Eresource Trials: August 2007 Archives
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.
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