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Beginning on and after October 1, 2018, searching with diacritics will be enabled for all EBSCO Products. With the release of this enhancement, a user will be able to use the appropriate diacritic mark for the specific words in their native language, allowing more precision in search results.
A diacritic is a mark that indicates pronunciation of a word. Sometimes a diacritic indicates a different word in the same language. Examples include:
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ProQuest scheduled downtime
Books on ProQuest platforms including Ebook Central will be unavailable beginning Saturday August 18th at 12:00pm for up to five hours
All other ProQuest products including databases, reference management tools and bibliographic tools will be unavailable beginning Saturday August 18th at 10:00pm for up to eight hours
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Cuartel General del Sur, 1910-1925
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Bosnia and the Situation in the Former Yugoslavia
Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Reunification of Germany
The Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid
The papers of Joseph Chamberlain
The papers of Neville Chamberlain
The papers of Sir Austen Chamberlain
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Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Cambodia | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Egypt | Greece | Albania | Hungary | Iran | Iraq | Laos | Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jordan | Libya | Morocco | Nicaragua | Panama | Peru | Poland | Romania | Saudi Arabia | Turkey, Greece, and the Balkan States | Turkey | Venezuela
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Clarivate has released the 2018 version of JCR. One key change is the contribution of the Book Citation Index to the metrics, which has the ability to make significant changes to rankings in the social sciences and humanities.
Syria Lebanon | Africa | China | India | Iran | Japan | Korea | Latin America | Philippines | Thailand
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The MyiLibrary ebook platform has been retired. All books that were previously available on the MyiLibrary platform are now available via Ebook Central. Redirects are in place and we have confirmed that access is working, but if you are linking directly to MyiLibrary books in libguides or through other materials, you are encouraged to update your links to point to Ebook Central.
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce that the archive of PsycCRITIQUES is now fully available as an Open Access resource on the Scholars Portal Journals platform.
PsycCRITIQUES was a database of psychology related books and films maintained by the American Psychological Association. It began publication as Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews in 1956 and transitioned to the online PsycCRITIQUES database in 2004. The database was discontinued in December 2017.
You can browse or search PsycCRITIQUES on the Scholars Portal Journals platform: https://journals.scholarsportal.info/browse/15540138
PsycCRITIQUES content is available in popular knowledgebases and can be integrated into your institutional discovery layer.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Journals team: journals@scholarsportal.info
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This curated collection, developed in developed in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President, Research & Innovation, assembles policy-related research reports produced by University of Toronto units. It is a collection of grey literature which aims to improve discoverability of U of T contributions in a diversity of areas including local, provincial, national, and global public policy matters that are important for the understanding of developing issues. Authors and/or co-authors are faculty members, fellows, students or staff who were at U of T at the time of publication. The collection excludes externally commissioned reports and studies published in scholarly journals or books.
It is housed in TSpace, a free and secure research repository established by the University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the University of Toronto. U of T researchers often produce reports that make an important contribution to understanding and providing solutions to emerging issues in society. However, because many of these reports are not published through traditional means they can be difficult to find for others through conventional methods. Reports included in the U of T Policy Reports Collection will be more easily accessible as part of TSpace, which enables:
This is a living collection and we encourage members of the U of T community who have authored or are aware of relevant reports to consider having them included in this collection. No special authorization beyond a UTORid is required to upload your report(s). Once uploaded, reports will be reviewed by the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation for consistency with the collection style before being made public. Please see the Policy Reports Collection Upload Instructions for Authors for collection specific instructions. The Policy Reports Collection FAQs contains more information about the Collection.
N.B. The catalogue record will be updated to reflect this, but the collection now has expanded access has well as new content. The collection is available on and off campus, there is no need to create an account and no need for local caching to view content. The collection now works like other streaming video collections.
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East India Company Module II, Factory Records for South Asia and Southeast Asia: The second of a three-part collection of India Office Records from the British Library, this module focuses on trade networks, daily life for those living and working in the British Empire, and the interaction between Western traders and Asian societies, through correspondence, diaries, and company records. Of interest to researchers of British Imperial history, maritime trade, and global commerce.
Foreign Office Files for Japan Module II: The second part of a three-part collection of British Foreign Office Files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. This section focuses on the American post-war occupation of Japan from 1946-1952. Of interest to researchers of Japanese culture and society, trade and the pacific rim, and American-Japanese relations.
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Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
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The new modules include about 3,500 items from major libraries in Britain, Italy, Holland, Denmark and a large collection from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Of interest to students and researchers in religious studies, medieval history, women and gender studies, book history and print culture.
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Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
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AccessPharmacy:
The library now subscribes to the AccessPharmacy collection. The collection includes books on anatomy, biochemistry and organic chemistry, as well as valuable pharmacy resources like DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy; Goodman & Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics; Pharmaceutical Care Practice; Casarett and Doull’s Toxicology; and Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Of interest to students and researchers in pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and other health disciplines.
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(This week’s list includes a couple of less-recent acquisitions to which the metadata team has recently improved access.)
Witchcraft in Europe and America
A collection of documents on witchcraft covering the 15th century to the early 20th century, with the majority of materials concerning the period from the 16th to 18th centuries. The collection includes eyewitness accounts, church and court records, anti-persecution writings, philosophical writings and more. The majority of texts are in Latin, English and German with selected texts in French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch and Spanish. Of interest to researchers of theology, law, and social history.
English Poetry 2nd Edition
A collection of 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th. The second edition expands on the first with the addition of 20,000 works and expands coverage of poets from Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Individual volumes of poetry are catalogued and can be retrieved through Onesearch, or users can browse the full collection.
Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
All resources currently live on sites that are about 10 years old. Updates will include responsive design and improved search capabilities.
November 28, 2017
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World’s Fairs: A Global History of Expositions http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11472262
The collection includes a broad range of material from government records, correspondence of fair committees, plans and design concepts and fair ephemera. Coverage is from the London 1851 fair to Montreal’s Expo 1967. Of interest to researchers of cultural history, globalization, imperialism, anthropology and mass communication.
N.B. Depending on browser settings, users may be asked to login after clicking through the catalogue link. We are working with AMD to resolve this issue but the resource can be accessed here: http://www.worldsfairs.amdigital.co.uk.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Migration to New Worlds (Module II) http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11457985
The library has acquired the second module in the “Migration to New Worlds” collection. Module II focuses on the modern era, beginning in 1840 and includes organization papers, government correspondence and pamphlets encouraging immigration to Australia, New Zealand and Canada; oral histories and other personal accounts with a focus on the colonization of New Zealand and the United States. Of interest to researchers of migration studies, history.
N.B. Depending on browser settings, users may be asked to login after clicking through the catalogue link. We are working with AMD to resolve this issue but the resource can be accessed here: http://www.migration.amdigital.co.uk.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Geoscience World platform migration
Journals from Geoscience World have moved to a new platform as of November 20. Redirects are in place but if you are linking to Geoscience World from libguides or other locations, please update your URLs.
Changes coming to Oxford Resources as of November 27th
American National Biography Online http://go.utlib.ca/cat/6428111 and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8021695 are updating their interfaces. Both of these products ran on OUP sub-sites that were about 15 years old. The updates will have modern, responsive websites and improved search capability. The links to the resources themselves won’t change but there will be changes at the article level. While redirects will be in place, it is recommended that any links or bookmarks be updated.
November 20, 2017
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Changes come to Duke platform as of November 20th
Duke University press journals and books content in the humanities and social sciences will move to a new platform on November 20th. Mathematics content on the Project Euclid platform is not affected. Redirects are in place so access should not be affected but if you are linking to the content or platform anywhere, you should update your links, just as good practice.
UNLIKE MOST VENDORS, DUKE WILL NOT BE RUNNING BOTH PLATFORMS AT ONCE AND IS PLANNING A COMPLETE MIGRATION NOVEMBER 20TH. AS SUCH, THERE MAY BE A SHORT ACCESS INTERRUPTION ON MIGRATION DAY.
The library has acquired a new collection from Adam Matthew Digital:
AMD Medical Services and Warfare: A collection of digitized hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts that documents how war shaped medical practice from 1850-1927. The material mostly focuses on Crimean War, American Civil War and First World War but includes content on other major conflicts falling within the date ranges. Adam Matthew Digital has identified this collection as one that will soon feature Handwritten Text Recognition. Of interest to researchers of medical history, women’s history, and public health. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11454315
November 13, 2017
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The library has added the following modules from Archives UnBound:
Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945-1954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1: 1945-1949
Comprising records of the U.S. State Department’s Central Classified Files, this collection contains records relating to the internal affairs of Indochina, during the period 1945-49. The records include instructions sent to and correspondence received by the State Department; the State Department’s internal documentation, as well as correspondence between the Department and other federal departments and agencies, Congress, and private individuals and organizations; telegrams, airgrams, instructions, inquiries, studies, memoranda, situation reports, translations, special reports, plans, and official and unofficial correspondence. Of interest to researchers of political science and international relations, East Asian studies, American studies. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11181941
International Women's Movement: The Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women’s Association of the USA, 1950-1985
Comprising records from the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association. The PPSEAWA was founded in 1930 to strengthen international understanding and friendship among the women of Asia and the Pacific and women of the U.S.A. The group promoted cooperation among women of these regions for the study and improvement of social, economic, and cultural conditions; engaged in studies on Asian and Pacific affairs; provided hospitality to temporary residents and visitors from Pacific and Asian areas; and presented programs of educational and social interest, dealing with the customs and cultures of Asian and Pacific countries. Of interest to researchers of women and gender studies, social history, political science and East Asian studies. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157875
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November 3, 2017
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The library has added a new module to the Digital National Security Archive:
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
The documents in this collection examine the relationship between the United States and Japan, spanning the years from Kennedy to Clinton. Documents include declassified material from the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the White House. Of interest to researchers of International Relations, Japan Studies, or U.S. Policy studies. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10433055
Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports:
An archive of the Economist’s Country Reports from 1952 – 1995. Each report contains detailed statistics alongside commentary and forecasting from the EIU’s analysts. Of interest to researchers of economics, labour, area studies, and geography. Reports can be accessed by searching by country name in the catalogue. Eg. Greece: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9997556, Indonesia: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9997559
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October 31, 2017
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The library has acquired the following resources:
Vogue, Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar Perpetual Access License – A searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of every issue of Harper’s Bazaar from 1867 to the present. Of interest to researchers of cultural history, marketing and gender studies - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7713134
The Vogue Archives makes the entire run of the US edition of Vogue Magazine, 1892-present, available. New issues are made available with no embargo giving users access to more than 400,000 pages including all images, articles, and advertisements. This primary source may be of interest to researchers of gender and modern social history. - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7763354
Vogue Italia – The Vogue Italia Archive makes the entire run, 1964- present, of the Italian version of Vogue available. Users can see original magazine issues and can utilize Proquest search to find relevant issues and images. Of interest to researchers of art, architecture, advertising and history. - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11255797
Updated Resources:
Adam Matthew Digital Releases Handwritten Text Recognition
The primary source publisher is rolling out the use of artificial intelligence to offer search capabilities within handwritten materials in its manuscript collections. The system determines possible combinations of characters in manuscripts and enables relevant handwritten text to be identified at the document level, allowing users to navigate between highlighted search results. This technology is currently available in the Colonial America Module III collection and plans to add the feature to Medical Services and Warfare, East India Company and Mass Observation Online.
http://www.colonialamerica.amdigital.co.uk.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Changes to Taylor and Francis ebooks as of November 1st
CRC Press books, previously on CRC Netbase will now share a new platform with T&F books. The platform should improve the reading experience by offering tables of contents on book title pages to make it easier to navigate directly to a book’s section. Copying and pasting is made easier and users can download full titles for offline use.
Training opportunity:
The Economist Intelligence Unit
EIU is holidng a brief (30 minute) overview of products and services on October 31st at 10:00 am EST. They will cover new features and best practices for EIU.com, Viewswire, and Data Tool including recent product enhancements. Interested parties can register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4280527796032219651
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October 23, 2017
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House of Lords Parliamentary Papers 1800-1910 – The UK parliamentary papers database has been expanded to include the papers from the House of Lords from the National Library of Scotland. The collection and this module will be of interest to researchers of British history, British government, and political science - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11184212
ProQuest Congressional Collection – Primary source collection of original testimony with supporting correspondence, articles, and memos. Includes unpublished hearings and the ability to track testimony by witness affiliation over time. The Congressional Collection also includes bills and resolutions, house and senate documents, executive orders and presidential proclamations. Of interest to researchers of American history, political science, social science and law. - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9324197
AMD - Trade Catalogues and the American Home - With content from 1850-1950, this resource presents highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends. The collection includes catalogues of major department stores, historic documents relating to popular brands and more. Of interest to scholars of material culture, social history and the history of business and marketing. - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11333451
October 10, 2017
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The Libraries have acquired digital collections from Adam Matthew and ProQuest:
Literary Print Culture : the Stationers' Company Archive, 1554-2007 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11405935
Sourced from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, located at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, this resource allows access to a vast and unique collection of primary source documents. The collection is widely regarded as one of the most important primary sources for studying the history of the book as well as publishing history, the history of copyright and the workings of an early London Livery Company. The collection includes the Entry Book of Copies, which were used to establish copyright belonging to publishers, booksellers and eventually authors until the introduction of automatic copyright n 1912. After the passing of the Statute of Anne in 1710, the registers became the official record of copyright and legal deposit.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (HNP):
September 19, 2017
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The Chicago Manual of Style Online - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11331900
The 17th edition of the CMOS is now available. This updated edition has been prepared “with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf.” It features:
· updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats
· tools for PDF annotation and citation management
· web accessibility standards
· support for the “needs of those who are self-publishing or following open access or Creative Commons publishing models”
· citation standards that “reflect the ever-expanding universe of electronic sources—including social media posts and comments, private messages, and app content—and also offer updated guidelines on such issues as DOIs, time stamps, and e-book locators”
The Digital Loeb Classical Library (an imprint of Harvard University Press) is a digitized version of the long-running (since 1911) series of Greek, Latin and English editions of classical texts. Loeb editions are known for placing Greek or Latin on one side of the page, side by side with an accessible English translation on the other, and the digital versions maintain this formatting convention. Loeb’s entire list of Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented , with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Item-level collection records will be available soon. See an interesting write-up of the collection here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/loeb-classical-library-virtually/#!
Foreign Office Files for Japan, Section I: 1931-1945
Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945, is the first part of a three-part collection of British Foreign Office Files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. Provides full-text searchable access to formerly restricted top level discussions and correspondence from the British Embassy and consulate in Japan. Includes memoranda, reports, minute sheets and correspondence, along with detailed assessments of key events, speeches and topics of special interest.
17th & 18th Century NICHOLS Collection of UK Newspapers
The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 are presented in digitized format. This collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into 17th-18th century England. The collection includes approximately 300 primary titles of newspapers and periodicals and 300 pamphlets and broadsheets.
Women's Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities
The first collection in Gale’s Women’s Studies archive. Women’s Issues and Identities focuses the path of women’s issues from past to present - pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, organizational records, and more. Global in scope, the archive presents materials covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Within the archive can be found fascinating historical records from Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, East Asia, and the Pacific Rim with content in English, French, German, and Dutch. A highlight of the archive, the European Women’s Periodicals collection, features periodicals from women's groups against German National Socialism, from continental European suffragists, from birth-control propagandists, from housewives' associations, and from educational reformers.
August 31, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
The Libraries have acquired electronic access to the New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Reference Edition, via Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.
The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. The Critical Reference Edition is created to facilitate scholarly research, with a particular emphasis on book history and the documentary origins of each text. It collects the same versions of the same works found in the Modern Critical Edition, keyed to the same line-numbering - whilst preserving the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, and ambiguities of the early documents. Introductions focus on early modern manuscript and print culture, setting each text within the material circumstances of its production, transmission, and early reception.
Volume 1 (works published in Shakespeare’s lifetime): http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11314077
Volume 2 (works published posthumously): http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11314078
Authorship Companion (essays on questions of authorship and chronology across the Shakespearean canon): http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11153796
The Libraries have also acquired the following collections and databases from ProQuest:
Historical Statistical Abstracts of the US - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11255776
Published from 1878 to 2012 by the U.S. Federal government, compiling data on economic trends, social climate and the demographic makeup of the United States. In the spring of 2011, the Census Bureau announced that the edition that year would be the last one produced at government expense. Despite protests from librarians and journalists and despite petitions to Congress, the Census Bureau unit that published the Statistical Abstract was eliminated. Its elimination resulted not from a decline in the popularity or perceived value of statistical compilations, but from the need to reduce agency spending while supporting new and existing data collection efforts. ProQuest has now taken on responsibility for updating and releasing this publication, the “most used statistical reference tool in U.S. libraries.” In print, the Statistical Abstract of the United States was a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browseable.
ProQuest History Vault - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11233696
A database of archival materials including digitized letters, papers, photographs, financial records and more, taken from the collections of University Publications of America. Users can search across all collections or within subject collections. Subject collections include:
• Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle – records of the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE and federal records on the black freedom struggle.
• Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War – petitions concerning race and slavery, Southern plantation records and Civil War records
• American Indians and the American west – records on American Indians and the American West from the 19th and 20th centuries
• American Politics and Society – Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administration records as well as Thomas Edison papers and immigration records
• International Relations – formerly confidential reports of U.S. diplomats and military officers from 1911-1975
• Women’s Studies – Collections from the Schlesinger Library and records of National Woman’s Party, Woman Action Alliance
• Workers and Labor Unions – Collections on American workers in the 20th century with a focus on the interaction between the U.S. federal government and American workers.
August 4, 2017
The Libraries have acquired two digital collections from Adam Matthew and Alexander Street Press:
Socialism on Film: the Cold War and International Propaganda
Socialism on Film is a collection of documentaries, newsreels and features films by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British, and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s. Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI) archives, this project makes available the superb ETV-Plato Films collection put together by the British communist Stanley Forman in the years after the Second World War. This is a collection of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and then versioned into English for distribution in the West. All the films in this collection have been digitized from the original 16mm and 35mm film reels. Module I of the collection, Wars & Propaganda, is now available; modules II & III, Newsreels & Cinemagazines and Culture & Society, will be published in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Australasian Video Online is an online streaming database of documentary and educational videos from many of Australasia's top video publishers. The collection brings together the region's most-studied and respected films and includes key video published from the mid-20th century to present day. Films highlight regional perspectives on anthropology, environmental studies, business, economics, health, media studies, the arts, and other important disciplines. Films come from Australasia's most trusted content partners, including the National Film and Sound Archive's Film Australia Collection, SBS Television, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilms, and Electric Pictures. Also includes detailed teaching guides produced by The Australian Teachers of Media Association. Content is specifically designed for integration into today's undergraduate curriculum. Each item in the collection has a record in the catalog; the collection consists of 772 videos.
* Notice of coming update this Fall - The Chicago Manual of Style
The 17th edition of the CMOS is being published in September. The 17th edition will include new sections on writing and citing with new media in mind, including writing exclusively for electronic publication, as well as citing social media posts, texts, and websites. It will also add recommendations on gender neutrality in writing and citations. We will continue to have access via CMOS Online to the 16th edition (now seven years old), but access to the 15th edition will be discontinued. See here for a more detailed list of changes in the 17th edition that have already been announced.
July 25, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
The Libraries have acquired the following digital collections from ProQuest:
African American Biographical Database (AABD) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5032954
A collection of African American history which brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other online reference source. The biographical sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries, yearbooks, directories, histories, personal accounts and other published sources including the full text of almost 300 rare books. The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, church and missionary leaders, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person – living and working in the United States from 1790 to 1950. The content reproduces, in digital format, the acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 created by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
American Periodicals Series Online - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8338345
A database containing periodicals published between 1740 and 1940 including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Notable sub-collections are comprised of colonial and revolutionary-period publications, as well as of periodicals published during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The resource includes full colour scans of original documents. Of interest to researchers of history, literature, law, politics and gender studies. The collection was produced from the archives of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
Country Life Archive - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11233793
A full archive (1897 – 2005) of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine Country Life that chronicled affairs of interest to the United Kingdom’s upper classes, focusing on art and architecture, country houses, and rural living. Of interest to researchers of 20th century British history, art, architecture, and landscape design. The magazine serves as an important record of the changing ownership of the United Kingdom’s great houses, sometimes serving as the only source for restoration of early 20th-century structures. With significant coverage of not only art and art history, but also pursuits relevant to its audience, such as equestrian news, landscaping, hunting, and shooting. The publication was image-rich, and the archive provides historical records of buildings’ interior designs – often the only surviving records. Every page is fully searchable, and reproduced in full colour and high resolution.
The Libraries have also acquired the following digital collections from Adam Matthew:
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11204849
Exploring complete runs of Foreign Office files, this collection reveals the UK’s exhaustive interest in the Middle East during the 1970s. Withdrawing from the Gulf in 1971, the UK maintained a vested interest in the oil affairs of states such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as a continued presence in conflicts in Oman and Yemen. The newly acquired Module 3 is predominantly focused on conflicts in Iran, with extensive coverage of events surrounding the revolution, the hostage crisis at the United States Embassy, and the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War. The full collection contains complete runs of Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from the Arabian and Middle East Department (FCO 8), the Southern European Department (FCO 9), the Eastern Department (FCO 17), the North and East African Department (FCO 39), the Commodities and Oil Department (FCO 67) and the Near East and North Africa Department (FCO 93) that are relevant to the time period, and is augmented by selections from the Prime Minister’s Office files (PREM) and Defence Intelligence files (DEFE).
East India Company: Module I: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11211088
This digital collection consists of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, the resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1600 to 1947. Module 2: Factory Records and Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East will be released in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Race Relations in America – http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11214046
Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. The collection includes over 100 hours of audio recordings, photographs, scrapbooks, and case studies. The collection also includes a number of secondary features such as maps, a data association tool, an interactive chronology, and video interviews with scholars who are specialists in the history of the Department.
July 11, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
The Libraries have added more digital collections from Gale and Alexander Street Press:
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10817894
Based on A.G. Ellis’s catalogue of the British Library’s collection, Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library includes examples from over 400 years of books printed in Arabic script as well as translations into European and Asian languages from the period. Scholars can search on the full text of items in Arabic, English, French, German, Latin, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish while also being able to discover content in Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Syriac, and seventeen other languages. Full-text searching capabilities created with newly developed optical character recognition software (OCR) for early Arabic printed script ensures that scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and those engaged in Arabic studies across the world can equally cross-search Arabic-language materials and research this extensive range of texts. Features a complete and selectable Arabic interface with right-to-left text and navigation. Over 4,000 item-level MARC records for texts within this collection have been loaded to the catalogue. Full-text items can be downloaded as PDFs.
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11248687
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive presents more than a thousand hours of both edited and original (unedited) footage from Banyan Productions, the first Caribbean enterprise to produce original TV content. Founded in 1974 in Trinidad & Tobago, Banyan Productions produced innovative and entertaining programmes – including documentary, performance, current events, public information, music, and dance – for and about the Caribbean people and culture. Includes extensive interviews with cultural personalities and indigenous peoples, including edited and raw footage of interviews with important Caribbean artists, musicians, and writers such as Derek Walcott, C.L.R. James, Errol Jones, Pat Castagne, Jackie Hinkson, Slade Hopkinson, and many others.
Food Studies Online – http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11250573
Food Studies Online is a multi-format online resource that includes archival content, visual ephemera (e.g. advertisements), text, and video covering the topic of food from social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political perspectives. Examples of topics covered in the collection: Organic Farming/Small Farms, School lunch programs, Childhood nutrition, Marketing and advertising, Packaging, Food industry, Environmental impact of GMOs, US food programs during WWI/WWII, Food security, Famine, Vegetarianism, Labor practices, Food safety, Wine making, Obesity, Gender roles through history, Food habits around the world, and more.
Anthropological Fieldwork Online - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11247726
Anthropological Fieldwork Online provides access to the fieldwork underpinning the great ethnographies of the early 20th century, including the original fieldwork of Bronislaw Malinowski, Victor and Edith Turner, Max Gluckman, Margaret Mead, Raymond Firth, and Ruth Fulton Benedict. Content is being digitized in partnership with archival holding institutions such as the London School of Economics, Vassar College, Yale University, and the Royal Anthropological Institute. Content is focused around each scholar’s prominent expedition field experience, with comprehensive inclusion of fieldwork, contextualizing documents from the same time period, including correspondence, and subsequent writings that led to major publications, such as draft manuscripts, lectures, and articles. Users will see the full qualitative scholarly process unfold in all of its iterations, from data gathering in the field to later analysis, early writings, and final publication.
Disability in the Modern World - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11249058
One person in seven experiences disability, yet the story of this community and its contributions is largely absent from the scholarly record. Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement is a landmark online collection that fills the gap, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. At completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video. The content is essential for teaching and research—not only in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11250984
This collection will bring together at completion over 1,200 hours of videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide, including nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, and documentary segments. Provides over 2500 online videos on the history of fashion, textiles, marketing and merchandising, clothing, and costume. Videos also include international fashion weeks, costume exhibits, awards, and interviews with designers, models and celebrities. Transcripts are included. Users can access sub-collections covering the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections.
June 20, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
The libraries have added three more digital collections from Gale:
Making of modern law : American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11063336
American Civil Liberties Union Papers consists of two major collections comprising myriad subseries. The Roger Baldwin Years, 1912-1950, contains subseries with clippings and files on academic freedom; censorship; legislation; federal departments and federal legislation; state activities; conscientious objectors; injunctions; and labor and labor organization correspondence. Years of Expansion, 1950-1990, encompasses foundation project files on the Amnesty Project, 1964-1980; the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, 1964-1976; and subject files on freedom of belief, expression, and association; due process of law; equality before the law; international civil liberties; and legal case files, 1933-1990. Content: Over 2 million images. Source Library: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University.
American Fiction 1774-1920 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11181957
American Fiction, 1774-1920 encompasses more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I, including thousands never before available online. This landmark digital collection is based on authoritative bibliographies including Lyle H. Wright’s American Fiction: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography, widely considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult prose fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Geoffrey D. Smith’s American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography, comprising nearly three-quarters of all adult fiction published in the United States during this time period. Over 18,000 MARC records for texts within this collections have been loaded to the catalogue (See example here: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11161266). Full-text items can be downloaded as PDFs or as OCR’d .txt files.
Associated Press Collections Online - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11188658
The Associated Press Collections Online brings together content from the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive. This collection is comprised of 6 sub-collections: the U.S. City Bureaus Collection, the Washington D.C. Bureau Collection, the Washington D.C. Bureau at the Library of Congress, the Middle East Bureaus Collection, the European Bureaus Collection, and AP News Features and Internal Communications. It contains decades worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, personal papers from reporters and photographers (including notebooks, personal letters, and photo outtakes), photos, and video footage.
June 13, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
A further update on digital collections added by UTL via Gale’s Archives Unbound platform (platform-level record here: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11166169).
Today’s AU update details digital collections relating to Asian American Studies, Asian History, LGBT Studies and Indigenous Studies:
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157868
This collection includes the extensive FBI documentation on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest. In addition, there is documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off. Informant reports and materials collected by the Extremist Intelligence Section of the FBI provide unparalleled insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism. Date Range: 1968-1979. Content: 14,195 images. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library.
Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157870
One of the darker chapters in American history and one of the lesser discussed events of World War II was the forced internment, during the war, of an important segment of the American population-persons of Japanese descent. This collection provides demographic information on the "evacuees" resident at the various relocation camps. The rosters within Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946 provide information necessary for research in Asian American and ethnic studies, American studies, military history, social history, World War II studies, political science, and national security studies. Date Range: 1944-1946. Content: 3,145 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Japanese-American relocation camp newspapers : perspectives on day-to-day life - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157876
This digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans. Although articles in these files frequently appear in Japanese, most of the papers are in English or in dual text. Many of the 25 titles constituting this collection are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted. Date Range: 1942-1945. Content: 24,838 images. Source Library: Library of Congress.
Personal justice denied : public hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157882
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was established by act of Congress in 1980. Between July and December 1981, the CWRIC held 20 days of public hearings in Seattle, WA; Alaska; Washington, D.C; New York, New York; Chicago, Ill Cambridge, MA; and, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. This publication consists of the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission’s inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees. Documents include publications, reports, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. related to the hearings. Date Range: 1981. Content: 4,670 images. Source Library: National Archives (U.S.)
In Response to the AIDS Crisis: Records of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1983-1994 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157873
Briefing books, hearing and meeting transcripts, reports, and press clippings document the activities of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (NCAIDS). NCAIDS was an independent body created in 1989 by federal statute with the mission to advise Congress and the President on the development of “a consistent national policy” concerning the HIV epidemic. The statute created the Commission for a period of up to four years, which expired on September 3, 1993. Of particular interest to researchers is the Commission's final report entitled AIDS: An Expanding Tragedy, which serves as a summary of the Commission's activities and includes a detailed chronology of its activities and provides an extensive list of all hearings, site visits, reports, and publications related to the Commission. Date Range: 1983-1994. Content: 37,091 pages. Source Library: History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.
June 6, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
UTL has added a group of U.K.-focused historical newspaper and periodical collections from Gale. Note: Users can search across or within these collections via Gale’s Primary Sources platform, which offers “term frequency” searching, Gale’s version of the Google Ngram viewer. Please see descriptions and links to collection-level records below:
Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11101763
The Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 is the complete, fully text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain from 1938-1957 that "defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century." The online archive includes almost 50,000 pages, all digitized from originals in full colour.
The Independent Newspaper Digital Archive, 1986-2016 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7716405
The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2016 is a digital collection that covers the full run of the newspaper from its very first issue until the end of 2016. Through an intuitive interface and multiple search paths, users can search, retrieve and browse every article, page and edition of the newspaper. The archive includes The Independent on Sunday (1990-onwards) and editions from 2005 are available in full colour.
The Listener Historical Archive - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9818771
The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. With major contributors including E. M. Forster, George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, it also provided an important platform for new writers and poets; W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin being notable examples. As well as expanding on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also discussed major literary and musical programmes. 10% of its content was not connected to broadcasting at all, and it regularly reviewed new books.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7701540
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world’s largest selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper’s backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
May 30, 2017
Posted on behalf of Graeme Slaght
The library has added a number of digital collections available via Gale’s Archives Unbound platform.
The platform itself now has a record in the catalogue, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11166169, and collection-level catalogue records have been created for a number of collections available via AU.
I’ll be sending out updates on these collections in thematic batches over the next few weeks. Today’s update details collections that consist mainly of primary source materials of significance to fields such as Holocaust Studies, Holocaust Education, Jewish Studies and World War Two Studies. Please see descriptions and links to collection-level records below:
U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11181943
This collection provides correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews. Date Range: 1940-1950. Content: 35,023 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons – http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157869
This collection consists of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II. Most of the collection consists of letters written or received by prisoners, but also includes receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects; paper currency; and realia, including Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear. Date Range: 1936-1945. Content: 5,747 images. Source Library: McMaster University.
German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157871
This collection comprises 170 German-language titles of books and pamphlets. The collection presents anti-Semitism as an issue in politics, economics, religion, and education. Most of the writings date from the 1920s and 1930s and many are directly connected with Nazi groups. The works are principally anti-Semitic, but include writings on other groups as well, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Jesuits, and the Freemasons. Also included are history, pseudo-history, and fiction. Date Range: 1909-1941 (bulk is 1932-1939). Content: 24,176 images. Source Library: Library of Congress.
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157874
This collection comprises, in its entirety, the Primary Source Media microfilm collection entitled Records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 1938-1947. Date Range: 1938-1947. Content: 30,100 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157877
This collection comprises documents from a wide variety of sources, including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, businesses, etc., pertaining to Jewish communities. These records are organized into various sub-collections, i.e., Archiv Schumacher, Streicher, Hans Frank, Hauptarchiv der NSDAP, Geschaedigte Juden, etc., and Ordner, or folders, and include newspaper clippings, letters, manuscripts, pamphlets, reports and other documents originating with the Sturmabteilung (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS), Gestapo, Reich Ministry of Justice, and Reichskulturkammer (RKK, Reich Chamber of Culture) from 1920- 1945. Date Range: 1891-1945 (bulk from 1933-1943). Content: 25,569 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection – http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157878
This collection consists of original documents collected by Diamant over a period of approximately 30 years dealing primarily with the Jewish segment of the French underground resistance; many of the documents originate with communist groups, and some deal with Polish groups. Most of the documents are in French, while some are in Yiddish. Date Range: 1939-1944. Content: 1,235 images. Source Library: McMaster University.
Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949 - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157879
Comprises two collections related to Holocaust Era Assets. The first includes Records Regarding Bank Investigations and Records Relating to Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, from the records of the Office of the Finance Division and Finance Advisor in the Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone(Germany) (OMGUS), during the period 1945-1949. The second comprises Records Regarding Intelligence and Financial Investigations, 1945-1949, from the Records of the Financial Intelligence Group, Office of the Finance Adviser. Date Range: 1945-1949. Content: 19,200 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Nazism in Poland: The Diary of Governor-General Hans Frank - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157880
This collection reproduces the Tagebuch or journal of Dr. Hans Frank (1900-1946), the Governor-General of German-occupied Poland from October 1939 until early 1945. Date Range: 1939-1945. Content: 10,182 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Nuremburg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157881
This collection consists of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia. The cards are generally in alphabetical order. Suffix names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women were added by law in 1936 to readily identify persons of Jewish descent. Date Range: 1935-1945. Content: 16,435 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157883
SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a project of the Foreign Economic Administration to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments. In order to coordinate research and intelligence-sharing regarding SAFEHAVEN-related topics, the War Crimes Branch received SAFEHAVEN reports from various agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as SAFEHAVEN-related military attaché reports, regarding the clandestine transfer of German assets outside of Germany that could be used to rebuild the German war machine or the Nazi party after the war, as well as art looting and other acts that elicited the interest of Allied intelligence agencies during the war. Another aspect of the SAFEHAVEN project was the restoration of looted art treasures to their rightful owners. Date Range: 1944-1945. Content: 8,853 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes – http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11157872
This collection provides unique documents on the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel. Documents include: correspondence; trial records and transcripts; investigatory material, such as interrogation reports and trial exhibits; clemency petitions and reviews; photographs of atrocities; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets. Many concentration (and later extermination) camps and sub-camps are represented in this collection, including Mauthausen, Dachau, Belsen-Bergen, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Sobibor, sub-camp Gros-Raming, sub-camp Gusen I, sub-camp Ebensee, and others. Date Range: 1944-1949. Content: 27,781 images. Source Library: U.S. National Archives.
March 14, 2017
Some important changes to the resources below:
Cambridge Core – Cambridge Core is the platform hosting all of Cambridge’s book and journal content. Cambridge has made a change to their citation tool on the Cambridge Core platform. The new citation tool allows users to export a citation for an article, book or chapter from its respective landing page, any content listing or search result. The change is live on the Cambridge Core platform now though users may need to clear their cache as their browser may have cached the old version of the tool. If you find that a commonly used citation style is missing from the tool, let Cambridge know at academictechsupport@cambridge.org
Readex has made significant changes to the interfaces of American Historical Newspapers and the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports
Catalogue records for the sub-collections are coming soon. These sub-collections will be of particular interest to undergraduate students who are new to the use of primary source materials.
March 7, 2017
Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
The resources below are now available:
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online – The library has added the Latin Prose and Latin History Modules
The Latin Prose module comprises about 30 scholarly editions including works by Cicero, Pliny the Younger and Seneca. For all Latin modules on OSEO, users can read texts in the original language with a translation alongside, together with commentary notes and translations from the Oxford Latin Dictionary. The new Latin collections are of interest to students and researchers of Classics while the larger Oxford Scholarly Editions Online Collection is of interest to students and researchers of English Literature. A complete title list for the collection is available here: http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/page/18/title-lists . The collection is catalogued at the title level - here are a couple of samples to help familiarize you with the interface: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10964641, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10180772
Oxford Bibliographies Online – the library has added the African American Studies and Environmental Science modules. The O.B.O. collection is aimed at undergraduate students, it is meant to create a selective reading list on any given subject – to provide more detail than a Wikipedia entry but to be less overwhelming than a Google search. The African American Studies module provides bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite and annotate scholarship in key areas of African American Studies – culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics. The Environmental Science module covers environmental physics, chemistry, biology, risk analysis and public health and much more. A platform level record is available here http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8323832 and records for the new modules are forthcoming.
Recently renewed:
Chronicle of Higher Education: The library has recently renewed our subscription to this title and we want to ensure that faculty and staff know of its availability and their access to premium content. Thousands of academics read this title or subscribe to the Chronicle’s daily newsletter but often encounter paywalled content. Please ensure your faculty partners know that the library provides them with full access to the Chronicle’s content: http://www.chronicle.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Other resources:
eBook platforms and collections page: The library has recently updated the information we provide to users about eBook platforms and collections. If you are working to support users as they access eBooks, use this page to answer questions including whether a collection requires a special account or software, how to download books for offline use, and how much of a given title can be copied or downloaded. https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ebooks This page replaces the Introduction to eBooks libguide so make sure to update your links as that guide will no longer be updated.
February 21, 2017
Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
The resources below are now available:
Canadiana Héritage: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10889111
Héritage is an initiative to digitize Canadian archival fonds from the collections of Library and Archives Canada. Collections will be added on an ongoing basis over a 10 year period. The vendor recently released an updated interface and enhanced metadata (transcription of either finding aids or select reels) to allow keyword searching at the document level for approximately 1.5 million pages of content. Key collections for which enhanced metadata has been created include: homestead grant registers, naturalization certificates from Upper and Lower Canada, Parish registers from Nova Scotia, Manitoba and New Brunswick, Upper Canada land books, and Upper Canada Sundries. Of interest to researchers of Canadian history, Indigenous studies, and military history.
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10654963
A 3500-page, six-volume set providing a comprehensive overview of research, developments and practical applications throughout all areas of clean energy systems, this resource consolidates information which is currently scattered across a wide variety of literature sources. Of interest to researchers and students of energy across engineering, chemistry, physics, materials science, environmental science and geology.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10639842
A six-volume set with 2300 entries is based on the monumental Dictionary of Art from the late 1990s, covering Western medieval art and architecture from the 6th-16th century. The collection includes 600+ illustrations and each article is followed by a bibliography to support further research.
Updated e-resource:
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7912003
This resource offers a library of scanned Tibetan literature in Tibetan languages, especially Buddhist works. The library has added collection 13 from the “Core text collections” to our holdings and updated the catalogue record to make the resource more easily discoverable.
February 14, 2017
Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
At the end of December, the library purchased a license to the database Secret Files from the World Wars to the Cold War. Users can access the resource here: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10723572
The database contains British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 – 1953. Source files are from the National Archives and have been digitized by Taylor and Francis. The resource contains thousands of pages of primary source documents which have been fully transcribed so that they are keyword searchable. Users can download individual documents or image ranges.
If you are sharing the resource with faculty or students you can recommend help videos: http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com/Resources/Help-Videos or a page with full descriptions of the nine series if users would prefer an overview of the contents before beginning a keyword search: http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com/Overview/Series-Descriptions.
Additionally, the resources below are now available:
Proquest Indian Claims Insight: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10797540
The resource includes primary source documents that support U.S. Indian claims from 1789-present as well as State/Territory& Nation and Tribe histories. Of interest to researchers of American History, Law, and Indigenous Studies. Support resources include a libguide with detailed search strategies for the database and help searching for Indian claims more generally.
Adam Matthew Digital: Frontier Life: borderlands, settlement & colonial encounters: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10659968
The primary source documents in this database help to understand existence and consequences on the various frontiers that arose from the movements of Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America. Canadian content includes documents relating to the construction of the Alberta railway. Of interest to researchers of Canadian and American history.
Updated e-resources:
IBISworld: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9158671
The IBISworld subscription now includes US Specialized industry reports. It includes online retail data reports and smaller niche and emerging industries including advisory and financial services, business franchises, consumer goods and services, industrial machinery, gas and chemicals, life sciences, online retail, retail market, specialist engineering, infrastructure and contractors, and technology.
February 7, 2017
Posted on behalf of Eva Jurczyk
The resources below were listed as forthcoming in an announcement last year but access has now been enabled and catalogue records created:
New collections:
Queen Victoria’s Journals - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10650719
High-resolution colour images of every page in the entire sequence of Queen Victoria’s diaries, with full transcriptions and keyword searching of all journal entries, digitized by the Bodleian Libraries and the Royal Archives. Of interest to researchers of nineteenth century British political and social history and those working on gender and autobiographical writing.
Colonial State Papers - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10709259
Primary source documents from the 16th to 18th centuries relating to the earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in slaves and English conflicts with the Spanish and French. Of interest to researchers of early Canadian and American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, Atlantic trade and North American indigenous peoples.
Women’s Wear Daily Archive - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10409865
A comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing. Of interest to researchers of retail, marketing, advertising, popular culture and gender studies.
Expanded content in existing collections:
Digital National Security Archive - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8338841
Contains declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events. Coverage has been expanded to include the following collections:
CIA Covert Operations 1: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
The Kissinger conversations, supplement II: A verbatim record of U.S. diplomacy, 1969-1977
U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity
United States and Two Koreas, Part II
All collections are searchable from the main DNSA access point.
Historic Newspapers:
Easily searchable cover-to-cover content from historic newspapers with full-page and article images in downloadable PDFs. Newly added titles are:
Boston Globe (1872-1985) -http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5034172
Christian Science Monitor (1908-2003) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5034177
LA Sentinel (1934-2005) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7373937
New York Tribune (1841-1962) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10409500
St. Louis Post Dispatch (1874-1922) - http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10582332
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