New E-Resources at Northwestern

International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology

This international bibliography registers 10,000 paremiological and phraseological publications from around the world that have appeared during the past two centuries. Every bibliographical reference is followed by one to three lines of alphabetically arranged key-words (names, subjects, titles, and texts of individual proverbs and phrases). – Publisher’s blurb.

Philosophy Compass

Philosophy Compass is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from and current thinking from across the entire discipline. In an age of hyper-specialization, Philosophy Compass provides an ideal starting point for the non-specialist, offering pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, to help them find and interpret the best research in the field. – Publisher’s blurb.

Psychological Reports

Psychological Reports was established in 1955 by R. B. and C. H. Ammons with the intent to provide a publication outlet for the whole field of psychology. Psychological Reports has continued to be a major outlet for empirical, theoretical, mainstream, and alternative views on issues in psychology for more than 50 years. – Publisher’s blurb.

Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History

Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History explores the events, policies, activities, institutions, groups, people, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States. With contributions from scholars in the fields of history and political science, this seven-volume set provides students, researchers, and scholars the opportunity to examine the political evolution of the United States from the 1500s to the present day. – Publisher’s blurb.

Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1898)

Access to this resource is currently on a trial basis through August 23, 2010.

In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. – Publisher’s blurb.

NEGRA Corpus

The NEGRA corpus version 2 consists of 355,096 tokens (20,602 sentences) of German newspaper text, taken from the Frankfurter Rundschau as contained in the CD “Multilingual Corpus 1″ of the European Corpus Initiative. It is based on approx. 60,000 tokens that were tagged for part-of speech at the Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart. This corpus was extended, tagged with part-of-speech and completely annotated with syntactic structures. The corpus was created in the projects NEGRA  (DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 378, Projekt C3) and LINC (Universität des Saarlandes) in Saarbrücken. – Publisher’s blurb.

IDS Research Reports

Institute of Development Studies research reports.  Each issues has special theme and title.

IDS Working Papers

Institute of Development Studies working papers.  Each issues has special theme and title.

Yomidas Rekishikan – ヨミダス歴史館

Database of Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest newspaper publisher in Japan.    Contains in-depth information about Japan through access to more than 10 million articles carried by The Yomiuri Shimbun over the past 135 years.  Contents include photographs of Yomiuri Shimbun pages produced between 1874 and 1989; texts of Yomiuri Shimbun articles published since 1986;  texts of Daily Yomiuri articles published since 1989; and a Japanese-language database featuring about 26,000 contemporary key individuals, their careers and achievements.

Online access is for one concurrent user, please log off when finished.

Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance

The Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance (APJRI) is the premier scholarly journal of risk management and insurance issues of importance to the Asia-Pacific region. – Publisher’s blurb.