We have recently purchased Early European Books Collections 1 -3 from ProQuest.

Early European Books provides scholars with access to the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together an array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.

Collection 1 offers a survey of the Royal Library’s holdings of items listed in Lauritz Nielsen’s Dansk Bibliografi 1482–1600 and its supplement (1919–1996). The Royal Library’s Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are included, from the earliest works printed in Denmark – Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) and Guillaume Caoursin’s De obsidione et bello Rhodiano (‘On the siege and war of Rhodes’), both printed by Johann Snell in Odense in 1482 (Lauritz Nielsen 29 and 39 respectively) – through to works by the astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) issued from his private press at Uranienborg, on the island of Hven, before 1597. Other works of Tycho in this collection include his De nova et nullius ævi memoria prius visa stella (‘On the new and never previously seen star’), published in Copenhagen in 1573 (Lauritz Nielsen 429).

Collection 2 contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections: The Nencini Aldine Collection, Marginalia, Incunabula, and Sacred Representations.

Collection 3 contains 3 million pages in total, from more than 10,000 volumes scanned at four different libraries. It encompasses works in major European languages, printed in the cities which led the explosion of the print industry in the early modern era, such as Nuremberg, Basel, Leiden, Paris and Venice. The collection contains the founding works of modern sciences such as botany, anatomy and astrology, together with accounts of travel, exploration and warfare, and influential works of literature, philosophy and humanist thought. In the field of religion, users will find editions of the works of the Church Fathers, early Bible editions in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and vernacular translations, missals, psalters and breviaries, Protestant sermons and tracts, and Counter-Reformation publications of the Catholic Church.

For more information about this resource take a look at the following demo: http://eeb.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/info/demo.do

We recently acquired Springer Protocols, an electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.

Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals, SpringerProtocols offers researchers access to  step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab.

Please see the following video for more information on Springer Protocols. http://springerdemos.com/index.html?module=Protocols

We have added some new products from Adam Matthew to our Online Collections.

Mass Observation III

The latest addition to Mass Observation Online will further supplement coverage of the war-years and for the first time includes personal writing material from the post-war years.

The new content provides research opportunities from an age of post-war austerity and the rise of consumerism and the welfare state:

• demobilisation
• health and the NHS
• reconstruction
• industry
• sport
• holidays and leisure

Foreign Office Files for CHINA (1919-1929)

The three parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1948:

• 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
• 1930-1937: The Long March, Civil War in China and the Manchurian Crisis
• 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and the Seeds of Communist Victory [due in 2014]

PLEASE NOTE: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest is now known as Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975