Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925, part II was recently added to the Columbia University Libraries. This second part of the Science Technology and Medicine collection includes some three million pages of scientific material from the late seventeenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century, with a primary focus […]

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Database Trial: Numerique Premium

  We are currently trialing a new database of French e-books, Numérique Premium, through April 12, 2014. The collection contains nearly 850 full-text titles in a variety of fields, including history, religion, philosophy, politics, literature/literary theory, film, and architecture. Publishers include:  Belles Lettres, Canadian Scholars Press, CNRS éditions, ENS éditions, Gallimard,Flammarion, Nouveau Monde, Picard, Presses universitaires de […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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