Eresource News: June 2007 Archives
Literature Online (LION) now offers RSS feeds to allow users to keep up to date with news about its content and functionality developments. See About RSS feeds to learn how to subscribe.Also, three new titles have been added to LION's library of full-text journals: Boston Review, Atlanta Review, and Carolina Quarterly.
Journal Finder will be getting a new look during the last week in June. Journal Finder is the database of journals, magazines, and newspapers - either online or in print - available to the entire Temple University community.In addition to the new look, Journal Finder will also have improved subject-browsing capabilities, making finding scholarly journals in specific subject areas easier.
If you would like to try out the new version in advance, a preview is available.
Two of the Libraries' Alexander Street Press databases - Latino Literature and Latin American Women Writers - have a new look!
If you visit the collections today, you will see the original interface, but on your right there is a link to the new interface. The two interfaces will run in tandem for awhile prior to the new one going live, solo. Features of the new interface include:
Latino Literature contains fiction, poetry, and plays of Latin American writers from the Chicano Renaissance to the present, as well as select nineteenth century material. Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States are represented. Texts appear in their original language, English or Spanish.
Latin American Women Writers contains prose, poetry, essays, memoirs, and plays of Latina writers from the Colonial period to the present. Mexican, Central American, and South American writers are represented, as well as leading feminist Latina writers.
If you visit the collections today, you will see the original interface, but on your right there is a link to the new interface. The two interfaces will run in tandem for awhile prior to the new one going live, solo. Features of the new interface include:
- RSS feeds to notify you when new materials are added
- Redesigned Advanced Search tool
- Red highlighting of keywords searched
Latino Literature contains fiction, poetry, and plays of Latin American writers from the Chicano Renaissance to the present, as well as select nineteenth century material. Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States are represented. Texts appear in their original language, English or Spanish. Latin American Women Writers contains prose, poetry, essays, memoirs, and plays of Latina writers from the Colonial period to the present. Mexican, Central American, and South American writers are represented, as well as leading feminist Latina writers.
The following journals in JSTOR now have links to more current issues via other partners:- American Literary History, vols. 14-18 (issue 3), 2002-2006
- Cinema Journal, vols. 43 (issue 2) - 45 (issue 3), 2004-2006
- Critical Inquiry, vols. 28 (issue3) - 33 (issue 1), 2002-2006
- International Journal of American Linguistics, vols. 69-72 (issue 3), 2003-2006
- Journal of British Studies, vols. 41 (issue 3) - 45 (issue 2), 2002-2006
- Modern Philology, vols. 100 (issue 3) - 103, 2003-2006
- SubStance, vols. 34-35, 2005-2006
TU Libraries now has access to The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 via its own search interface! The famed index indexes 45 major 19th century British periodicals on Victorian thought and opinion. Subjects covered include: literature, religion, politics, social science, women's studies, science and the arts.
The Index also identifies authorship of unsigned articles and includes a table of contents for every periodical indexed.
The Wellesley Index is also available online via C19: The Nineteenth Century Index.
Questions or comments can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
TU Libraries now has online access to Black Literature Index, a collection of 70,000 poems, literary reviews and pieces of fiction published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
Temple Libraries now has access to Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County, 1819-1870 . This database contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements, and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity, and material culture of Delaware County communities during the 19th century. Material from the following newspapers is included: - Delaware County American, Media Pennsylvania
- Delaware County Republican, Darby & Chester, Pennsylvania
- The Upland Union, Pennsylvania
- Delaware County Democrat, Chester, Pennsylvania
- The Post Boy, Chester, Pennsylvania