Electronic Resources Archive

New Electronic Resources

Islamic Studies E-resources

The Library has recently taken out new subscriptions to Index Islamicus and Oxford Islamic Studies Online making available a wealth of information about all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. These new resources complement the Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an to which staff and students already have access.

Index Islamicus

Index Islamicus indexes literature in European languages from over 3,000 journals together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.  It includes not only materials about the Middle East, but also the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere.  Records in the database go as far back as 1906.

Index Islamicus can be accessed via MetaLib.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Oxford Islamic Studies is a collection of over 4,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, maps, images and primary sources.  It incorporates several important reference works including; The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, along with two major English translations of the Qur’an and Hannis Kassis’s A Concordance of the Qur’an, which links English words and their corresponding transliterated Arabic terms to the Qur’an texts.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive

The 'First World War Poetry Archive' and the 'Great War Archive' bring together 13,500 digital images, film and audio items many of which are rare primary source material. The two archives, both available freely at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ were launched to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day.

The War Poetry Archive is an online repository of text, images, audio and video that can be used for teaching, learning and research. The poetry collection consist of primary material from the major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Vera Brittain and Issac Rosenberg. Whilst the photographic, film and audio collections cover events such as The Somme and Gallipoli, and other subjects such as commemoration and the daily lives of those living through the First World War.

Many items submitted to the 'Great War Archive' by members of the public are treasured family heirlooms which have never been on public display. These items include:

  • A bullet-dented tea can which saved the life of an engineer who repaired a bombing post whilst under heavy fire in Bullecort in November 1917.
  • A souvenir matchbox made by a German POW for a British Lance Corporal after they had fought a fierce fire together, saving many lives.
  • Remarkable sketches of scenes and characters from military and civilian life by Private Percy Matthews, until now, an unknown artist.

Both archives can be searched or browsed by keyword and can be viewed as original images/recordings and downloaded to a PC.

This resource is also available via MetaLib.

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Mass Observation Online

Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organization whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1972. Mass Observation Online is a companion to the Mass Observation Archive microfilm series which is already available in the Library. The microfilm series contains the papers from the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. It describes everyday life in the words of ordinary people, with extensive interviews and records of overheard conversations, and is also a source of contemporary ephemera.

Mass Observation Online includes:

  • A complete set of the File reports from 1937 – 1972 with 3,000 typed original reports [the File reports from 1937 to 1949 are also held by the Library on microfiche].
  • Twenty five books published by Mass-Observation between 1937 and 1950 and pamphlets and workbooks published by the Mass Observation Archive.
  • Seven newly published Topic Collections covering; Famous Persons; Household Matters and Household Budgeting, 1939-1950; Juvenile Delinquency; Korea, 1950; Radio Listening, 1939-1948; and World Outlook, 1945-1950. The Topic Collections give access to the raw material behind many of Mass Observation’s published studies.
  • The Day Surveys 1937-1938, diaries recording details of a single day, written by members of Mass Observation’s National Panel.
  • The Diaries 1939-1940, personal diaries often giving a daily record of events.
  • Directives 1939-1940, containing specific responses to questions on a whole range of topics including, among many others, such things as drinking, religion and political beliefs.
  • Supporting material including contextual essays, and essays on research strategies, interactive maps, a bibliography, a chronology, and photographs by Humphrey Spender.

Mass Observation Online uses a number of different search types with keyword searching of the full text of the File reports and publications. Search results can be viewed as a highlighted transcript or as an original image. It is also possible to search or browse listings for the entire Mass Observation collection including material available digitally, on microfilm or held at the Archive itself.

Mass Observation Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition

The Millennial edition of Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS), published in 2006, includes over 37,000 data series in a completely revised, updated, and expanded version of the previous three editions. Recognised as a standard source for quantitative indicators of American history, it gives access to data covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.

Each chapter within HSUS is accompanied by introductory essays providing historical context, information about sources, and a guide to the reliability of the data. All the tables have full documentation, sources, and footnotes, and users are able to:

  • Download selected tables as Excel or CSV files
  • Sort data
  • Create and download charts, graphs and plots
  • Select certain years or series of years to view, download, print, or graph
  • Download unrounded table data for more detailed statistical analyses
  • Create custom tables

Historical Statistics of the United States can be accessed via the Library Catalogue or at http://hsus.cambridge.org/.

From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. Off campus users will need to set up access via the University web cache or VPN.

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LocalawUK

LocalawUK is a Sweet and Maxwell research service focussing on local government law. The University subscribes to the housing module of the service.

Housing

The housing modules gives access to the Encyclopedia of Housing Law and Practice (general editor: Andrew Arden QC) and includes:

  • Housing Acts, Rent Acts, Leasehold Reform Acts and all other relevant legislation
  • Statutory instruments, annotated as appropriate, Ministerial Circulars and Housing Corporation Circulars
  • Journal of Housing Law: 1997 onwards
  • Housing Law Reports: 1986 onwards
  • Tables of Cases, Statutes and Statutory Instruments
  • Conventional coverage on provision and management of housing, housing finance, homelessness and allocation (including asylum and immigration provisions), security of tenure in all sectors, right to buy, and other forms of enfranchisement, disrepair, grant-aid and registered social landlords
  • Daily LocALERT bulletins on Housing and Social Services

LocalawUK can be accessed via MetaLib or at http://www.localaw.co.uk/. From both on and off campus users must log in using a unique username and password.

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State Papers Online Part 1: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic

This major new resource gives access to the complete collection of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era, with 380,000 facsimile images of manuscript documents linked to fully searchable Calendar entries. As the official records of the Secretaries of State serving the ruling monarch of the day, the State Papers contain a wide range of material on almost every subject including:

  • Letters to and from local officers or private persons
  • Letters to and from the monarchs
  • Letters to and from the Secretaries of State
  • Documents in cipher
  • Letters to and from ambassadors abroad
  • Instructions to commissioners and to special missions
  • Depositions, documents covering the Crown's revenues and possessions
  • Private papers and papers produced by the office's internal administration
  • Drafts of proposals or of acts of Parliament

This key primary source material is accompanied by a range of supporting information and tools:

  • Introductory essays and essays by leading scholars on major themes and topics covered by the Papers with links through to the manuscript documents
  • Direct links to a sample of key documents within the archive
  • An Image library including portraits, illustrations, maps, seals, prints and other visual works
  • Reference material including lists of abbreviations, a chronology, details of dates, weights and measures, and notes on the holders of the main offices of government
  • Links to online palaeography and Latin courses and other selected web sites

State Papers Online incorporates a range of search and view functions:

  • Basic search for a quick search of the text of all the Calendars
  • Advanced search for searching on specific fields from the indexes with a range of limiters
  • Browsing of manuscript volumes folio by folio, and Calendars page by page
  • View a Calendar entry side by side with a manuscript
  • Compare two manuscripts selected from a marked list

State Papers Online can be accessed via MetaLib. The Calendars of State Papers are also available via British History Online.

University staff and students will also have access to the State papers Online Part 2: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council when it is released in 2009.

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NewsFilm Online

This JISC funded collection gives access to over 3,000 hours of digitised television news and cinema newsreels taken from the ITN/Reuters archive. There are over 50,000 clips which can be viewed online or downloaded and additional resources including running orders and scripts, images, and background information on news footage.

The footage in NewsFilm Online is drawn from three sources:

Television news

  • Channel 4 News : daily bulletins on current events from 1982 to the present
  • Channel 5 News : from 1997 to christmas 2004
  • ITN : content from clip reels, collections, reports, rushes, specials, and open-enders
  • ITV News : daily bulletins on current events from 1955 to the present
  • Roving Reports : weekly news documentary films from 1957 to 1967

Cinema newsreels

  • British Paramount : newsreels from 1931 to 1957
  • Empire News : newsreels, human interest stories, and sports events from 1926 to 1930
  • Gaumont British : newsreels from 1934 to 1959
  • Gaumont Graphic: silent newsreels from 1910 to 1932
  • Universal News : newsreels from 1930 to 1956

Press agency newsfeeds

  • Visnews : newsfeeds from 1957 to 1992
  • Reuters Television : newsfeeds from 1993 to the present

NewsFilm Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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British History Online (Calendars of State Papers)

The Library has taken out a subscription to the premium content from British History Online, which includes all the volumes of the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic and the Calendars of State Papers for Scotland and Ireland:

  • Calendar of the Committee for Advance of Money
  • Calendar of Border Papers
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III
  • Calendar of the Committee for Compounding
  • Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (Edward, Mary and Elizabeth)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (James I)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (Charles I)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (Interregnum)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (Charles II)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (James II)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (William and Mary)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (Anne)
  • Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
  • Calendar of State Papers, Scotland

Further series of State Papers will be added throughout 2008-09, for more information please see the British History Online brochure.

British History Online also gives free access to digitised versions of a range of other primary and secondary sources for the medieval and early modern history of Britain.

British History Online can be accessed via MetaLib or at http://www.british-history.ac.uk. From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. To access the premium content from off campus users will need to use the University web cache or VPN.

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IEEE/IET Electronic Library

This key resource gives access to nearly one third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and related areas.

The IEEE/IET Electronic Library includes:

  • All IEEE and IET journals, magazines and transactions.
  • All IEEE and IET conference proceedings.
  • All approved and published IEEE standards, excluding drafts.
  • Full text access to almost 2 million documents.
  • Complete backfiles to 1988, plus selected content back to 1913.
  • INSPEC abstract/citation and bibliographic records.
  • Access via the fully searchable IEEE Xplore platform.
  • Weekly updates with over 12,500 new documents added per month.

The IEEE/IET Electronic Library can be accessed via MetaLib and individual journals can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

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New E-Journal packages

A significant number of new e-journals are now available to University staff and students with the addition of four major packages to the Library’s holdings. The new packages are:

ResearchNow

This package gives access to the full text of 47 peer-reviewed Berkeley Electronic Press journals. The subject areas covered include:

ResearchNow also gives access to working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” from a range of participating institutional and subject-matter repositories, including Digital Commons repositories, COBRA: the Collection Of Biostatistics Research Archive, and the Berkeley Electronic Press Legal Repository.

ResearchNow can be accessed via MetaLib and individual journals can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

Sage Journals

  • More than 450 Sage titles covering subjects in the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
  • For a list of all titles see Sage Journals Online, select the option to browse within ‘SAGE Content Available to Me’ to see the titles subscribed to by the University, or look under Sage in the Find e-Journals list.
  • The Library has also acquired the Sage journal backfiles so access to the full text from volume 1 issue 1 is available for selected titles.

Sage journals can be accessed via MetaLib and individual journals can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

Springer Collection

  • 1,200 titles across 13 subject areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
  • All titles are hosted on SpringerLink which is fully searchable and can be browsed alphabetically by journal title or by subject (titles subscribed to by the University are indicated with a green square).
  • For an alphabetical list including only the titles subscribed to by the University look under SpringerLink in the Find e-Journal list.
  • The Library is also acquiring a selection of Springer e-journal backfiles. Publicity for these will be released when they are available.

Springer e-journals can be accessed via SpringerLink, and individual journals can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

Taylor and Francis e-journals

  • Over 1,150 Taylor and Francis e-journals from across a wide range of subject areas in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  • All titles are hosted on Informaworld which is fully searchable and can be browsed alphabetically by journal title or by subject (titles subscribed to by the University are indicated with a yellow or green square).
  • For an alphabetical list including only the titles subscribed to by the University look under Informaworld in the Find e-Journal list.
  • The Library is also acquiring a selection of Taylor and Francis e-journal backfiles. Publicity for these will be released when they are available.

Taylor and Francis e-journals can be accessed via Informaworld and individual journals can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

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American Institute of Physics Digital Archive

University staff and students now have perpetual access to the AIP Digital Archive containing all AIP journal content older than five years. The Archive currently includes over 400,000 articles from the following titles:

  • Applied Physics Letters (1962 - 2002)
  • Chaos (1991 -2002)
  • Journal of Applied Physics (1931 - 2002)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (1933 - 2002)
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics (1960 - 2002)
  • Physics of Fluids (1958 - 2002)
  • Physics of Plasmas (1989 - 2002)
  • Review of Scientific Instruments (1930-2002)

All these titles can be accessed via the http://journals.aip.org/, the Find e-Journal list, or the Library catalogue.

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Abstract and Index

The Dissertations and Theses: Abstract and Index database from ProQuest is a comprehensive index of 2.3 million graduate dissertations and theses from around the world. Entries for dissertations published since 1980 and theses published since 1988 include abstracts written by the author, and some theses and dissertations also have a 24 page preview. There are bibliographic citations for dissertations from as far back as 1861.

Please note that the ‘Order a copy’ option within Dissertations and Theses is for ordering the manuscript directly from ProQuest. The University Library is able to obtain some British and American doctoral theses via the Interlending and Document Supply Service.

Dissertations and Theses: Abstract and Index can be accessed via MetaLib. Staff and students also have access to Index to Theses which covers Great Britain and Ireland only.

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Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700

This collection has been produced in association with the Perdita Project, based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, which set out to identify and describe all types of writing in manuscript by early modern women. It brings together little know material written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and includes complete digital facsimiles of nearly 270 original manuscripts drawn from 14 major libraries and archives in the UK and North America.

The manuscripts within the collection represent a wide variety of women’s writing and include account books, almanacs, diaries, notebooks, receipt books, sermon notes, speeches, and treatises. The types of writing include biography and autobiography, drama, history, prayers, psalms, meditations, advice, translations, travel writing, cookery and medical recipes, and poetry. Bibliographical information is provided for all the manuscripts and, where available, biographies of the authors. Two introductory essays place the collection in context and provide background information.

The manuscripts have been indexed by the Perdita Project and can be browsed by author, key names in documents, places, genre within documents, and first lines of poetry and prose. The collection can also be searched using the basic or advanced search options.

The Perdita Manuscripts can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Geology Digimap

Geology Digimap gives access to geology maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS) at scales of 1:50,000, 1:250,000 and 1:625,000:

  • 1:625,000 Scale themes ( UK coverage – vector data)
    • Solid Geology
    • Drift Deposits
  • 1:250,000 scale themes (GB coverage – vector data)
    • Solid Geology
    • Drift deposits (Incomplete)
  • 1:50,000 scale themes (GB coverage – vector data)
    • Solid geology
    • Drift deposits
    • Mass movements
    • Artificial ground

Geology Digimap will be updated annually if updates are available.

The Digimap service also gives access to current Ordnance Survey of Great Britain digital data through the Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection, and historic Ordnance Survey maps through Historic Digimap.

Digimap can be accessed via MetaLib. Please contact Peter Halls the GIS Advisor, via IT Services, before using Digimap for the first time.

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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

This database gives access to six language modules offering up-to-date, accurate, and authoritative translations for millions of words and phrases from and into English. The following modules are available to University staff and students:

French-English; English-French
Over 360,000 words and phrases and over 550,000 translations comprising the full A-Z text of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary.

German-English; English-German
Over 320,000 words and phrases and over 520,000 translations comprising the full A-Z text of the Oxford-Duden German Dictionary.

Italian-English; English-Italian
Over 300,000 words and phrases and over 450,000 translations comprising the full A-Z text of the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary.

Spanish-English; English-Spanish
Over 300,000 words and phrases and over 500,000 translations comprising the full A-Z text of the Oxford Spanish Dictionary.

Chinese-English; English-Chinese
Over 220,000 words, phrases, and translations from the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary (Third edition).

Russian-English; English-Russian
Featuring over 500,000 words, phrases, and translations from the Oxford Russian Dictionary (Fourth edition).

Each fully searchable bilingual dictionary is supplemented by a range of support materials including verb tables, grammar help, downloadable correspondence templates and look-up tools, themed word lists, interactive exercises, and cultural notes with information about the countries included in the database.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Nature - 18 new titles

Following a consultation with relevant departments the Library has added 18 new Nature titles to its existing Nature subscriptions. The new titles are:

All these titles can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue.

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Who’s Who and Who Was Who

Who's Who and Who Was Who are now available online exclusively from Oxford University Press.

Who’s Who currently contains information on over 32,000 people, with details of birthdays, families, education, titles, career, publications and creative works, personal interests, clubs, and addresses. The information for the entries is gathered from the individuals themselves and is then checked and standardised. Who's Who is updated throughout the year. Who Was Who collects together the entries of more than 100,000 people included in the archives of Who’s Who dating back to 1898.

Who’s Who and Who Was Who can be accessed via http://www.ukwhoswho.com/ or the Library catalogue.

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BBC Listener Research Department, 1937 to c.1950

This online archive covers the years 1937 to c.1950 and is part 1 of the BBC Audience Research Reports. The collection includes all the available weekly audience summaries, together with the weekly then daily listening barometers. Also included are audience reaction reports on particular programmes, special reports on specific themes or issues, and key policy documents. The archive is accompanied by an introductory essay which puts the collection in context and presents background information.

The collection retains the arrangement and numeration of the original archive and is divided up into files containing groups of related documents, which are themselves made up of individual images.

BBC Listener Research Department can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Annual Register: A Record of World Events

The Annual Register online includes the full text of all the published volumes from 1758 up to the present and is updated annually. The full text can be searched by keyword, or searches can be restricted to the indexes. All searches can be limited by year. The contents of individual volumes can also be browsed by year.

The Annual Register was originally conceived as both a chronicle of events and a miscellany, reproducing state papers, reviewing important books, and featuring historical sketches, poetry, observations on natural history, and other essays, reproduced from books and periodicals. This format continued until 1775 when the history section became the main focus of the Register. From the 1920’s the Register took on its present form with a section about the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. These are followed by the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.

The Annual Register can be accessed via MetaLib. Selected copies of the Annual Register are also available in print in the Library.

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Casetrack and Case Alerter

Casetrack and Case Alerter are law current awareness services made freely available to universities by WordWave International, part of the Merrill Corporation.

Casetrack contains the full text of judgments from the following courts and is updated daily:

  • Court of Appeal (Criminal & Civil Divisions) - April 1996 to present.
  • Administrative Court incorporating Crown Office archive - April 1996 to present.
  • High Court (all divisions) - July 1998 to present.
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal - July 1998 to present.
  • VAT Tribunal - January 2002 to present.

Casetrack also includes searchable links to House of Lords and Privy Council judgments from November 1996 to present; access to judgments from the Northern Irish Courts; selected judgments from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.

Case Alerter is a current awareness service which highlights the most important judgments from the Court of Appeal and High Court and provides a summary of each case. There are links to Casetrack for the full text of cases.

Casetrack can be accessed via MetaLib, or at http://www.casetrack.com/.

Case Alerter can be accessed via MetaLib, or at http://www.casealerter.com/.

For access both on and off campus a unique username and password are required.

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Independent Local Radio Programme Sharing Database

This database contains streaming audio of around 1,120 recordings of Independent Local Radio programmes broadcast between 1983 and 1990 and included in the ILR Programme Sharing Scheme which enabled features, drama, music and news producers working in commercial radio around Britain to offer material, including a significant body of speech-based programming produced locally, to other stations.

The ILR Programme Sharing Database can be accessed via MetaLib.

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American newspaper and periodical archives

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The Library has purchased three titles from this collection, giving complete cover-to-cover access to every issue of each title with full-page and article facsimile images. The available American titles are:

The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939)
Once described as “The Voice of the New South”, the paper was a leader in shaping Southern opinion on regional and national issues.

Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
One of the most widely circulated black newspapers in the south during the 1930’s; the Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent.

The Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
By the time of the First World War the Chicago Defender was one of the leading and most influential black newspapers with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.

All three titles can be accessed via MetaLib.

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The Pennsylvania Gazette Online

This archive gives access to the full text of what was once one of the most prominent newspapers in the United States, with coverage from 1728 until it ceased publication in 1800. It gives a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic.

The Pennsylvania Gazette Online can be accessed via MetaLib. From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. Off campus users will need to set up access via the University web cache or VPN.

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The Nation, National Review, and New Republic digital archives

The Nation, National Review, and New Republic are currently three of the leading US journals of opinion and commentary on political, economic and cultural issues. These archives give access to all three periodicals from issue one to the present.

The Nation
Established in 1865, this is one of America's oldest weekly publications and includes a range of writings on politics, culture, books and the arts. Contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the journal has also published the work of many major writers such as W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, and Thomas Mann.

The National Review
Founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley Jr., it describes itself as America’s most influential journal of conservative opinion, and covers political, economic, social and cultural issues and trends.

The New Republic
Founded in 1914 and often described as America’s leading journal of opinion, it covers a wide range of topics from a variety of viewpoints including politics, foreign policy, culture, current events, and the arts.

All three periodicals are available on EBSCOhost and can be accessed via MetaLib, the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue.

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Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

This resource gives access to over 63,000 declassified primary documents relating to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. The material is organised into 30 collections covering countries such as Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Nicaragua, the Philippines, South Africa, the Soviet Union and Vietnam, and themes including terrorism, espionage, intelligence, weapons of mass destruction, the military use of space, nuclear arms, non-proliferation, national security, and the telephone conversations of Henry Kissinger.

The collections within the DNSA contain a wide range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, emails, confidential letters, and other secret material. Each collection is accompanied by an introductory essay giving background and contextual information, and reference aids including a chronology, glossary, and bibliography.

An in-depth index created by the National Security Archive provides document-level access to subjects, individuals and organizations, and important transactions within each document are also indexed individually using a controlled subject vocabulary. The index can be searched by keyword and by specific fields. Searches can be limited to particular collections and the chronology, glossary, and bibliography can be searched separately. The full text of the documents is not searchable.

The Digital National Security Archive can be accessed via MetaLib or at http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com. From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. Off campus users will need to set up access via the University web cache or VPN.

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Jazz Discography Online

Jazz Discography Online is a comprehensive database of information about jazz records and jazz recording sessions. It contains details of over 183,000 recording sessions from 1896 onwards in all genres of jazz, more than 35,000 leaders and over 400,000 record releases. There are also more than 1 million musician and tune entries. Use Jazz Discography Online to find:

  • All recordings made by any particular bandleader
  • All the sidemen and the instruments they played
  • All recordings made by any particular sideman
  • Which musicians played with which bandleaders
  • Who recorded a particular tune, when, and where
  • The musicians who played with other musicians
  • Session recording dates and locations
  • Record companies and release numbers

Jazz Discography Online can be accessed via MetaLib. From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. Off campus users will need to set up access via the University web cache or VPN. When you have finished using Jazz Discography Online please logout using the 'Logout' option, as the Library’s subscription only allows for two concurrent users.

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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

This guide has been compiled by specialist from around the world and presents more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It is updated annually.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism can be accessed at http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/ or via the Library catalogue.

From PCs on the campus network, no additional username/password is necessary. Off campus users will need to set up access via the University web cache or VPN.

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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 20th century

University of York staff and students now have online access to parliamentary papers from 1901 to 2003/04 via House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP). The addition of the 20th century papers means that HCPP now provides coverage of parliamentary papers from 1688 to the present day.

For the 20th century up to the 1978-79 session, papers are ordered by volume and page number, matching the structure of the original bound volumes. From 1979-80 onwards papers are ordered by type (Bills, House of Commons Papers and Command Papers). HCPP does not include debates (Hansard), the House of Commons Journal, or daily business papers, such as Order papers and Votes and Proceedings, as these are not classed as parliamentary papers.

HCPP can be accessed via MetaLib. Logging in to any one of the collections gives access to all the content available on HCPP.

Papers for the eighteenth century are also available online via the Eighteenth Century Official British Parliamentary Publications Portal.

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

This major reference tool combines the scholarship of the much acclaimed 10 volume print edition with the flexibility of an online resource. There are more than 2,000 articles covering all areas of philosophy and this online edition is regularly revised and updated. Over 100 new articles have been added in the last eight years.

The encyclopedia has both basic and advanced search options and can be browsed alphabetically by article. There are over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and also links to a selection of editorially reviewed external web resources.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy can be accessed via MetaLib.

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The John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera

This collection provides access to a wide range of different types of printed documents from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It includes posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a variety of printed advertising material. Each item is presented as a full-colour, high-resolution facsimile.

The digitisation project for the John Johnson Collection is ongoing. This release currently contains more than 24,200 catalogue records and has nearly 38,000 images of over 14,600 items. The complete collection is scheduled to be available by mid-2009 and will have 65,000 items and in excess of 150,000 images.

The John Johnson Collection can be accessed via MetaLib.

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GreenFILE

GreenFILE, made freely available by EBSCO, is a bibliographic database focusing on all aspects of the relationship between human beings and the environment. It covers a wide range of topics including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and alternate fuel sources.

GreenFILE indexes more than 600 titles including scholarly and general interest titles, government documents, and reports, with coverage going back more than 35 years in some cases. In total there are nearly 300,000 records, open access full text for more than 4,600 records, and searchable cited references for over 200 titles.

GreenFILE can be accessed at http://www.greeninfoonline.com or via MetaLib.

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International Index to Performing Arts Full Text

International Index to Performing Arts Full Text (IIPAFT) is a major database of the journal literature on the performing arts and covers a broad range of areas including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, comedy, broadcast arts and performance art.

IIPAFT includes indexing and abstracts for more than 240 international titles and the full text of articles from over 80 journals. For each title there is an abstract of every journal article from 1998 onwards and there is also retrospective access to selected titles, much of which starts with the first issue of the journal. IIPAFT is updated monthly with new records.

IIPAFT can be accessed via MetaLib. Individual full text journals can also be accessed via the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue.

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Economist Historical Archive 1843 - 2003

This archive gives access to a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003, amounting to 8,000 issues and more than 600,000 pages. Issues are presented in facsimile with full-colour images and a selection of exportable financial tables. Topic and area supplements and surveys are also included in the archive, as is a gallery of front covers.

The basic keyword search can be limited by year, date, date range, media (photographs, maps, display advertising, graphical or exportable tables), supplement (articles and titles), or commentary (by The Economist's editorial leaders: Bagehot, Lexington, and Charlemagne). Searches can also be carried out on a range of fields within the database and within specific issues or articles. Issues can also be browsed by date.

The Economist Historical Archive can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Historic UK newspaper and periodical archives

17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

This collection is a digitised version of the newspapers, news-books, pamphlets, ephemera, and other early forms of newspapers from the Reverend Charles Burney Collection held at the British Library. The collection includes almost 1 million pages from around 1,270 titles and while the majority of these originate from London, there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the colonies.

17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers can be accessed via MetaLib.

The Burney Collection complements the 19th Century British Library Newspapers to which University staff and students already have access.

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19th Century UK Periodicals Online Series 1: New Readerships

This collection provides access to facsimile editions of almost 100 periodicals from the 19th century focusing on women, sports and leisure, children, and humour and satire. The collection is mainly based on the repositories of the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

19th Century UK Periodicals Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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The Guardian and Observer Archive

When complete this full text archive will include page and article facsimile images of the Guardian from 1821 to 2003, and the Observer from 1791 to 2003. The complete Guardian archive is scheduled to be available by October 2008, and the Observer by the end of December 2008.

The Guardian and Observer Archive can be accessed via MetaLib.

The Guardian and Observer Archive complements the Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, and the Daily Mirror Digital Archive, which are already available to University staff and students.

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New Past Masters Philosophy titles

Four new collections of full text material have recently been added to the Library’s existing Past Masters collections which currently include the works of a number of major philosophers, and the correspondence, diaries, memoirs and notebooks of some of the most distinguished writers, statesmen, scientists, churchmen, explorers and philosophers in British history.

The new collections are:

The Latin Background 1100-1550 - featuring texts and correspondence of Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury, Roger Bacon, John Wycliffe, and Richard Fox.

Arthur Schopenhauer: Hauptwerke - based on the first six volumes of his Sämmtliche Werke.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Gesamtbriefwechsel/Complete Correspondence

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Texts and Context/Schriftenreihe der Wittgenstein Gesellschaft - the first 25 issues of the Schriftenreihe (publications series) from the Wittgenstein Gesellschaft of Austria.

Past Master can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Peoples Archive

An archive of online movies featuring detailed life stories of the world's greatest thinkers, creators and achievers narrated in one-to-one interviews.

The life stories are arranged into seven sections covering Arts, Film, Literature, Masters, Medicine, Politics and Science and are accompanied by transcripts with complete bibliographies or filmographies, external links to relevant websites and illustrations. Peoples Archive is a dynamic resource with new life stories continually being added.

Peoples Archive is freely available online at http://www.peoplesarchive.com/ or can be accessed via MetaLib.

Peoples Archive requires QuickTime 7 or higher. For home PCs QuickTime is available to download free of charge.

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Project MUSE Premium Collection

Project MUSE, founded by Johns Hopkins University Press, is a collection of peer-reviewed scholarly journals from almost ninety not-for-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and scholarly societies. Project MUSE currently contains the full text of over 380 titles in the humanities and social sciences covering areas such as literature, history, politics and policy studies, economics, education, film, religion and women's studies.

Project MUSE is fully searchable on a number of fields, and individual journal titles or subject areas can be searched separately. Project MUSE also incorporates a range of additional tools and resources including training and usage guides.

Individual titles in Project MUSE can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue. Project MUSE can also be accessed via MetaLib.

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New JSTOR collections

University staff and students now have access to over 1,000 full text journals via JSTOR following the recent addition of several new collections to the Library’s subscription. The content of all the JSTOR multidisciplinary collections (Arts & Sciences I to VI, Arts & Sciences Complement, Life Sciences) is now accessible, and together these multidisciplinary collections include all the content of the subject collections:

In addition, staff and students also now have access to JSTOR’s first regional collection, the Ireland collection.

Individual titles in JSTOR can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue. JSTOR can also be accessed via MetaLib.

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Carlyle Letters Online

Carlyle Letters Online has been made freely available as a digital archive by Duke University Press. The archive is based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle and gives access to the full text of over 10,000 letters including their correspondence with some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of their day.

The letters can be browsed by date, recipient, subject and volume, and the archive is also fully searchable. Carlyle Letters Online also includes background material about the Carlyles, the digitization of the letters, and the print edition.

Carlyle Letters Online can be accessed at http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/ or via MetaLib. The print edition of the letters is also available in the Library.

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SourceOECD Education

This theme gives access to all the books published by OECD since 1998 in the area of education, all the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) reports, and other OECD education reports. Also included are the annual Education at a Glance and its related databases which give an up-to-date selection of comparative education statistics and indicators from OECD and non-OECD countries and provide information on the human and financial resources invested in education, on access to, progression and completion of education, on how education and learning systems operate, and on the returns on educational investments. The journal Higher Education Management and Policy is also included in the theme.

SourceOECD Education books and Education at a Glance can both be accessed via MetaLib.

Higher Education Management and Policy can be accessed via the Find e-Journal list or the Library catalogue.

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ebrary Education e-books package

This package includes over 2,300 e-books covering all areas of educational studies including adult and continuing education, comparative educational methods, educational administration and leadership, and educational policy and reform. The Library also subscribes to the ebrary Social & Behavioural Sciences Collection which gives access to thousands of e-books across a broad range of academic and general interest subject areas.

All individual ebrary titles can be accessed via the Library catalogue. To search specifically for e-books select Search by Format or Library.

ebrary can also be accessed via MetaLib.