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TU Libraries is currently trialing the database, BBC Monitoring Library.BBC Monitoring Library reports news from state owned, independent and clandestine media sources in over 150 countries, in more than 100 languages to provide a distinctive and internationally respected news service. BBC Monitoring operates around the clock, reporting on political and economic events that have an impact upon internal affairs, international relations, human rights and business. News is translated in to English without additional analysis or editorial comment to ensure the impartiality and authority expected from the BBC.
The trial ends May 30th. Let us know if this database would be useful to you in your research/projects!
TU Libraries is currently trialing the newspaper database, PressDisplay.PressDisplay provides digital, interactive replicas of more than 450 print newspapers and magazines, from 70 countries, in 37 languages, making it an indispensable news source for anyone who not only wants multiple perspectives on the news, but also wants to see the original print layout/format.
A 'one-stop shop' for the world's most prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Telegraph, and The Los Angeles Times, these publications may be viewed in their original format using a standard Web browser or through a BlackBerry, iPhone or smart mobile device.
Users can search for the last 60 days worth of newspapers by country, language, or title and also perform keyword searches. Articles may be printed, saved, or emailed for later use. Articles from many foreign language publications can be instantly translated into one of several major foreign languages.
The trial lasts until April 11th and is password-based. The password is "welcome."
Be sure to check PressDisplay out, and let me know if the Libraries should add it to its collection of eResources!
TU Libraries is currently trialing Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700.Perdita Manuscripts contains digital facsimiles of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The manuscripts are varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical materials, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.
The trial lasts until March 6th.
Be sure to check it out, and let me know if the Libraries should add it to its collection of eResources!
TU Libraries is currently trialing 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection.The Burney Collection is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relating political, educational and economic situations.
The trial lasts through February 2nd. Let us know if you believe this resource should be added to our eResource collection permanently.
TU Libraries is currently trialing the following digital news archives:Let us know if you believe any or all of these sources should be added to our collection of eResources permanently.
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An online Milton Bibliography, is currently available via the research database ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
An invaluable resource for Milton scholars, as well as literary and history scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the bibliography brings together the manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, plus studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, allusions and quotations, in addition to all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799.
The Journal, Early Theatre & Records of Early English Drama is also available.
TU Libraries is currently trialing Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.
Orlando is devoted to six centuries of women's writing in the British Isles. Biographical and critical accounts for over 1,000 women are provided. Select non-British or international women writers, and British and international men, whose writing was an important, sometimes a shaping, element in a particular writing climate are also included.
In addition, the database offers "entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, internal links and bibliographies. Entries are tagged, enabling searchers to focus not only on author, date and place but also on such issues as genre, intertextuality, and relations with publishers."
The trial will last through September.
Available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published annually since 1948. All issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, are available online.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
The trial lasts through September.
TU Libraries is currently trialing Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers & Periodicals, 1685-1815.The Eighteenth Century Journals portal offers seamless access to Sections I and II of the Eighteenth Century Journals collection. The collection itself brings together rare journals printed between 1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years.
Much of the material included in this collection is rare and also not found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Early English Newspapers, or Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.
The trial lasts until August 22nd.
TU Libraries is currently trialing British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries.British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries is a collection of published diaries, letters, manuscripts, and memoirs from nearly 500 British, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh women, dating from the 1500s to the 1900s.
All forms of diaries – religious, travel, and journalistic – are included in the collection from women from all walks of life, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Queens Victoria and Elizabeth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale, and Maude Gonne. Their topics discussed range from convent life and courtesans to missionaries and social reforms.
Additional information about the database is available.
The trials lasts until September 14th.