Victorian Popular Culture Spiritualism, mesmerism, psychical science and secular magic together define the cultural fields presented in this collection. It is concerned with primarily English texts published during the "long" nineteenth century, from the beginnings of Mesmerism in 1779 through to the 1930s. Access: IP Selector: John Tofanelli […]
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New Database: BFI Screenonline
BFI Screenonline BFI Screenonline is an extensive publicly available encyclopaedia devoted to British film and television. The site is supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, specially commissioned for BFI Screenonline alongside thousands of stills, posters and press books. Film clips are accessible only to registered UK schools, colleges, universities and public […]
New Database: World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean Digital Archive
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean Digital Archive World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean Digital Archive offers a rich collection of primary source documents about the region; academic journals and news feeds, reference articles and commentary, maps and statistics; audio and video and more. Access: IP Selector: Sean Knowlton The trial runs through October […]
New Database Trial: Virginia Company Archives
Virginia Company Archives This is an essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. It documents: the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from […]
New Database:Short story index (Online)
Short story index (Online) Short Story Index Electronic Edition is the electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story Index. It provides access to more than 96,000 stories — plus the full text of more than 4,000 stories. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index. […]
New Database:Short story index retrospective
Short story index retrospective This is an invaluable source for those seeking short fiction by a favorite author, a body of work by a specific literary figure or a particular genre of short stories. It contains more than 140,000 short stories from some 350 periodicals and collections of short stories. It cites short stories […]
New Database: Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 Digital images of collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, exploring the history of Jewish communities in America from the arrival of the first Jews in the 17th century through to the mid-20th century. All of the typescript and printed material is full-text searchable. Selector: Michelle […]
New Database: World Biographical Information System
World Biographical Information System Contains full-text biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. Compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen. Initial collections include American; British; German; and […]
New Database: TRIS Online
TRIS Online TRIS Online is a public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database. TRIS coverage includes the disciplines of planning, finance, design and construction, materials, environmental issues, safety and human factors and operations for the modes of highways, transit, railroads, maritime and aviation. ERC: Danianne Mizzy Access: IP […]
New Database Trial: Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 From the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Confidential Print: Middle East is a fundamental […]