Try our newest article search, from the yellow "Find Articles" tab on the library home page: Described as a "webscale discovery service" it is very fast, searches a vast number of articles in both journals and newspapers, and often searches both full-text and citations. Facets allow you to quickly narrow a search by article type […]
Category: Databases
Ancestry Library
Researching a specific person, family, or town? Ancestry Library is a searchable database that includes census data through 1930, as well as records of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and military service. It also includes court, land, and probate records; prison records; voter lists; obituaries; passenger lists and other immigration data; as well as digitlized yearbooks, […]
New database: Medieval Family Life
Just added to the Columbia Libraries roster of medieval resources, Medieval Family Life contains scanned images of 15th- and 16th-century correspondence along with full transcriptions. The papers of the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armbrugh families are accompanied by additional resources such as concurrent historical and family chronologies, an interactive map, family trees, and many […]
New resources: Brill’s Jacoby and the SEG
The Libraries have added two new items to our collection of resources for Classics and Ancient History: Brill’s New Jacoby Online and the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Brill’s New Jacoby Online is a new edition of the 856 fragmentary histories that comprise F. Jacoby’s monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III, but with significant additions. […]
New database: BTL & TLL Online
Now added to the complement of Classics resources is the online Teubneriana and Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. The new digital online versions of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) and the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) replace the former CD-Rom versions of BTL 4 and TLL 5. They offer a fundamentally remodelled user interface, which allows users to search both […]
How to Find City Histories, 1910-1940
Reference Librarian Mary Cargill suggests: 1. NHGIS (http://www.nhgis.org/) This is a free service from the University of Minnesota. Though I can’t find it on their website, the Map Division has the software, and has experience using it. It will map and create detailed information based on the historical census statistics, and the students were finding […]
New Database: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: Middle East Online I
Arab Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: Middle East Online Series I is a dual-language (English and Arabic) online archive of documents from British government files on the politics, administration, wars, and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 offers a wide range of "original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, […]
MLA Bibliography Database Trials
The MLA Bibliography is moving from the FirstSearch platform at the end of June, and we need to select a new interface. We have trials with each of the different database vendors. Please let us know which interface you prefer. MLA Bibliography from Ebsco MLA Bibliography from Gale/Infotrac MLA Bibliography from ProQuest/CSA MLA Bibliography […]
New Database: Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Debuting this week is a brand new database devoted to the history of alternative comics: Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. This collection includes original material from the 1950s to today along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism […]
Military History Institute
The website of the Military History Institute at Carlisle PA (official name: U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center) http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp is a gold mine of useful information, both bibliographic and full text, for an area in which Columbia traditionally hasn’t been strong. There are two basic catalogs listed on this link, the Research Catalog, which is […]