Direct access to ‘Pages of the Past’ now restored

Finally! ProQuest has gotten their act together and provided us with a direct link to this database. All links should now work as they once did.

ScienceDirect downtime coming up

From the vendor:

This message is to inform you that ScienceDirect (but not Scopus) will be unavailable for a planned period of downtime on Sunday, March 11, 2007 for approximately 7 hours starting at 01:00 AM EST (06:00 AM GMT). This is to adjust the system to take account the change to Daylight Saving Time in the United States. We hope that by providing this advance notice we can help minimise any inconvenience to you and to your ScienceDirect users.

The system was successfully upgraded last Saturday. Our technical team is working as hard as they possibly can to eliminate the unforeseen difficulties which some of our customers have experienced since in accessing ScienceDirect and Scopus. We apologise to those customers who have been affected by these difficulties.

Chicago Manual of Style now available online.

Please note that the The The Chicago Manual of Style is now up and running.  You may wish to update select pathfinders to include this resource.

In addition to the standard citation guidelines, The Chicago Manual of Style includes nifty tools such as sample forms, letters and style sheets.  Check out the section on the Proofreaders’ Marks. There’s also a section that provides Book and Journal Publishing Diagrams.  I hope that this will entice you to go take a look.

Catherine

A variety of new TRIALS

A bunch of new trials, all of which last to the end of the month at least:

• American Periodicals Series Online
  “Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.”
• Historical Annual Reports
  “Over 800 companies’ annual reports (1844-current) available through searchable pdf images. The collection includes digital reproductions of over 1.3 million pages found in more than 43,000 reports. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date. Cross-searchable to other historical periodical databases.”
  • (For both of the above databases, click on the ‘Select multiple databases’ link, then scroll down to almost the bottom of the page to get to the actual links.)
• British Periodicals
  “provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.”
• The Gerritsen Collection – Women’s History Online, 1543-1945
  “In the late 1800’s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women’s rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women’s history in the world.”
• Periodicals Archive Online
  “… the new name for PCI Full Text — an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas”
• Three additions to the list of Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections (click on the link and scroll down the page to find the links to the individual collections):
  • Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare — “Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”
  • Literary Theory — “traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to Judith Butler. It contains over 1,000 works by more than 350 writers, including: formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary theory.”
  • 20th Century Drama — “When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present. Release Six includes 1,250 plays by authors such as Amiri Baraka, Noël Coward, Susan Glaspell, John Godber, Beth Henley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Eduardo Machado, Eugene O’Neill, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, John Osborne, Sean O’Casey, Terence Rattigan, Bernard Shaw, Derek Walcott, Wendy Wasserstein and August Wilson.”