Communication abstracts Comprehensively covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources world-wide. Coverage includes communication literature and literature in other related disciplines, such as international literature in film studies, role of technology in human communications, risk communications, crisis communication and public opinions. Selector: Cristina Ergunay […]
Month: July 2011
New Database:India, Raj and Empire
India, Raj and Empire Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this searchable online resource provides access to digital facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. The collection documents the relationship between Britain and India in […]
New Database:Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon:Artists of the world
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Artists of the world Database contains biographical information on more than 1 million artists. Incorporates the print publications: Thieme-Becker/Vollmer Gesamtregister, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen. Selector: Paula Gabbard Access: IP […]
New Database:Ireland collection
Ireland collection The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. It will contain a minimum of 75 journals, including journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years and ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Over 200 monographs and 2,500 […]
New Database:British records of the Atlantic world
British records of the Atlantic world This series from Microform Academic Publishers includes archival materials such as journals, correspondence, official records and personal papers over a two hundred year period, all related to British involvement in the Atlantic region, including both Africa and the Americas. It brings together a wealth of collections about Britain’s […]
New Database Trial: African American Periodicals
African American Periodicals African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres. These diverse periodicals—which have shaped, and in turn been shaped by, African American culture—will […]
New Database Trial: Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 Featuring more than 130 fully searchable newspapers in 10 languages from 25 states – including many rare 19th-century titles – this online collection provides extensive coverage of many of the most influential ethnic groups in U.S. history. With an emphasis on Americans of Czech, French, German, […]
New Database:Black economic empowerment : the National Negro Business League
Black economic empowerment : the National Negro Business League Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900 he established the League "to promote the commercial and […]
New Database:Japanese-American relocation camp newspapers: perspectives on day-to-day life
Japanese-American relocation camp newspapers : perspectives on day-to-day life One of the darker chapters in American history and one of the lesser discussed events of World War II was the forced internment, during the war, of an important segment of the American population — persons of Japanese descent. This collection, consisting of 25 individual […]
New Database:German folklore and popular culture: Das Kloster
German folklore and popular culture: Das Kloster Das Kloster is a collection of magical and occult texts, chapbooks, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible, between 1845 and 1849. In addition to the Das Kloster volumes, this collection provides additional volumes of unique perspectives on […]