New E-Resources at Northwestern

China, Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980 : Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is based on substantial collections of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library.  In addition we have included a range of rare printed materials including missionary periodicals, atlases and books which help to contextualize the other sources.

The Scope of the collection

This project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. – Publisher’s blurb.

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook is the pre-eminent journal on Central European Jewish history and culture. This well-established publication covers cultural, economic, political, social and religious history, the impact of antisemitism and the Jewish responses to it. – Publisher’s blurb.

Ancient West & East

Ancient West & East is an academic journal devoted to the study of the periphery of the ancient world, its so-called barbarian milieu, the activities thereabouts of Greeks and Romans, and the relations between them and local peoples. Much attention is paid to local societies and cultures and their links with the early Byzantine and Near Eastern civilisations as well as the Graeco-Roman. – Publisher’s blurb.

Archaeological Dialogues

Archaeological Dialogues has become one of the leading journals for debating innovative issues in archaeology. Firmly rooted in European archaeology, it now serves the international academic community for discussing the theories and practices of archaeology today. True to its name, debate takes a central place in Archaeological Dialogues. – Publisher’s blurb.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974

This searchable database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database currently has over 34,000 pages covering subjects in Arts, Music, and Leisure, Civil Rights, Counter-Culture, Law and Government, Mass Media, New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement, Student Activism, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement, etc.

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.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Collection

This collection builds on previously introduced disciplines, adding important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature. When complete, the collection will number at least 120 titles. – Publisher’s blurb.

A list of titles is available at the above link.  Access and searching of individual titles will be available in NUcat and the ER shortly.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II – New editions

Northwestern University Library has access to the latest update of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II.

In addition to over 46,000 new works and 6 million pages of material based on the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO II also provides your institution with a new user interface with a number of new enhancements, some of which are listed below:

• Research Guide section with contextual essays and chronology to serve as a starting point for beginning researchers
• Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents section
• Citation generator and bibliographic citation export functionality
• Expanded download and email features
• Keyword in Context feature from within the results list