Tag: Trials
Current Trial: Struggle For Freedom: Southern Africa
A trial of Struggle For Freedom: Southern Africa is available to the UC Berkeley community for one month beginning today, January 18th 2018. The URL to access the trial is http://www.aluka.org/struggles
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
The resource consists of 76 different collections of more than 20,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.
The materials in Struggles for Freedom: South Africa were selected with the guidance of national advisory committees consisting of leading scholars, archivists, and public intellectuals in six African countries along with scholars from outside the region.
Please contact Adam Clemons at aclemons@berkeley.edu with your feedback about this resource.
Trial: Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection
The Library has a trial of EBSCOhost’s Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection series 1 and 2, lasting through February 28, 2018.
The Series 1 database includes articles and historical books about 17th to 20th century Latino-Hispanic history, literature, and culture, as well as primary sources such as pamphlets and broadsides. 80% of the materials are in Spanish, but are fully indexed in both Spanish and English. Click here to explore the collection, which includes handwritten as well as printed resources.
The Series 2 focuses in more detail on Hispanic civil rights, religious movements, and Latina authors over the past 100 years in North America. Coverage includes 100 digitized newspapers, 300 manuscript collections/papers, and rare books, again indexed in both English and Spanish. Click here to explore this collection,
The collections include full-text which can be searched, page through, and downloaded as a PDF.
Please contact me at dorner@berkeley.edu with your feedback.
Cairn ebooks
The Library will have trial access through April 15 to the complete collection of ebooks on Cairn, an online platform for interdisciplinary journals and books published in France and Belgium. Some representative publishers include Presses Universitaires de France, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Presses de Science Po, Le Seuil, Tallandier, La Découverte, Karthala, De Boeck Supérieur, Picard, Kimé, and more.
Cairn.info, created in 2005 by a small group of publishers, offers the most comprehensive collection of journals available online in the French language. The project, supported by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre national du livre, makes available an increasing number of scholarly journals and now books in the various fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Feedback can be sent to cpotts [at] berkeley.edu.
Current Trial: Churchill Archive
A trial of the Churchill Archive is available to the UC Berkeley community until April 21, 2017. The URL to access the trial is www.churchillarchive.com.
The Churchill Archive includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.
To learn more about using the archive, there is a video available at: http://www.churchillarchive.com/take-a-tour
Please contact Jennifer Dorner at jdorner@berkeley.edu with your feedback about this resource.
Current Trial: Early European Books
Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century (1450s-1701), offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources. This resources focuses on European languages other than English, including Dutch, Danish, Italian, Latin, and French. Of interest to book historians, the scans are of the entire physical object and pages (rather than just the text), including marginalia and binding. You can search by country of publication, language, page features (illustration, musical notation), and source library, and you can include historical and linguistic variants in your search. Books can be browsed in an online Flash-based viewer or downloaded as JPEGs or PDFs.
The trial will last until March 16th, 2017.
Please send your comments and feedback to Stacy Reardon (sreardon at berkeley)
Current Trial: The Digital Karl Barth Library
The Digital Karl Barth Library – http://bart.alexanderstreet.com
The Digital Karl Barth Library supports a new generation of research into the works of one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians. The collection includes the original German version and the English translation of Karl Barth’s magnum opus, The Church Dogmatics, in its entirety. Also included is Barth’s Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings.
For more information about the content included in this collection, click HERE.
For general help, including navigation instructions and search tips, click HERE.
The trial will run through March 8th.
Please send your comments and feedback to jdorner (at) library.berkeley.edu.
Trial resource: English Historical Documents
The Library has a trial of the digitized version of English Historical Documents through August 31, 2016.
Key features of English Historical Documents Online include:
- Instant access to over 5,000 historical documents
- Highly discoverable content through Quick, Advanced and Faceted search
- Search refinement through adding and removing search filters directly on the results page
- Explore content by Date, Historiography and Historical methods, Population and environment, Society, Economic affairs and technology, Intellectual, cultural and the arts, Religious belief, practice and organization, Politics, administration and law, Military, Foreign affairs, Status entries and Source types
- Personalized login for individual users: bookmark entries, and save and manage searches
- Download, print, share and citation tools
Please use the following to view the FAQ: http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com/help-and-information/faqs
NOW ON TRIAL: Classical Performance in Video from from Alexander Street.
Classical Performance in Video is the largest and most comprehensive video resource for the study of classical music. Users experience classical music through 1,600 performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, as well as masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews. Video as a learning tool provides a rich experience for music students, and all patrons use the multimedia tools in this collection to research, analyze, learn, and enjoy the classical music genre.
- For more information about the content included in this collection, click HERE.
- For general help, including navigation instructions and search tips, click HERE.
- Check out Resource Center to find helpful information, complimentary services and marketing tools.
Our trial runs from August 31st to October 1st.
Please send your comments and feedback to John Shepard.
NOW ON TRIAL: GIDEON: Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network
Updated on a continuous basis, Gideon is a great resource for global infectious diseases, including worldwide distribution, disease outbreak information, and surveys. The Infectious Diseases module has 5 sections: Diagnosis, Diseases, Travel, Drugs, and Vaccines. The Microbiology module covers Bacteria, Mycobacteria, and Yeasts. Content comes from peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts of major international meetings, and other gray literature.
Our trial runs from January 23rd to March 6th.
Please send your comments and feedback to Debbie Jan.
NOW ON TRIAL: Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library
The authority on world dress
The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. For a full list of content click here.
Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.
The Berg Fashion Library will be updated at least three times a year.
Our trial runs from 23 January through 28 February 2015.
Send comments and feedback to Kathryn Wayne.