With this issue of the newsletter, we'd like to highlight some important electronic products that we've acquired recently. Take a moment to browse through some of the detailed descriptions below – as well as the links to numerous other tools that may be of interest. A link at the end of this article will direct you to electronic resources that we’ve profiled in the previous newsletter.
We continue to add to our image database offerings (see our profile of Corbis Education below) with a key new resource: ARTStor.
ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
This resource is made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. If you’d like to find out more about ARTStor, contact our Visual Arts Subject Librarian, Mary Kandiuk: mkandiuk@yorku.ca.
This compilation contains more than 400,000 images from Corbis' vast image collections, including more than 200,000 images from the renowned Bettmann Archive; 10,000 images from its Fine Art Collection; and tens of thousands of images from its nature, science, space and various commercial stock collections. The resulting archive covers a variety of image content, including paintings, sculpture and architecture, that spans history — including photography from the Civil Rights era and World War II.
Historical Newspaper Archives
A boon for researchers! We’ve offered the historical New York Times in electronic format for a number of years and now we are delighted to let you know that the London Times is available for searching as well.
Researchers can search this digitized version of the London Times archive (1785-1985) for a complete page of every issue of The Times ( London). Retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
British Parliamentary Papers
The19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) brings searchable full-text for Great Britain’s 19th century 79,527 parliamentary papers to your desktop. The complete index, plus full text for 1840-1859 (829,001 pages) is now available. A series of substantial full text releases will follow, completing the file by summer 2006.
Fulltext Journal Archives
We continue to augment our electronic journal holdings with some significant new additions, including:
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Culture and the Environment
Early English Books Online
Literature Online (LION)
North American Women’s Drama
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Questions?
For questions on these or other electronic resources, feel free to contact either your liaison librarian or Catherine Davidson (cdavids@yorku.ca), Associate University Librarian, Collections
