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Trial: Brill’s Medieval Reference Library Online
Until February 10, 2017, the Library has trial access to four electronic encyclopedias included in Brill’s Medieval Reference Library:
Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles
Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage
Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
Your feedback on this resource is greatly appreciated. Please contact dorner@berkeley.edu.
Trial: Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 2
The Library has a trial of Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 2 that will run until November 20.
You can find a more detailed description of this collection at http://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=14243#14243.
Access to Part 1 of the Plantation Records was acquired by the Library a few years ago.
Please send your feedback to dorner@berkeley.edu.
Trial: San Francisco Chronicle 1869-1984
The Library has a trial for the NewsBank digital archive of the San Francisco Chronicle, covering 1869-1984. This includes 61 years not covered by our purchase of the ProQuest digitized San Francisco Chronicle.
You can access the paper until November 9 through this link:
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX-NB&s_browseRef=decades/142051F45F422A02/all.xml
Please send your feedback to me at dorner@berkeley.edu.
Trial: Primary source collection – Frontier Life
The California Digital Library has set up a system-wide trial of the online primary source collection Frontier Life, from Adam Matthew.
Frontier Life brings together first hand documents and experiences of frontier settlers across the globe. This multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It ranges across the various colonial frontiers of North America before touching on the settlers of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. You can review more details about document types and source archives here.
The resource will be available until December 15, 2016. Please send your feedback to dorner@berkeley.edu.
Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.
Trial: Shakespeare in Performance
The Library has a trial of the database Shakespeare in Performance, ending October 5, 2016.
Shakespeare in Performance showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
Please send your feedback to dorner@berkeley.edu.
*Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.
Trial: U.S. Jewish Newspaper Collection
The Library has a trial of the U.S. Jewish Newspaper Collection from ProQuest, which includes:
The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)
The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City. In 1903 it merged with the Jewish Messenger. The paper covered many topics of Jewish interest internationally. Many prominent Jewish writers and communal workers in the United States have been contributors to its pages.
The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990)
The Jewish Advocate serves as a primary source of news and information as well as a forum for discussion and debate, providing lines of communication uniting the community and supporting the efforts aimed at reinvigorating and broadening Jewish religious and cultural life.
The American Israelite (1854-2000)
The American Israelite is the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States. The newspaper’s two goals were to spread the principles of Reform Judaism, and to keep American Jews in touch with Jewish affairs and their religious identity.
Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)
The Jewish Exponent has carried news of developments in Israel, efforts to rescue Jews the world over from repressive regimes, and the ever-expanding role of Jews in American public life. Along the way, it has garnered honors each year from the American Jewish Press Association for excellence in Jewish journalism for its news, features, reviews and commentary.
The trial will run through October 7, 2016. Your feedback to dorner@berkeley.edu about the usefulness of this resource would be appreciated.
Trial: The Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000 – access through June 17
The Library has access to a trial of The Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000 through June 17, 2016.
Description from the vendor’s website:
“Launched in 1855, The Telegraph was the first 1d morning paper (The Times was 7d). By 1876, The Telegraph was the largest-selling newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 300,000. The newspaper was directed at a wealthy, educated readership and is commonly associated with traditional Toryism, despite its more ‘liberal’ beginnings. However, this shifted in the late 1870s, when the newspaper began to support British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli over the Eastern Question.
“Under the editorship of poet and Orientalist Edwin Arnold from 1873 to 1899, the newspaper published widely on foreign affairs and foreign cultures. This led to The Telegraph’s coverage of Henry Morton Stanley’s expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone, which it co-sponsored with the New York Herald in 1874. Its dedication to foreign news coverage was evidenced by its employment of several renowned special correspondents over the years; Winston Churchill, who reported from India in 1897, Rudyard Kipling, who braved the trenches of the First World War, and Clare Hollingworth, who, as the first female war correspondent, relayed the start of the Second World War from Poland.
“During the twentieth century, The Telegraph cemented its reputation as a pioneering yet reliable source of news reporting. There was the infamous uncensored interview with Kaiser Wilhelm of 1908, in which the German chancellor successfully alienated Britain, France, Russia, and Japan. In 1942, the newspaper published the cryptic crossword puzzle responsible for recruiting Allied codebreakers during the Second World War.
“The Telegraph’s commitment to lively copy was matched by its desire to position itself at the forefront of journalistic innovation; it published the first crossword to appear in a newspaper in 1925, the first television column in 1935, and became the first British newspaper to launch a website in 1994.
“The publication of The Telegraph is generally seen by press historians as the start of a new era of journalism that emerged following the repeal of the stamp duty, marking the first step towards the mass-market journalism of the Daily Mail. This makes The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 a valuable addition to Gale’s coverage of the ‘quality’ UK press, providing an important alternative voice to its other national UK dailies such as The Times and The Independent.
“The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 has over 1 million pages of content and includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961. The archive offers a fundamental insight into domestic and international affairs and culture over a timespan of almost 150 years.”
Trial: Primary Sources: Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831-1979
Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831-1979 includes over 9,000 pages of facsimile documents on the recent history of the Kurdish people, “tracing early insurgencies, inter-relations with neighboring tribes and other ethnic groups, while examining the territories pertaining to the Kurdish homeland. The object of this work is to supply contemporary documents which place events in their geopolitical context. All relevant documents which could be sourced from the records of the Government of India at the British Library, Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, Colonial Office and Cabinet at the National Archives related to the themes of territory and the struggle for it, for the period have been traced and included.”
Trial access is through 4/8.
Trial: Digital resources related to Civil Rights, Japanese-American Relocation, Farm Workers, and Native Americans
The Library has set up trial access to evaluate four digital collections:
Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
National Farm Worker Ministry: Mobilizing Support for Migrant Workers, 1939-1985
Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
These are all part of a resource called Archives Unbound from Gale Cengage. The company was not able to set up a trial for just these four resources, so all of the collections are available to view.
Available via the same link is another trial resource, Indigenous Peoples: North America, which covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations. The collection includes sources from American and Canadian institutions, tribal newspapers, and Indian-related organizations. The collection also features Indigenous language materials, including dictionaries, Bibles, and primers.
I am particularly interested in your feedback on the resources listed above, but if you see other collections of interest, let me know and I’ll put them on my wish list.
Trial access ends 3/17/16.
Trial: New databases on trial
The Library has set up trials of a number of databases from Brepolis Publishers through November 15th.
The databases can be accessed from the Brepolis main page here: http://www.brepolis.net/
Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale
International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques
Index Religiosus
Patrologia Orientalis Database
Aristoteles Latinus Database
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
Library of Latin Texts Series B
I welcome your feedback.