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This trial is available only on campus. It will be available until April 30, 2009. Feedback on this trial can be sent to hjacobs at uwindsor dot ca
www.literarymanuscriptsberg.amdigital.co.uk

Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library

The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown.

A broad range of authors from across the nineteenth century make this an essential research tool for all scholars and students researching Victorian literature.

Most of these unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented in this collection include:

Matthew Arnold
The Brontës
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
George Gissing
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Ruskin
Alfred Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
This outstanding collection will prove an invaluable source for textual analysis of Victorian literature. Unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.

Researchers and students can trace the close interconnection of these Victorian authors – and subsequently their texts – through the mass of personal correspondence between them, revealing the close circles in which the Victorian literary world moved. This resource is of immense importance to those researching the business of Victorian publishing, documenting the relationship between writers and their publishers through correspondence and financial and legal documents.

Essays by leading scholars will suggest approaches to the material, provide textual analysis, and offer historical accounts of the Victorian publishing industry and literary culture.

Part I: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
Containing 380,000 facsimile manuscript documents linked to fully-searchable Calendar entries, Part I delivers the complete collection of State Papers Domestic for this era. Every facet of early modern Government is detailed including social and economic affairs.

This is groundbreaking new online resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe, reunites State Papers Domestic and Foreign with the Registers of the Privy Council and State Papers in the British Library. The collection creates a new backbone for research and teaching in politics, government, social, economic and religious history. The project benefits from a close partnership with The National Archives, London and draws upon the expertise of an Advisory Board of academics.

Trial ends April 8, 2009.

This trial is not available off-campus.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to Heidi Jacobs.

The Guide to Reference, formerly Guide to Reference Books, has a long history in print as a core publication of librarianship. This new Guide is the first to be published electronically and the first to engage the Web as a medium for reference publishing and services. The Guide’s interactive features for lists and notes afford possibilities for reference department activities such as collection weeding, and reference-desk training. The ability to export records will make the compilation of local instructional materials easier.

Users will want to set up their own user profiles so they can use interactive features like creating their own lists, notes, etc. To do that they need to click on the “Create a Profile” link on the homepage to access the full content.

Trial ends April 6, 2009. This trial is NOT available off-campus.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to Bob Elliott.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and
Post.

ProQuest Newsstand-Black Newspapers is a collection of current newspapers providing access to news from 1989-present in a mix of full text and abstracts & indexes (A&I) only. Includes: Afro-American Red Star, Call & Post (A&I), Chicago Defender, Houston Post (A&I), Michigan Chronicle, Muslim Journal (A&I), New Journal & Guide (A&I), New York Amsterdam News, and the Los Angeles Sentinel.

Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives with titles dating from 1990. ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of nearly 1.6 million articles from more than 300 publications offering both national and regional coverage. The voices of the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities can be heard. Titles include Asian Week, Jewish Exponent, Seminole Tribune, and many more.

Trial ends February 28, 2009. Please leave a comment or send an email to the liaison librarian, Heidi Jacobs.

HistoryMakers [an addition to Black Studies Centre which Leddy already has] consists of a collection of one hundred oral history videos from The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. Each video is two to three hours in length and accompanied by complete, searchable transcripts.

The interviews present full accounts of the person’s early life, family history, education, and professional work. The interviews are of contemporary African Americans, many of whom were the first to break various barriers in business, science, medicine, education, and government. This collection includes interviews of Barack Obama, Reverend Al Sharpton, Gordon Parks, John Lewis, John H. Johnson, Julian Bond, Nikki Giovanni, John Hope Franklin, Terry MacMillian, Isaac Hayes, Alvin Poussaint, and many more.

This trial ends February 28th, 2009. Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the liaison librarian, Heidi Jacobs.

In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists. This edition contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world’s leading economists.

This trial ends December 31st, 2008 and is NOT available off campus.
Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Librarian responsible for Economics jfoster@uwindsor.ca.

SYB is an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs. It has a reputation as an indispensable reference tool and has been published continuously since 1864, through two world wars, without missing an edition. It was ranked by Library Journal as one of the top 20 best reference resources of the millennium.

The scope of the book is broad, with expanded coverage of history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country. This resource provides extensive reading lists and web links to facilitate further research.

This trial ends December 31st, 2008 and is NOT available off campus.
Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Digital Services Librarian jsoutter@uwindsor.ca.

Mosby’s Nursing Skills is an online skills and procedures reference system offering the most comprehensive combination of skills and multimedia content available. Over 830 skills from leading reference works in nursing are available, including:

* Perry & Potter, Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 6e
* Proehl, Emergency Nursing Procedures, 4e
* AACN, Procedure Manual for Critical Care, 5e
* AACN, Procedure Manual for Pediatric Acute and Critical Care
* Wong’s, Nursing Care of Infant’s and Children

This resource is organized to support nurse managers and educators, enabling administrators and specialists to: establish specific learning criteria for the nursing staff; evaluate individual learning needs, create assignments and track the process of staff against established standards; customize instructional material to align with the specific policies and standards of the organization; create a variety of reports to measure individual and group performance and post announcements for hospital staff.

Trial ends: December 31, 2008
This trial is not available off-campus.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the Librarian for Nursing at smunro@uwindsor.ca.

Available until November 30, 2008, the John Johnson Collection consists of more than 65,000 items and offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

Housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera in the UK. It was assembled by John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956), Printer to the University, who was visionary in his preservation of Britain’s vulnerable paper heritage. It contains a high proportion of unique material, which has remained largely hidden to scholars and researchers until now.

Please leave a comment or send your feedback to the English liaison librarian at hjacobs@uwindsor.ca.

We have a 2 week trial for Marquis Who’s who on the web, September 15, 2008 – September 26, 2008. This database now contains all their print Who’s Who products with coverage back to 1985. It also includes the digitized version of Who was Who – which goes back much further. During the trial, we have only 1 simultaneous user; there are also restrictions on downloading.

UPDATE: This trial has now ended.