New Electronic Resources: August 2005 Archives

We now have access to Latin American Women Writers (LAWW) from Alexander Street Press. When completed it will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.

In the First Person (or FIRP) indexes "first-person" or primary source material in selected Alexander Street Press databases including Early Encounters in North America, Oral History Online, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Because FIRP indexes letters, diaries, and autobiographies as well as oral historieis, it will contain many more records than are available in the Oral History Online database. FIRP can be used to find primary source material on the free web as well, and is itself a free resource.

Royal Society of Chemistry Archives contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. This comes to approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.

Alexander Street Press has begun adding the full-run of the Black Panther Party newspaper to the Black Thought & Culture collection.

http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/bltc/documentidx.pl?sourceid=S1

2,500 pages of Black Panther oral histories will also be added to the collection--see the press release.

-Al Vara, Reference