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AIDA (Articoli italiani di periodici accademici )
Through December 5, 2010, the Library will have access to a trial version of this Italian article index or database. Please note that UC-eLinks have not been enabled for the trial and you will only be able to view citations. Comments and suggestions should be sent to Claude Potts at cpotts[at]library.berkeley.edu. Click here for the complete list of titles indexed in AIDA. Here’s the publisher’s description:
The Bibliography Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA) contains more than 219,800 articles in the humanities from 1,388 Italian periodicals. Publications from the entire spectrum of the humanities, including peripheral disciplines, are covered. The collaboration of Italian librarians ensures that the journals evaluated provide a representative selection of the current literature in the humanities and all related fields. AIDA is not simply an extract from the IBZ. The titles of articles are sorted and compiled by an Italian-speaking editor. AIDA is therefore an ideal supplement to the IBZ.
Each entry includes information on author, title, subject (in German, English, Italian), journal title, subtitle (year of publication, volume, issue, page number), ISSN, publisher, box number of union catalogue and the Italian catalogue of journals, ZDB-ID, holdings of Italian libraries.
Please note: you may be prompted for a user password and login but if you just click “ok” it will let you into AIDA.
Electronic Enlightenment Trial
The Library has set up a trial to Oxford University Press’ Electronic Enlightenment through October 23, 2010. Please send your comments and suggestions to Claude Potts at cpotts[at]library.berkeley.edu. Here’s the publisher’s description of this scholarly research project of the Bodleian Library at Oxford:
With 58,058 letters and documents and 6,929 correspondents as of September 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. Through EE you can see the ideas and concerns not only of thinkers and scholars, politicians and diplomats, but also butchers and housewives, servants and shopkeepers. With a wealth of personal detail revealed in these personal documents, you can explore as never before the relationships, correspondence networks and movement of ideas, the letters and lives of the early modern world.
Scholarship with added value
Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.
But that’s not all. The EE team has created an ongoing program of expanding, linking and original scholarly research to give you thousands of newly-composed biographical notes and hundreds of thousands internal links and cross-references.
Current facts about Electronic Enlightenment
Content
· 6,929 correspondents
· 44 nationalities from Europe, Asia & the Americas
· 671 occupations
· 58,058 letters and documents
· Information on 54,664 manuscript and 36,206 early edition sources
· 251,515 scholarly annotations
· 11 languages, including English, French, German & Italian
· 1,386 links to and from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
· External links to over 50 other online resources
Functionality
· Search correspondents by name or title, occupation, birth or death date & place
· Search documents by writer or recipient, date or place
· Search sources by country or archive
· Full text search of all documents, sources and notes
· Browse correspondents by surname, occupation or nationality
· Browse documents by decade
· Browse source editions by major author surname or publisher
· Citation formats and citation searching for letters and people
· Citation export to EndNote and RefManager bibliographic software
· Printer-friendly layout — for letters, people and annotations
· User-friendly help pages — context specific
Coming soon!
· Searching for documents by gender of author or recipient
· Social networking links for EE
· Browsing by location of publisher of EE source editions
Free-books via Editorial Catedra
Spanish publisher Cátedra has launched Biblioteca Digital Cátedra which provides free access for a trial period to approximately 50 titles from its back list and that are difficult to find in print. This digital collection is aimed primarily towards the academic community and includes selections from the following important monographic series: Crítica y Estudios literarios, Historia, Arte o Teorema, as well as Letras Hispánicas and Letras Universales.
This first installment of the online book collection includes works by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Emilio Alarcos Yvancos Pozuelo, Lope de Vega, Carmen Martin Gaite, and others.
trial to Grand Corpus des grammaires francaises
Through our institutional partnership with CIFNAL, the Library now has trial access to one of the newest Classiques Garnier Numérique databases. The Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue XIVe-XVIIe siècles brings together in one single database the Corpus des grammaires françaises de la Renaissance, le Corpus des grammaires françaises du XVIIe siècle and the Corpus des remarques sur la langue française (XVIIe siècle) which is virtually every available grammar work from the 14th to the 17th century.
To facilitate more systematic investigation, the three resources that constitute the Grand Corpus make available for instructors, researchers, and students numerous research tools: full-text searching, a thesaurus for authors (5 categories), and titles of works (3 categories), and a thesaurus for citations.
A more detailed description of the Grand Corpus in French is available on the Classiques Garnier Numérique site. The trial will be turned on through October 15, 2011 and feedback can be submitted by email to Claude Potts at cpotts [AT] library.berkeley.edu.