New E-Resources at Northwestern

Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States

Focuses on the substance of American law, the processes that produce its legal principles, and the history of the Supreme Court, from its creation to the present. Overview essays address the history of such topics as citizenship, due process, Native Americans, racism, and contraception, emphasizing the social context of each and the social and political pressures that shaped interpretation. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development

Examines three key life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how enduring experiences, as well as transitions and events such as childcare, education, stress, marriage, career, addiction, friendship, parenthood, disease, spirituality, and retirement influence the individual’s life course. The life stages examined are: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life. -  Publisher’s blurb.

Historische Zeitschrift

Die seit 1859 erscheinende Historische Zeitschrift ist eine der großen international verbreiteten wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften. Seit ihrer Gründung ist sie unabhängig von Subventionen, weltanschaulichen Gruppierungen und Verbänden und gilt als repräsentatives Organ der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft. – Publisher’s blurb.

(This historical magazine published since 1859 is one of the large international scientific technical periodicals. Since its establishment it is independent of subsidies, world-descriptive groupings and federations and is considered as a representative organ of the German-language science of history.)

Text in German.

Sociologia Internationalis

Sociologia Internationalis is an “International journal for sociology and social psychology.”  Articles are published in English, French, German, or Spanish, with summaries in English.

Access to this resource is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Medieval Travel Writing

Provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing. The core is a collection of medieval manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. The manuscripts are from the British Library; Bodleian Library; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Cambridge University Library; Trinity College, Cambridge; Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen; the Beinecke Library at Yale University and about 15 other Libraries and Archives.

Records for individual titles will soon be input into NUcat.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.

Archive Finder

Formerly known as ArchivesUSA, Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM.    ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,500 repositories and more than 161,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository’s holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.

Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods

Covers all major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence

Provides research-supported information to clarify critical issues and educate the public about different forms of interpersonal violence, their incidence and prevalence, theoretical explanations, public policy initiatives, and prevention and intervention strategies. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage. – Publisher’s blurb.