For help with your research, use the UW Research Guide on the sidebar of your CourseWorks page: http://library.columbia.edu/subjects/ENGL/ENGLC1010.html The research librarians in Butler Library can help you in a number of ways: –we can help you find scholarly resources in our library databases –we can help you determine the scholarly merit of a resource –we […]
Category: Databases
PHI Latin Texts–now online
For years, the best collection of searchable texts from Latin antiquity was the Packard Humanities Institute PHI CD-ROM #5.3, available in the Digital Humanities Center in 305 Butler. Getting these texts available online was the Holy Grail of digital classics research. But now the Grail is at hand, as the Latin texts from PHI 3.5 […]
Medieval Studies: Finding Secondary Sources Online
There are several resources online for identifying secondary literature: articles, books, dissertations, etc. It is prudent to take advantage of all of these resources for a given topic, rather than relying on a single resource to provide all possible results. International Medieval Bibliography Online Bibliography de Civilisation Médiévale https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio4134323 The International Medieval Bibliography […]
Medieval Studies: Finding Primary Sources Online
The Libraries subscribe to a wide number of resources that provide access to Latin texts of the Middle Ages. Here are some you might find useful (this is a selection, not a comprehensive list). You can bookmark the URLs below for use from any location: Patrologia Latina: the full-text database https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/ANC0798 An electronic edition of […]
Getting the Most Out of LibraryWeb
Behind the simple facade of the libraries main page lies a wealth of information and assistance. From locating materials in the Columbia libraries, to identifying and using electronic resources, to getting delivery of materials from peer libraries, to managing your research tools, to where to go for help when it all becomes too much….there’s a […]
HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository
Columbia is a member of the HathiTrust Digital Library, a vast repository of nearly 9 million volumes, 2.5 million of which are full-text searchable. Though international in scope, The HathiTrust collection is especially useful for magazines & journals published before 1924, US government documents, and multi-volume works. Login for the most complete search options, which […]
Germanistik
Columbia has recently acquired the online version of Germanistik www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio8407640 This index lists books, essays, and articles published from 1960 to the present on German language and literature, including theater, media, and cultural history. The entries for the first ten years have fairly basic search terms ("Shakespeare and English drama in German popular journals, […]
International Women’s Day Centenary
: A few of our databases for research on women and gender: Recent Scholarship Gender Studies Database LGBT Life Contemporary Women’s Issues Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index Historical Full Text Resources Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1543-1945 Everyday Life and Women in America, 1820-1900 Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 Letters […]
New Database: Jewish Life in America c1654-1954
Jewish Life in America c1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society provides full online access to 24 collections of personal papers, and partial access to the papers and archives of six organizations. Collections span 300 years, and are especially strong in material relating to Jewish life in New York. Included are letters, diaries, photographs […]
Proximity Operators for Full-Text Searching
Proximity operators are an important tool for focusing the results of free text searches, particularly in full-text databases. Sadly, there is little uniformity in the syntax for proximity searching across various database families. The chart below, created by DHC Head Bob Scott, provides a key to some of the databases found on the Columbia Libraries […]