations playwrights of the 20th century, information about the plays and their production, and biographical data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada , including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter.

• Opera in Video
  Date: 01/15/2009
  A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. The 2008 release includes 40 videos, equaling 80 hours.

• Philosophy Compass
  Date: 01/15/2009
  In an age of hyper-specialization, Philosophy Compass provides an ideal starting point for the non-specialist, offering pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, to help them find and interpret the best research in the field.

• Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family
  Date: 01/15/2009
  Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

• Twentieth Century North American Drama
  Date: 01/15/2009
  When complete, Twentieth Century North American Drama will contain the full text of 1,500 plays written from the late 1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays. Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. The result is an exceptionally deep and unified collection that illustrates the many purposes that theater has served.

• Women and Social Movements Scholar's Edition
  Date: 01/15/2009
  The Scholar's Edition includes all features of the Basic Edition that have been published since March 2004. It currently includes 72 document projects with 2,100 documents, 28,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. This edition also includes the Women's Commission reports collection, an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. A future release of the Scholar's Edition will also include the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form.

• Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
  Date: 01/05/2009
  Journal Citation Reports^® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

• Community of Science
  Date: 11/26/2008
  Database provides access to federal and private grant opportunities in all disciplines in the physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, arts and humanities. Also includes funding alerts service, COS funding news, a weekly top ten funding opportunities list, and a form for submitting funding opportunities.

• Multi Data Online
  Date: 09/18/2008
  An electronic, documented, research tool, specialized in the political, economic, strategic, and social issues in the Arab world. Data are collected from around 250 Arab newspapers and specialized periodicals and can be retrieved as full texts or bibliographical lists.

• National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals (NICNP)
  Date: 09/18/2008
  Brief Description: National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals covers information for over one and half centuries, since 1833. It contains over 25 million entries from about 15 thousand newspapers and periodicals, with a yearly update of 3.5 million entries.

• University of California Press Journals
  Date: 09/18/2008
  One of the largest, most distinguished, and innovative of the university presses today, its collection of print and online journals spans topics in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in sociology, musicology, history, religion, cultural and area studies, ornithology, law, and literature.

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
  Date: 07/31/2008
  The most comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. The C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 16.3 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. C19 Index now provides integrated access to 12 bibliographic indexes, including almost a million records from the ongoing digitization of British Periodicals Collections I and II.

• Karger Online Journals
  Date: 07/31/2008
  Access to more than 70 journals in the scientific, medical and biomedical fields available from Karger Publishers from 1998 forward.

• Physics Today Archive
  Date: 03/06/2008
  Physics Today is the most influential and closely followed physics magazine in the world. This online archive provides full text access from 1985 to all but the most recent 12 months of the magazine, links to related articles and news stories from around the web, and an online research center, an indispensable tool that brings together the latest articles from a growing number of online publishing platforms including Scitation and arXiv.

• University of Chicago Press Online Journals
  Date: 03/06/2008
  Chicago Journals Online is a fully searchable online portal including nearly fifty scholarly journals and annuals - from the latest research in a wide range of subjects to historical content dating from the founding of the University of Chicago Press in 1892 when it began publishing the Journal of Political Economy. The website has features such as free e-TOC alerts by e-mail or RSS and publish-when-ready articles before print publication.