New E-Resources at Northwestern

Victorian Popular Culture : Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks

The National Fairground Archive (NFA) is a unique collection of photographic, printed and manuscript material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling showpeople, their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life; and the artefacts and machinery of fairgrounds. Material covers the history of both UK and US fairgrounds, circuses and travelling entertainments.  Materials include rare books and periodicals from the UK, Europe and US; posters; programmes; photographs; postcards and other rare ephemera. It covers the history of travelling shows from both an audience and professional perspective.

Access is restricted to the Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks portion of the website.

Artnet – Price Database for Fine Art & Design

Artnet features a collection of resources for art dealers and art buyers, presented by the Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Includes categories such as artists, galleries and museums.

Price Database for Fine Art & Design is an online database of auction prices.  Select “price database” to log into that section of website.  Log out when finished.

Lexicons of Early Modern English

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700. – Publisher’s blurb.

Choice Reviews Online

Choice Reviews Online provides access to 145,000 Choice reviews, as well as all editorial content from recent issues of Choice.   Online exclusives section contains content that is not included in the magazine. – Publisher’s blurb.

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National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)

The National Technical Reports Library provides indexing and access to a collection of more than two million historical and current government technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service. Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text format.

Jazz Discography

The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. It covers leaders from A to Z and as of January 2008 contains: 34,861 leaders; 181,392 recording sessions; 1,030,109 musician entries and 1,077,503 tune entries.

The period covered by TJD Online is from 1896 to 2008 inclusive. – Publisher’s blurb.

Uniworld

Online version of the print publications: Directory of American firms operating in foreign countries, and: Directory of foreign firms operating in the United States.

“The authoritative source of information on multinational firms operating around the world. U.S. companies listed have a substantial investment in overseas operations–wholly or partially owned subsidiary affiliate or branch [sic]. Non U.S. companies (foreign firms) listed have substantial investment within the United States”–Introductory page. Databases may be searched by country, region, state, keyword, zip code or postal code, industry code, revenue and number of employees. Search results can be viewed in HTML and printed, or downloaded into Microsoft Excel.

19th Century UK Periodicals

The Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals collection covers the period 1800 to 1900. When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles, some of which exist only in a single copy, such is the fragile state of much nineteenth-century printed material. – Publisher’s blurb.

The database will contain over six million pages of nineteenth-century journalism, fully searchable, sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries.   Records for individual titles will be available via NUcat shortly.

Reaxys

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. It is built to support chemists in their daily work with focused and relevant information in chemistry.

Reaxys is the merger of the three prestigious CrossFire databases: CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database which puts all the relevant data at the user’s fingertips. A search across the Reaxys database delivers a single results set and each record provides details excerpted from multiple patent or journal sources.    Reaxys contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties. – Publisher’s blurb.

Black Literature Index

Black Literature Index is the electronic index to the Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827 and 1940. – Publisher’s blurb.