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New Electronic Resources, October 2008
New Electronic Resources Blog
Some recent postings: All Disciplines
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Arts and Humanities
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.
Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Content in the first release includes 800 scores (approx. 25,000 pages) of in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series.
Érudit provides access to many types of documents in the humanities and social sciences and natural science disciplines: academic journals, e-books, proceedings, theses and other documents and data. Much of this content has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and/or by the Fonds Québecois de recherche sur la société et la culture. Currently it distributes 57 subscription journals, all of which are licensed by CRKN. Primarily published in French, there are a few bilingual and English titles.
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Intelex Past Masters offers 117 full-text humanities databases that offer a critical mass of primary source content. It makes available definitive editions of the complete corpora of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Much of the materials is licensed from Oxford University Press with significant collections from other major scholarly publishers including: Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, and Pickering & Chatto. Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO)
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970
Arab-Israeli Relations offers the widest range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1. Here major policy statements are set out in their fullest context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of colonial administration and, following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, British diplomacy towards Israel and the Arab states.
This digital resource contains documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library, London. It offers the unique resources of the World’s oldest Holocaust museum—Alfred Wiener fled Germany in 1933 and established his collection in London. The collection offers fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school textbooks, limited circulation publications and rare serials in a uniquely flexible format, enabling detailed research into the domestic policies of Nazi Germany, Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war, propaganda, life in the concentration camps, in hiding, emigration and refugee life. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 – 1996
Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages—from Arabic to Swahili— these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary. And many more, including:
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Allan Robb Fleming was Canada’s greatest graphic designer during the late 20th century. Thirty years after his death in 1977, his mark on Canadian society endures through symbols for Canadian National Railways, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Ontario Science Centre, and award-winning book designs. His correspondence, research files, photographs, and drawings were donated by his children to York in 2008, and are now available for research. This gift led to donations by other Canadian designers, and to discussions with Professors David Scadding and Brian Donnelly to establish the Canadian Design Archives at York University Libraries so that faculty and students can explore the social and economic impact of this profession. Special Collections News: Collaboration with faculty also played a key role in the acquisition of rare books from the library of Dr. Clarence B. Farrar (1874-1970), chief psychiatrist of the Canadian Army during World War I and Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital from 1925 to 1947. A long list of works on psychiatry, medicine and spiritualism was reviewed the Libraries’ subject specialists and by Professor Christopher Green and graduate student Jennifer Bazar of the Department of Psychology, which led to the addition of more than 60 volumes to Special Collections. |
