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Two New Databases of Special Interest to Liberal Arts

2008-02-07T21:54:21Z

The Iter Bibliography is useful for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). It contains "more than 1,000,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 8,707 publications, including 1,707 journals." Right now the "check for full text" is your FindIt@CSU button.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online "provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008." There are currently "more than 114,231 records in this version." Use advanced search to look for words in title, etc.

New Database: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800

2008-01-30T15:59:16Z

Brought to you by the generosity of the Irene Bostrom Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts, Evans contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It contains more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. These are primary source advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

The online collection may be searched by subject and browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language. Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, child rearing, commerce, constitution, education, foreign affairs, medicine, military operations, operas, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, work, and much more.

New Search Platform for History Databases

2008-01-22T17:09:06Z

America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts are now on a different search platform. Already available for a number of months, the new default search software for these two databases is now EBSCO. America: History & Life covers U.S. and Canadian history and culture from prehistory to the present. Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online Now at CSU!

2007-11-02T23:28:56Z

The largest dictionary of the English language is now available 24/7 to CSU affiliates. Look up the meaning of words, find their etymologies (history of the word), search for words by keywords in their definitions, search for words that beginning with a particular suffix, and much more. From their about page:
"The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books."
Take a look! If you cannot think of a word to look up OED will select one (get an entry) for you.

New History Page on Early Modern European History

2007-09-28T15:37:44Z

There is a brand new Web page on Early Modern European History. Find it directly at:
http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/earlymodeuro.html

or via the History Research Guide, http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/ which also features subject pages on:

United States of America (History).
American Studies.
Colorado History.
Elizabethan/Stuart.
Medieval History (Europe & England).
Medieval Middle East History.
Middle Eastern History and U.S. Foreign Relations.
Roman Republic.
Women's Suffrage.
World History.

New Web page on Bronte Sisters

2007-09-06T15:41:59Z

There is a brand new Web page to help students doing research on the Bronte Sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. It can be found at: http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/Brontes.html

It is linked from the English Language & Literature page (one of the Research Guides):
http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/

There are other authors with Web pages about them too:

Chaucer
Dickinson & Wright
William Faulkner
Milton
Flannery O'Connor
Poe
Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens

All these pages let you know where the books are, where to identify journal articles (and what to search), and links to relevant Web pages, annotated. A lot of the Bronte Sisters oeuvre is available online.

Also found on the English Language & Literature page are some literary criticism and book review finding tools:

Finding Literary Criticism in Books
Locating Literary Criticism in Journal Articles
Book Review Indexing Sources

LexisNexis Has New Interface

2007-07-20T22:53:47Z

LexisNexis Academic has a new look. More than that, it has new ways to search

Default General "Easy Search" looks in Major U.S. and World Publications. Checkmark one or more (or click "select all") other categories to search within: Major World Publications (non-English); News Wire Services; TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts; Blogs; Web Publications; Company; SEC Filings; and Legal. Default time frame on this screen is previous 2 years. Search News and the default is the past 3 months. Search Legal and default is all years.

History Databases Will Change Platforms

2007-06-29T17:36:45Z

America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts currently on the ABC-CLIO platform have been sold to EBSCO. Therefore, the software used to search these two databases will change to EBSCO at some point, but not immediately. A message will be added to this blog when CSU starts using the different search software. One nice benefit of the change will be the ability to search not only these two databases at the same time, but the ability to search simultaneously additional history-related databases as well--for example, Social Sciences Abstracts and Humanities International Index.

Who is your blogger?

2007-03-01T15:00:00Z

Now added to the blog is a link to "About Your Blogger" so new visitors can quickly locate information about the Liberal Arts blogger. Your blogger is Naomi Lederer, the primary College Liaison Librarian to the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University. She is the library liaison to five departments in the College: English, History, Speech, Art, and Journalism & Technical Communication. Other librarians who serve as library liaisons to departments in the College of Liberal Arts are Doug Ernest (Music, Theater, & Dance, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy), Allison Cowgill (Sociology, and Political Science), Louise Feldmann (Economics) and Cathy Cranston (Anthropology). You are always welcome to directly contact the librarian (in person, via e-mail, or telephone) who is the liaison to the department, with your research question(s) in that subject area.

New Liberal Arts Blog

2006-10-30T22:47:22Z

A brand new blog at the library has been created. It is under construction right now, so please do not expect a lot of news for the time being. Once it is ready for prime time it will be promoted.