Please be advised that there will be a scheduled disruption to Scholars Portal services beginning Friday, Sept. 6 at 11pm. The disruption may last up to 24 hours. Access to RefWorks, some e-journal/e-book content and possibly ODESI and GeoPortal data will be affected.
The library is currently running a trial of the Grand Corpus des littératures françaises et francophones aka The Great Corpus of French and Francophone literature (click on Databases’ direct URL).
The Great Corpus of French and Francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century offers the 4 online corpus of literature published by Classiques Garnier Numérique:
- the Corpus of medieval literature from the origins to the end of the 15th century
- the Corpus of narrative literature, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
- the Corpus of Francophone literature from Black Africa, from the origins to Independence
- the Corpus of literature from the Indian Ocean, from the origins to Independence
The trial will run until the end of September. If you have any questions about the database you can contact ereport at yorku dot ca
We have recently added Oxford’s African American Studies Center to our online collections.
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles. The core content includes:
We have recently added Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 to our collections.
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection Series 1 presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture. This collection conveys the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics – shedding new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country’s history through contemporary times. The Latino-Hispanic American Experience focuses exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history in the United States.
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience collection draws its content from the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.” The project functions under the direction of Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press and includes publications from all regions of the nation.
We recently acquired the latest installment from ProQuest’s History Vault, Slavery and the Law
