Database trials underway

Summer is a good time for us to explore and evaluate potential new resources. Two trials underway that you may be interested in looking at are the Historical New York Times and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present

The Historical New York Times is being trialled for the History Department. It includes a full image archive of newspaper articles from The New York Times from 1851-2003.

I’ve set up the Orlando trial for the English Department. Orlando provides biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of authors, together with contextual materials relevant to critical and historical readings.

eBrary: Books from your desktop

We’ve recently subscribed to a large collection of online books: eBrary.

eBrary is an enourmous resource, and includes over 3200 online books in the “Language and Literature” category alone. To use the collection you’ll need to download the eBrary Reader from the eBrary home page. Books from eBrary will be included in the LRC’s catalogue in the near future. For now, you can search directly through the eBrary catalogue.
If you have any questions about this resource, please contact me!

More LHCADL databases

The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library has finished its negotiations with Proquest (a vendor of several databases). I’m happy to announce that we’ve received 4 more new database subscriptions from Proquest, including Literature Online (LION). More info about this database can be found at http://il.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/literature_online.shtml, and I can forward on a title list of journals to anyone interested. You’ll soon be able to access LION through the alphabetical database list on the LRC’s website.

New Databases in the LRC

We’ve welcomed in the new year with a substantial new set of resources! The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL) project has negotiated the licenses to a huge number of databases on behalf of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions. For more information about the LHCADL you can visit their webpage. Resources funded through this initiative will be identified by the LHCADL logo next to the listing on our website.

Some new databases relevant to the English Department will be available shortly. These include:

Literature Resource Center (Thompson Gale)

An interdisciplinary approach to literature which includes journals, essays, links to websites, biographies, author portraits, and definitions of literary terms from a global perspective.

This database includes full text articles from over 280 journals, 70,000 critical essays, 7000 work overviews, 5000 links to authoritative websites, 140,000 author biographies, 3000 author portraits and 10,000 definitions of literary terms.

Shakespeare Collection (Thompson Gale)

Comprehensive, cross-searchable coverage of Shakespeare’s work, critical reception, textual history, performance history and cultural and historical context.

The Shakespeare Collection includes the complete Arden Shakespeare (texts, notes, introductions and commentaries), and additional primary sources, historical editions, and contemporary criticism.

Bibliography of Native North Americans (Ebsco)

Bibliography of Native North Americans

(BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.

BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.