Eresource News: January 2008 Archives

 

 

TU Libraries has recently added Literature Criticism Online to its suite of electronic resources!

Literature Criticism Online is an outstanding reference literature database, offering biographical and bibliographical information on over 3,000 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), in addition to scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

This collection contains the scanned pages of every single volume from two of Gale's popular, print literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (245 volumes currently) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (196 volumes currently).  Just think how much shelf space that would be!  Users can search by known author, text, critic, or source title, as well as by keyword.

Literature Criticism Online is a valuable literary resource and complements well with the Libraries' subscription to Literature Resource Center which contains select collections of critical material from Gale's other literary resources: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.

Be sure to check it out!

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature is now available online via Credo Reference.

The encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to literature written between 500 and 1500.  While primarily devoted to the early literature of England, the volume also includes Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and culture of the Middle Ages.

Entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors, such as Chaucer, and of entire genres, such as drama, ballad, and saga.  Literary works, key individuals, and important themes of the period are also covered.

The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.

Perfect for complementing literary research, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of 19th century history: population, politics and government, economy and work, society and culture, religion, social problems and reform, everyday life, and foreign policy are explored in more than 600 A-to-Z articles.

Hundreds of illustrations and maps are also included, as well as an exhaustive year-by-year chronology, original documents, and tables.

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.

The encyclopedia examines individual poets and poems, and contains many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.

Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

RefWorks recently unveiled some enhancements, including:

• Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Off-line Capabilities (Beta)
• Improved APA Bibliography Formatting
• Automated Marking of Duplicate References for Deletion
• Improved RefGrab-It Results for PubMed and Amazon

Roper Polls content is no longer available via Lexis-Nexis Academic due to publisher decisions.  Temple users will continue to have access to the polling data directly from the Roper Center via iPOLL.  Access to iPOLL requires free registration.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.

Literally hundreds of new journals were recently added to Periodicals Index Online.  Select indexed titles include:

• American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 (1967-1995)
  
• Communication Yearbook (1977-1995)
  
• Doris Lessing Newsletter (1976-1995)
  
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1988-1995)
  
• European Journal of Communication (1986-1995)
  
• Political Communication (1980-1995)
  
• Studies in Scottish Literature (1963-1993)
  
• Victorian Literature and Culture (1973-1995)
  
• Yeats Annual (1982-1995)
  

Be sure to check them out!

Twenty-three new journals were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.  Select titles include: