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New Electronic Resources

New Electronic Resources

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

Previously known as the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, this database is a comprehensive guide to historical writing about the history of Britain, Ireland and the British overseas from 55BC to the present.

The bibliography contains around 460,000 records drawn from multiple sources including books, journals, review articles and articles within collections of essays. Subjects covered include:

  • Historiography and historical methods
  • Population and environment
  • Social history
  • Economic activity and organisation
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Military history
  • Foreign affairs
  • Intellectual cultural history

Users are able to search or browse by author, title, date of publication, subject ,place, person and period as well as being able to export details to EndNote and RefWorks.

Bibliography of British and Irish History can be accessed via Metalib  

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Electronic Journal backfiles

A significant investment has been made in the provision of online content for staff and students with the purchase of over 40 collections of journal backfiles across a range of subjects in the sciences and social sciences.

All the individual journal titles in the backfile collections mentioned below can be accessed via the Library's Find e-Journal list, which also includes details of current subscriptions to any of the titles.

Brill Journal Archive

  • More than 80 journals covering a range of subjects including biology, human rights, international law and the social sciences (title list).  This archive is provided free of charge by JISC Collections.

Institute of Physics

  • Journal archive covering the years 1999-2006.  This supplements the archive for 1874-1998 to which the University already has access.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

13 subject collections:

Springer

11 subject collections (full title list (MS Excel , 312kb) :

  • Behavioral Science
  • Biomedical & Life Sciences
  • Business & Economics supplement
  • Chemistry & Material Science
  • Computer Science
  • Earth & Environmental Science
  • Engineering
  • Humanities, Social Science & Law
  • Mathematics & Statistics
  • Medicine
  • Physics & Astronomy

Wiley Blackwell

14 subject collections:

Taylor & Francis

3 subject collections:

  • Computing, Engineering & Technology (title list)
  • Physics (title list)
  • Geography, Planning, Urban & Environment (title list).  This archive is provided free of charge by JISC Collections.

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American Newspaper Archives

The Library has purchased four more titles from the ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection, adding to the three purchased in 2008.  These titles are some of the most important primary sources for the study of American history, politics, society and culture and each issue of each title is available cover-to-cover with full-page and article facsimile images.

The new titles are:

  • Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
  • New York Times (1851-2006)
  • New York Tribune (1841-1922)
  • Washington Post (1877-1993)

These are added to the three titles purchased in 2008:

  • Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939)
  • Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
  • Chicago Defender (1905-1975)

All the archives can be accessed via MetaLib.

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The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men of the eighteenth century and the manuscript, visual and printed works presented in this important collection allow researchers to explore this phenomenon from every angle and give a fascinating and detailed insight into the English abroad c1550 to 1850.

The primary material includes:

  • Letters
  • Diaries and journals
  • Account books
  • Printed guidebooks
  • Published travel writing
  • Maps
  • Paintings, sketches, and architectural drawings

Secondary sources include:

  • Introductory essays interpreting and contextualising the materials.
  • The Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, by John Ingamells which includes over 6000 individual Grand Tourists with biographies and details of their tours.
  • A selection of digitised source material from the Brinsley Ford Archive at the Paul Mellon Centre, London which includes the notes, clippings and research gathered by Sir Brinsley Ford, from which Ingamells compiled the Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy.
  • An indexed collection of hundreds of modern photographs of Italy, providing a detailed visual source of all the historical sites, palaces and streets visited by tourists.

The materials in the Grand Tour are fully searchable and can also be browsed by country, region, city/town, featured place, people, and topics.

The Grand Tour can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library

Literary Manuscripts presents selected collections of the manuscripts of Victorian authors from the Berg Collection, one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and makes them available in their entirety as facsimile images.

The manuscripts made available include financial documents and personal items by or relating to the authors, literary drafts, and correspondence.  The authors represented include:

  • Matthew Arnold
  • The Brontes
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Robert Browning
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Charles Dickens
  • George Eliot
  • George Gissing
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Henry James
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • John Ruskin
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • William Makepeace Thackeray

The primary manuscript materials are accompanied by introductory essays, brief biographies of the authors, and chronologies of  historical and cultural events and events in the lives of the authors.  The collection is fully searchable and can also be browsed by author name.

Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts from the Berg Collection can be accessed via MetaLib.

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British Literary Manuscripts Online c. 1660-1900

This major new resource provides an insight into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years by giving access to complete facsimile copies of author manuscripts including poems, plays, and novels, private correspondence, diaries and journals, drawings and handwritten notes.
 
The collection includes more than 400,000 pages of manuscripts from authors such as William Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fanny Burney, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Charles Dickens, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Montagu, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Sir Walter Scott, Laurence Stern, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and Oscar Wilde.  The manuscripts are drawn from a number of major libraries and collections from around the world.

British Literary Manuscripts Online can be searched by full citation, author, title of major works, document type, year, source library, microfilm collection, and can be browsed by author.   Links are also included to related resources such as online palaeography tutorials, catalogues and bibliographies, maps and images.
 
British Literary Manuscripts can be accessed via Metalib.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: New Editions

Eighteenth Century Collections Online Part  2 (ECCO 2) adds 45,000 titles and 7 million pages of new works and editions to the original release of ECCO, to which the University has had access since 2006.  Together, ECCO parts 1 and 2 give access to over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and nearly 33 million pages published between 1701 and 1800.

The new material in ECCO 2 has been uncovered by the English Short Title Catalogue since 2003 and has been sourced and scanned from collections in the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge University, National Library of Scotland and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.  The emphasis is in the areas of literature, social science and religion. Women's writing is also well represented with more than 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors including such influential writers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Inchbald.   As with the original release, most titles are in English, but material is also included in French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian and Welsh.
 
The materials in ECCO 2 have been fully incorporated into the original collection on a new platform which increases the search options available, these include:

  • Basic and advanced searching by keyword, author, title, full text, main text, index, publisher, place of publication, front matter, back of book, document number and ESTC number.
  • Limiters by year of publication, by one or more subject areas or by languages including Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and French.
  • Browsing by author and title.
  • Cross searching of the materials in ECCO and Early English Books Online (EEBO).

Eighteenth Century Collections Online can be accessed via Metalib and individual items from the original release of ECCO can also be found via the Library catalogue.

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State Papers Online Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509 – 1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council

This major archive is an accompaniment to the State Papers Domestic, acquired by the Library in 2008, and includes 500,000 facsimile images of manuscript documents linked to fully searchable Calendar entries.  The collection reunites Foreign, Scotland, Borders and Ireland papers for the 16th century together with the Registers (‘Minutes’) of the Privy Council for the whole of the Tudor period.

Key themes include:

  • Mary, Queen of Scots: captivity, trial and execution
  • French wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots (1562-98)
  • 1541 Act raising Ireland into a Kingdom annexed to the Crown of England
  • Henry VIII’s ‘rough wooing’ of Scotland
  • England’s defeat of Philip II of Spain’s Grand Armada in 1588
  • Beginning of 80-year war between Spain and the Netherlands in 1566
  • Letters to and from the English agents in Scotland: the ambassadors Randolphe, Killigrew and the two Bowes, and the secretarial assistant Nicolson
  • Extents and valors of the possessions of dissolved religious houses in Ireland, and those attainted of high treason, including Gerald, Earl of Kildare (1540-1583)

Click here for a detailed description of the content.
 
The State Papers Online platform gives access to both the Foreign and Domestic collections and 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
  • Notepad/transcription pad which sits below the documents, this feature includes print, download, email  and formatting options, and special symbols

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

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Historical Periodicals Archives

JISC Collections has provided access, free of charge, to ProQuest’s British Periodicals Collection and a selection of titles from their Periodicals Archive Online collections.  Titles from the British Periodicals Collection can be cross-searched with those in Periodicals Archive Online providing simultaneous access to over 700 historical periodicals from one search.

British Periodicals Collection 1 & 2

British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of almost 500 periodicals published between the 1680s and the 1930s covering a wide range of subjects from across the arts, sciences and social sciences and a wide array of different types of periodicals from established and respected quarterlies to scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.

Periodicals Archive Online (JISC selection)

A collection of 80 full text journal backfiles for the arts, humanities and social sciences from the Periodicals Archive Online collections.  The University purchased Periodicals Archive Online collections 1 and 2 in 2005 but this new JISC selection adds 30 titles not already available.

The British Periodicals Collection and Periodicals Archive Online can both be accessed via MetaLib, and all the individual journal titles can also be accessed via the Library's Find e-Journal list.

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19th Century British Pamphlets

This selection of over 20,000 19th Century British Pamphlets provides online access to some of the most significant collections of this type of material held in UK research libraries, and gives a valuable insight into the key political, social, technological and environmental issues of the time.  The 19th Century British Pamphlets have been made available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme.  The digitisation process is ongoing and new collections and pamphlets are still being added.

The 19th Century British Pamphlets currently comprises of nine individual collections held in universities within the UK, many of which are whole collections that belonged to individual politicians or political families:

Cowen Tracts – Newcastle University
Personal collection of Joseph Cowen (1829-1900). A social reformer and Member of Parliament for Newcastle.

Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection – Durham University
Still owned by the family, the Greys were particularly interested in parliamentary reform, colonial affairs, and Catholic emancipation.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection – University of Manchester
This includes rare pamphlets relating to South America, Australasia and the Near East, and covering the various European political "questions" of the 19th century.

Hume Tracts – UCL
Personal collection of Joseph Hume (1777-1855), Radical member of Parliament.

Knowsley Pamphlet Collection – University of Liverpool
This collection reflects the political careers of the Earls of Derby, primarily Edward George, the 14th Earl and three–time Prime Minister, and his son, Edward Henry, the 15th Earl, who was Colonial Secretary and later Indian secretary in his father’s administration.

Selections – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
These selected pamphlets cover political party materials, including election manifestos and political cartoons. There are also collections from pressure groups such as the Fabian Society, Imperial Federation Defence Committee, Poor Law Reform Association, Workhouse Visiting Society, Liberal and Property Defence League, and from cooperative movements such as the Cooperative Women’s Guild.

Selections – University of Bristol
This selection includes pamphlets from the library of the National Liberal Club, along with those from other political parties.

Selections – University of Manchester
A selection over 450 pamphlets from the collections at the John Rylands University Library.

Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection – University of Manchester
A collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets from the collection of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield.

The 19th Century British Pamphlets can be accessed via JSTOR or a separate entry on MetaLib.

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Mass Observation Online Update

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 was purchased by the Library in December 2008 and is a companion to the Mass Observation Archive microfilm series also available in the Library, with the purchase of this update the collection is now over double its original size. 

Mass Observation Online gives access to:

  • File reports 1937–1972
  • Publications by Mass Observation between 1937 and 1950
  • 13 Topic Collections
  • Day Surveys 1937-1938
  • Diaries and Directives 1939-1942
  • Support materials (essays, maps, a bibliography, a chronology, and photographs)

The update has added the Diaries and Directives for 1941-42 and new topic collections covering: Film, Reading Habits, Dreams, Religion, Victory Celebrations, and Capital Punishment.

Mass Observation Online can be accessed via MetaLib.

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Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection

This collection gives access to more than 40 years of scientific information with over 800 high quality chemical science books published by the RSC since 1968.  A wide range of areas within chemistry are represented including:

  • Analytical
  • Applied and Industrial
  • Biomolecular
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Inorganic and Organic
  • Materials and Polymers
  • Nanoscience

The collection is fully searchable and can also be browsed by series, subject, year or title.

The Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection can be accessed via Metalib.  Individual titles can also be accessed via the Library catalogue.

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Caselex

Caselex gives access to the most important national and European case law linked to the EU's commercial areas of law, these include:

  • Company Law
  • Competition Law
  • Consumer Protection Law
  • Employment Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Freedom of Movement Law
  • ICT and Media Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Private International Law
  • Public Procurement Law
  • Social Security Law

For each selected case there is a case digest in English and the full text of the case in the native language.  National cases are archived from 1 January 2000, there is no date limit for the coverage of the European Court of Justice's case law.

Caselex can be access via MetaLib.  Off campus users please see How to Connect for details of how to set up access via the University web cache or VPN.

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Justis Publishing Law databases

Justis

Justis is a full text database of UK, Irish and EU case law and legislation, with case law dating back to 1163 and legislation as enacted dating back to 1235. Justis also gives access to the International Law Reports from 1919 onwards.

Justis is fully searchable with a Quick Search of all the content and specialist searches for Cases, Legislation, EU, and Articles.  Users can also browse the Justis documents index and contents.

JustCite

JustCite is an online legal citator which links to case law, legislation and articles from a number of publishers, and shows how they relate to each other.  It cross references an index of over 430,000 authoritative cases from 1.7 million documents going back to 1163. JustCite is fully integrated with the full text Justis database and links to other major UK law databases including Westlaw UK and Lexis Library.

Justis and JustCite can both be accessed via MetaLib.

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SourceOECD eBook Themes

Employment and Labour Markets

This theme gives access to all the OECD books published since 1998 in the areas of employment and labour markets.  It includes the annual OECD Employment Outlook and Labour Force Statistics and titles published throughout the year including those from series such as Jobs and Youth, Ageing and Employment and Babies and Bosses.

SourceOECD Employment and Labour Markets Books can be accessed via MetaLib, and titles are also included in the Library catalogue.

Social Issues/Migration/Health

This theme gives access to all OECD books published on social issues, migration, and health since 1998.  Approximately twenty new titles are published annually including such titles as Society at a Glance and Health at a Glance.

SourceOECD Social Issues/Migration/Health Books can be accessed via MetaLib, and titles are also included in the Library catalogue.

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Cambridge Companions Online: Literature and Classics

Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the book series published by Cambridge University Press, it is fully searchable and can be browsed by title, author or chapter.  The Literature and Classics collections give full text access to over 1,500 essays, the Literature collection covers major literary periods, authors and their works, and the Classics collection examines key aspects and periods of ancient Greece and Rome.

Cambridge Companions Online: Literature and Classics can be accessed via Metalib, and individual titles can be found in the Library catalogue.

The Library also subscribes to the Philosophy, Religion and Culture collection from Cambridge Companions Online.

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